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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

Intepat

It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Patents give you the much-needed competitive edge in the market. Firstly, it prevents other organizations from copying the invention, thereby lowering the risk of competitors in the market.

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

While one aims to regulate and ensure that markets operate efficiently in a fair and competitive manner, the other aims to grant a certain level of protection which may be considered to have monopolistic tendencies. After the period of protection, the inventions and information surrounding it fall into the public domain.

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Patent Search and its Types in India

Kashishipr

A patent refers to an exclusive right granted by the patent authority of a nation to the inventor or applicant of a unique invention. Patent Rights exclude others in the industry or market from manufacturing, using, selling, distributing, or importing the patented product or process. 2) Patentability/Novelty Search.

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IPSC Closing Plenary Session

43(B)log

Equality: in discussion of equality, in Tasini, Roche, and even Kirtsaeng—the first two seem to have resurrected the romantic author not as creator but as transactor: each case claims to protect small creator/inventor, with little awareness of practical effects. Institutional precarity: Declining trust in markets, not in IP law.

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Patents And Freedom To Operate

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

After an invention is patented, the inventor has exclusive rights over the invention. However, getting a patent is not enough to sell your product in the market. Patents last for a period of 20 years after which they are available in the public domain and can be freely used by others.

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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The main policy objective behind the consultation is “ to incentivise investment in AI development and to promote the use of AI for public benefit, whilst enabling competitive markets, consumer choice and fair access to IP-protected goods for the benefit of society ”. Option 1: expanding the definition of “inventor”.

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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

This makes the term ‘prior art’ an important concept for inventors to understand. It’s the legal term for ‘thing that is exactly like my thing that was in the public before I made my thing.’ If your invention is already on the market, you may be able to change it enough to still get your patent.

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