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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Events 5 March 2024: Workshop on Digital Assets, Ownership and Property Rights Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, in partnership with the Cloud Legal Project at CCLS, is organising a workshop exploring how the concepts of ownership and property rights relate and apply to digital assets. Book here.

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Russia Suspends Compulsory License Payments for Some Non-Russians

IP Tech Blog

This filing strategy may provide some protection against patented products manufactured in, but then exported from, Russia. Patent applicants may want to consider assigning ownership of their Russian patents to a trusted agent who is not from an affected country.

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Taking Another Page from the ABA: The USPTO Enacts New Rules of Professional Responsibility for Patent Attorneys and Agents

IP Tech Blog

Under the changes that take effect on June 25 th , patent practitioners will now be required to disclose client information to resolve potential conflicts of interest that result from ownership changes within a law firm or changes in a practitioner’s employment.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 1- November 7, 2022)

SpicyIP

The Controller of Patents where it rebuked the Plaintiff for not filing written submissions in time and thereby delaying the patent application process. She highlights how the decision reiterates the importance of adhering to procedural tenets during patent prosecutions. Defendant no. vs Corza International & Ors.

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Russia Suspends Compulsory License Payments for Some Non-Russians

LexBlog IP

This filing strategy may provide some protection against patented products manufactured in, but then exported from, Russia. Patent applicants may want to consider assigning ownership of their Russian patents to a trusted agent who is not from an affected country. ” (underlining added).

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Copyright Ownership of Movies and Films in Canada: Who’s on First? Patents and the Magical World of Psychedelics by Bonnie Hassanzadeh. Introducing the College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents. Patent Prosecution History Now Admissible as Evidence. Giuseppina D’Agostino. By Meena Alnajar. David Vaver.

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Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

IIPRD

For example, this may imply that IPRs would play an important role in protecting the brand image and logo through trademark registrations, protecting inventions with the help of patents, and protecting appealing designs by legally registering the design, thus granting a level of exclusivity to the MSME in a competitive market.