IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Last September, a bipartisan pair of Senators introduced the Pride in Patent Ownership Act, which, if passed, would add greatly-needed transparency to our patent system. The legislation would require patent owners to disclose their identity to the U.S.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 3, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office establishes that inventions created using artificial intelligence may be patentable if a human also significantly contributes, but ownership and legal rights in these types of patents are different issues that require further assessment, says Karl Gross at Leydig Voit.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tokenization refers to the process of creating digital tokens that represent ownership of an asset. The assets can be physical or digital, and tokenization allows for fractional ownership of assets, making it easier for investors to buy and sell them. Investors can buy and sell the tokens, providing liquidity for the IP asset.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 17, 2022

The fantastical and mind-blowing virtual worlds of Ready Player One and Sword Art Online may soon be within reach as the patent race for virtual reality technology heats up between major companies like Disney , Microsoft , and Sony. Companies are racing to patent the most comfortable options for VR hardware. .

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2024

In today’s intellectual property (IP) ecosystems, significant challenges persist in managing, protecting, and leveraging IP assets effectively. Among the major issues in IP business operations are the time-intensive and costly processes involved in managing IP, exacerbated by uncertainty in data accuracy and competition distrust.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Employees are not necessarily always renumerated for their patented or patentable inventions. Therefore, employers are advised to take a number of steps to avoid disruptive issues over the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Employees are not necessarily always renumerated for their patented or patentable inventions. Therefore, employers are advised to take a number of steps to avoid disruptive issues over the ownership of intellectual property created by their employees.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you own IP in Colombia or abroad and are seeking financing and cash for your projects or company, this article is for you. Intellectual property (IP) is an increasingly important asset for businesses in today’s knowledge-based economy. This is where IP finance comes in.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

The encouragement towards innovation is legalized under Intellectual copyrights patents and trademarks Rights are provided by the states around the globe. The IP dive pertains to all the original creations of humankind inclusive of technical or any scientific innovation. Unlike patents, trademark protection is held indefinitely.

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you own IP in Colombia or abroad and are seeking financing and cash for your projects or company, this article is for you. Intellectual property (IP) is an increasingly important asset for businesses in today’s knowledge-based economy. This is where IP finance comes in.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This week in Washington IP events, the Senate IP Subcommittee convenes a hearing on Tuesday afternoon to debate the Pride in Patent Ownership Act, which would increase requirements on patent owners to disclose changes in patent ownership.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an Executive Business Meeting in which they will discuss the Pride in Patent Ownership Act, while several Senate subcommittees hold hearings related to American manufacturing, diversity in entrepreneurship, and increasing access to capital in underserved markets.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate the ownership of inventions generated by artificial intelligence systems.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. The announcement follows the dramatic rise in mainstream attention on NFTs due to their wildly fluctuating value, which has in turn created a great amount of confusion surrounding IP rights to NFTs and the underlying digital files used to create them. On November 23, the U.S.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 19, 2024

A board of administrative patent judges has decided to shut down its review of a data communications network patent that a Finnish businessman claimed to own, after a federal court in California ruled earlier this year that he had transferred the patent nearly two decades ago to a startup that eventually went bankrupt.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While leveraging generative AI presents potential problems such as loss of ownership of patents and other intellectual properties, a series of practice tips, including ensuring that the technology is used as a supplementary tool and is not contributing to invention conception, can help mitigate those concerns, say Mackenzie Martin and Bryce Bailey (..)

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IPilogue

MARCH 29, 2022

This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Trends and Challenges in Canada’s IP Ownership and a Collective’s Role in Addressing these Challenges.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you are a policy-maker, prospective business partner or investor, IP Australia wants you to know that a useful way to identify small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with high growth potential is to look at their IP activity. The study finds that, on average, SMEs that own IP rights (IPRs) are 3.5

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is at legal odds with Moderna, claiming that Moderna neglected to add three NIH scientists to Moderna’s patent application on a principal COVID-19 vaccine.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Delaware's top judge is set to hold another hearing next week in an investment company's fight against his controversial disclosure requirements, which could torpedo one of the firm's billion-dollar lawsuits against Intel. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2024

In today’s highly competitive business environment, safeguarding intellectual property (IP) is of paramount importance. Two key methods for the same are patents and trade secrets, offering different approaches, advantages, and risks. Patents offer strong legal protection but come with high costs and public disclosure.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The owner of various router patents shot back at a San Francisco software company's arguments that it isn't actually the owner of the intellectual property at issue, saying those arguments are waived.

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Patently-O

MARCH 12, 2023

Smart & Biggar , a firm that includes 100+ Canadian patent attorneys and agents (most of whom are also registered with the USPTO) was purchased by the Australian company IPH Limited. The IP Agency Practice apparently “does not practice law” and therefore is not controlled by the lawyer-ownership rule.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

David Vaver is the Acting Director of IP Osgoode and a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. Section 34.1(1)

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Patently-O

AUGUST 28, 2023

IPH’s latest acquisition is the Canadian IP firm Ridout & Maybee for $65 million Canadian dollars. This comes just 10 months after IPH purchased Canada’s largest IP firm, Smart & Biggar. IPH’s strategy is to dominate secondary IP markets like Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. the “lion’s share” cases), and we see that the notion of what an “author” even is is highly nuanced.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

IP transactions face difficulties when inventor employees leave a company, raising questions as to whether their inventions are owned by the company. Often, the type of employee and the jurisdiction in question are key factors.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

One Katnews leads to another, especially if IP-related. Let’s see what happening in the IP blogosphere this week:- Trade Marks Online trade channels have become a substantial aspect of many brand owners’ business. including the ownership of IP thus created.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 3, 2021

While the recently proposed Pride in Patent Ownership Act would bolster opportunities for patent licensees, it would also impose increased costs and regulations on small business and entrepreneur patent owners, so legislators should further consider the balance among rightsholders to ensure a fair innovation system, says Jon Seppelt at Dykema.

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Sander Law

MARCH 29, 2023

What are Intellectual Property (IP) Rights? Ownership Just as you can own physical property, like a house, you can be the legal owner of IP (e.g. Exclusivity A legal right, as the IP owner, to use and exploit the IP and to prohibit others from using and exploiting the IP. Interested in registering your IP?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Another week, another review of the latest news from the surrounding IP blogs! Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for use on cosmetics. PATENTS Prof. Dr. Thomas Jaeger, European law expert at the University of Vienna, was interviewed on the Kluwer Patent Blog about the unitary patent system and gave his opinion on this topic.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 24, 2022

When do patents and trademarks overlap? Everyone once in awhile, a client may have IP rights that involve both patents and trademarks. When the two types of IP overlap, it helps to have a patent and trademark attorney that can carefully navigate pending IP applications to avoid forfeiting rights.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Student researchers are needed to assist in the preparation of arguments for the ground-breaking DABUS AI patent application in Canada. Stephen Thaler have garnered worldwide attention when patent applications naming DABUS as the sole inventor were filed in several national patent offices.

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IPilogue

MARCH 28, 2022

This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. I attended the 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference’s second session on diversity in intellectual property law.

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The IPKat

MARCH 3, 2024

The IPKat is curled up beside the warm glow of the latest IP intrigue, events and purr-spectives. 6 March 2024: High-Level Webinar for IP Practitioners in India The image was generated by DALL·E, using Kat Tian's prompt. Lecturer in IP Law at the University of Liverpool Deadline for application: 20 March 2024. Book here.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

But any company preparing to sell within the next five years should consider the more common IP issues that arise during the legal due diligence process. IP Ownership Nearly all purchase agreements require the seller to warrant that it owns or licenses the intellectual property necessary for operation of the business.

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