Patent Registration: Indian vis a vis foreign perspective Roadmap to Patent filing: A holistic view
Introduction Intellectual Property is a way of protecting technologically invented rights. Various forms of creation that need protection such as marks, services, logos, and many others exist. Trademarks, Copyright, Patent, Geographical Indication, and many such are ways to protect the person’s creations. This spirit of protection needs acknowledgement and legal implications for its arbitrary use. […]
An Essay on the Healthcare Industry and Patents: An Indian Approach
Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO), via the TRIPS agreement, has set out various governing provisions for pharmaceutical patents. Under these provisions, the authorities provide patent holders protection on their patents for at least two decades. Patents provide the patentee an exclusive license to create, utilize, or trade the patented innovation and forbid others from […]
Determining the legitimacy of Gene Patenting: Need for a regulatory regime in India
Introduction Patenting a gene is an exclusive right granted to a person or organization that purports to be the first to discover a specific sequence of DNA (a gene). Patent holders have the exclusive right to restrict how a gene is used commercially and non-commercially for a certain amount of time once they have received a […]
Suggested Reform In Patent Law : Revolutionary Or Problematic ?
“Recently the Economic Advisory council to PM said in a presentation to the stakeholder ministries like NITI Aayog and Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for a slight change in the Indian patent working by suggesting recruitment of more patent officers and by fixing six months as the time period so the […]
Patenting of Traditional Knowledge in Light of the Turmeric Case
Traditional Knowledge is a living corpus that has evolved within a small society from generation to generation. In an amusing way of expressing it, it cannot be protected traditionally owing to the unoriginality of its preservation and the fact that it is not subject to the restricted periods of intellectual property protection. Consequently, it has […]
Artificial Intelligence as an Inventor in Patent Law
Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter “AIs”) is a computer science discipline focused on developing machinery and systems with the ability to perform tasks attributable to human intelligence. From a patent law perspective, AIs were considered incapable of facilitating inventive processes autonomously and the permitted arena was limited to ‘AI-assisted inventions. With technological advancement, AIs can not only […]
Gene Patenting In India
There has been a great advancement in technology after the revelation of the structure of the DNA molecule. Since then, scientists have engaged in efforts of identifying the sequences of these molecules, their function and also in manipulating them to achieve desired results. Owing to their close association with nature and its use to achieve […]
How To Proceed When Patent Applicant Dies Before And After The Grant Of Patents
When Patent applicant dies before the Patent is granted Section 20 of the Patents Act, 1970 deals with the procedure that has to be following for substitution of applications etc. Under S.20(4), upon the death of one or more joint applicants for a patent, the surviving applicant(s) may request the application to proceed in their […]
Patent Registration Process in the United Arab Emirates
A patent is a sort of protected innovation that grants its owner the legal right to prevent others from creating, using, or selling a product for a set period of time in exchange for sharing an empowered public disclosure of the invention. In many countries, patent rights are governed by private law, which means that […]
Patent Registration & Copyright Protection For Software Piracy In Saudi Arabia (Dubai)
Copyright Protection For Software Piracy By Best Patent Attorney IIPRD In Saudi Arabia (Dubai): Software piracy, often known as software license violation, is the unauthorized use, distribution, exploitation, and/or reproduction of copyrighted software without permission. With the rapid advancement of technology, it is critical for an economy to be able to secure software developers’ rights […]