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Book Review: Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System

The IPKat

In Chapter 4, Beatriz Conde Gallego debates whether owners of standard-essential patents (SEPs) must grant licences in “license to all” or “access to all” approaches. Chapter 6, authored by Ryan Abbott, ponders whether current patentability criteria may fit AI-generated inventions.

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Gilead and ViiV Healthcare Settle Global Patent Dispute for Over $1B USD

IPilogue

This article delves into the legal doctrines that support the parties’ claims and the overarching strategy to their settlement. The doctrine of equivalents prevents parties from circumventing literal infringement by making minor variations to a patented invention. In the end, settlement was in the best interests of both parties.

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

When an inventor is granted exclusive rights over their inventions for a specific period of time, it provides a return on their investment in terms of time, resources and capital. The idea that a specific invention will allow the inventor to reap benefits has a direct effect on incentivising inventors to create and invent more.

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The Fintech Revolution And The Its Adoption By Financial Regulatories

IP and Legal Filings

Therefore, credit cards are considered the first invention towards financial technology. Since then, modifications and inventions have resulted in its evolution in various sectors ranging from Banking and Finance to its introduction in our everyday services such as online grocery shopping, cab service, food service etc. Act, 2007. [ii]

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Four Tet’s Successful Royalty Battle: Are Changes Coming in the Music Industry for Royalty Payment?

IPilogue

Four Tet had signed with Domino in 2001 ; a time where CDs were still popular and long before the invention and popularization of music streaming. When Four Tet’s contract was signed in 2001, these standard licensing terms were different for the music industry. Sales vs Licences. Domino also paid Four Tet £56,921.08 Future Impacts.

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Dish Network Hit with $469 Million Verdict in Patent Lawsuit Surrounding “AutoHop” Feature

LexBlog IP

The best inventions cure a historical illness. In sum, however, it tries to determine what the parties would have agreed was a “reasonable royalty” had they hypothetically negotiated a licensing agreement at the moment of first infringement. So the question becomes—would DISH really have paid $42.6

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Methods of Commercializing Intellectual Property – Part I

Intepat

Things to Keep in Mind Maintaining Secrecy – Only inventions and designs which are not previously disclosed can be registered for patents and industrial designs. Further, such sale may also conflict with the existing licensing agreements with regard to the concerned intellectual property, should there be any.