The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Usually, the inventor is under constant fear of leakage of information relating to the invention as a certain disclosure has to be made to the manufacturer. It is for this reason that inventors prefer signing a binding Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Why Should an Inventor File a Provisional Patent Application?

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Intellectual property rights are statutory rights given to creators, inventors, and artists. Black’s Law Dictionary defines intellectual property as “a commercially valuable product of the human intellect, in a concrete or abstract form such as a copyrightable work, a protectable trademark, a patentable invention, or a trade secret.”

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

IP in different forms like trademarks, copyright, patents, and industrial designs acts as a seal of distinctiveness, quality, and authority for every other company. In the present era, working business environments have become significantly dynamic.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

There are several types of IPRs that startups should be aware of: Patents: Patents protect new inventions and grant exclusive rights to the inventor for a limited period. These rights encompass various forms of intangible assets, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Firstly, trademarks ensure brand exclusivity.

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Corsearch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Identify the type of infringement Facebook will remove listings and posts that infringe your intellectual property, covering five categories: counterfeits, copyright infringement, brand abuse (which includes other forms of trademark infringement), design infringement, and patent infringement.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2022

A patent refers to an exclusive right granted by the patent authority of a nation to the inventor or applicant of a unique invention. There are five types of patent searches that a patent applicant or inventor can perform, and they are as follows: 1) Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search. Types of Patent Search.

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Kashishipr

MAY 5, 2021

Patent trolls, as per this point of view, do well to the economy as well as to the inventor since litigation cost has the potential to leave the inventor bankrupt. Point of View 2: Patent Trolls do Hurt Innovation. It has been found that the decline in R&D expenditure is as much as -48% for a large firm and -19% for a small firm.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

UK Supreme Court Confirms No Patent for “AI-invented” Inventions Image from here On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. SpicyIP intern Vedika discusses this development. and Ors. ,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. The case clarifies that the bar on arbitrability of trademark disputes is not an absolute one. Golden Tobacco Ltd [Delhi High Court]. Jorawer Singh Mundy v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 2, 2023

An inventor who can establish that his or her creation meets parameters for innovation, non-obviousness, and utility will be awarded a patent, which is a compendium of exclusive rights.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

and the socio-legal opportunism of the defendants’ arguments for condonable trademark infringement, set in the backdrop of the ongoing global pandemic. s copyright and registered trademark by thrusting its deceptively similar goods and flooding the high-in-demand but low-in-knowhow market, with its imitation products.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Patents are the most important way in which inventors can protect their inventions. In certain situations, inventors try and push for an extension of the protection period through the process of evergreening. Some governments and governing bodies have tried to curb such practices.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It would mean that the genes of another would bear profits to the researcher/inventor even if such invention has been conceived without prior permission of the one possessing the gene, as was seen in the case where Mr. John Moree’s spleen was removed to patent a cell line enriched in T-lymphocytes to treat cancer and AIDS.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It was much later in 1945 when the Supreme Court recognized that such unqualified conduct of an inventor amounts to damage of public interest. Evolution of the Defense of Inequitable Conduct. The doctrine is routed in the doctrine of unclean hands that states that “he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.”

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Kashishipr

MARCH 9, 2022

Such contributions save a lot of time and effort of millions of other inventors and innovators who put their best foot forward to build greater and better things on top of the said technologies. It not only helps such innovators and inventors in sustaining financially but encourages them to continue contributing to the open-source community.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Furthermore, the coming of new entrants into the market adversely affects the market share of the already existing innovators and inventors. Without any doubt, winning such court battles can provide a competitive edge; however, losing them can harm the brand image and goodwill.

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Kashishipr

JULY 28, 2021

The same is a concern that is also often brought up by those inventors who try to design around the invention in good faith. Concluding Remarks. The doctrine of equivalence may suffer from the previously mentioned drawbacks; however, its importance cannot be denied.

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Kashishipr

JULY 7, 2021

The disclosure of patent information means that rivals can invent around the said patent to harm the inventor. Therefore, where the information is vulnerable and has the chance of discovery through research by another, the patent option should be sought. The same may be critical in the case of trade secrets.

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