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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Indian Copyright Act, 1957 – sections 30 to 32 provide for licensing. It allows for both voluntary and compulsory licensing. Intellectual Property Rights Protection IP licensing is an essential element of technology transfer.

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Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights

LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2022

While no agency has exercised these march-in rights, contractors should understand that the funding agency retains the right to compel a license on any subject invention to the United States or, in certain circumstances, to a third party. What is a Small Business for Federal Funding Purposes. Patent rights under federally funded research.

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is a constant debate of balancing the monopolistic rights against the right of public access to essential commodities like pharmaceuticals and medical products. This is where the concept of compulsory licensing gains popular attention. What is Compulsory Licensing? Reasons for Granting Compulsory License.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Identification of any publication, sale, offer for sale, or public use of the subject invention, or publication of the invention. If the subject invention was submitted for publication, it should also indicate whether the invention was accepted for publication.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

WPL demonstrated that the SAS Language should be filtered because it is open and free for public use. Digital Media Licensing Association, Dramatists Guild of America, Romance Writers of America, Songwriters Guild of America, Textbook & Academic Authors Association.

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For the first time since FDA licensed the first biosimilar, Sandoz’s Zarxio ® (filgrastim-sndz), in 2015, the United States saw a decrease in annual biosimilar approvals in 2020. Legislation Relating to Biologics and Biosimilars. BPCIA Litigation. Antitrust Litigation. Post-Grant Challenges at the PTAB. Conclusion.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Although previously no provisions and/or case law or licensing schemes addressing news aggregation existed in Greece, and despite the fact that the new right granted to press publishers by the EU has attracted severe criticism (see e.g., Reto Hilty, Valentina Moscon et al., 2121/1993 on “Related Rights”, just after Art.

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Keeping Your Data Safe: The Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge

U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Following the final algorithm sprint, teams whose algorithms had been validated as differentially private were invited to make their source code open-source with an appropriate license. . Because these datasets can now satisfy differential privacy, they can be used by departments to make better decisions that could have life-saving impacts.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

But the Texas courts found no taking, reasoning that nothing was taken from the photographer as he still had the right to use, and license others to use, his photographs. ” When a governmental entity infringes, it is using the inventor’s, or the author’s, creation without license or payment.

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

Fashion companies should be aware that they may need to obtain a license to, or ownership of, the copyright from the photographer. A novel design is entitled to a patent unless it is has been (1) described in a printed publication; (2) in public use; or (3) on sale more than one year prior to the date of the application of the patent. [9].

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

Fashion companies should be aware that they may need to obtain a license to, or ownership of, the copyright from the photographer. A novel design is entitled to a patent unless it is has been (1) described in a printed publication; (2) in public use; or (3) on sale more than one year prior to the date of the application of the patent. [9].

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The US’ Review of March-in Rights, and Some Questions on an Indian Counterpart

SpicyIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

According to the NIST, the US govt invests approximately $115 billion in R&D through various universities, non-profits, and businesses. March-in rights are provisions that allow the government to require a license for inventions stemming from this investment, upon the fulfilment of certain conditions.

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Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

The IPKat

AUGUST 25, 2023

Story 5 (Of FAIR, CC0 and release of datasets): Many data science projects result in the creation of labelled datasets which in turn necessitates thinking around the management, administration and use of such datasets. A good number of funders in Africa require data scientists to license datasets using Creative Commons (CC) licences.

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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure to Funding Agencies and Agency March-in Rights

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

Intellectual Property Rights and Federally Funded Research

Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Keeping Your Data Safe: The Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge

“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

The US’ Review of March-in Rights, and Some Questions on an Indian Counterpart

Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

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