The Concept Of Patent Mining In India
All prior art relevant to the invention should, ideally, be recognized in order to determine the uniqueness and inventive step of the invention. Due to different constraints such as language, paperwork, and so on, access to the prior art is limited, and it is impossible to uncover all prior art relevant to the innovation. However, […]
Pfizer Lookout For A Partner For Drug Manufacturing
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Probing The Ringfence – Examining The Interface Of Patents And Trade Secrets In India
INTRODUCTION Fostering competitive and innovative scientific temperament has been a cardinal aim of intellectual property protection for inventions. Competing regimes of patents in India and trade secrets have given refuge to inventors seeking protection of their inventions and proprietary information. This choice has now become an important decision in business strategy development. However, as inventions […]
What Are The Differences Between The Protection Of An Invention And An Industrial Design?
INTRODUCTION In everyday life, we use so many products of different brands, inventions that are created by human mind called as Intellectual Property. Patents and Designs are the subsets of Intellectual Property and many a times we are bound to confuse between them. But these two vary from each other completely. A design protection and […]
The WTO Trips Waiver: A Panacea To The Covid-19 Menace?
INTRODUCTION Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on 28th January 2022, in a press conference of the WTO General Council announced that a breakthrough in the form of an accord between the developed and the developing nations on the TRIPs Patents waiver proposal for COVID-19 vaccines could be possible within […]
Interpretation of Rule 2 f (fa) of the Patent Rules, 2003: Who can avail benefits under the Patent regime?
INTRODUCTION Startups and small entities seeking patent protection for their discoveries are likely to gain greatly from India’s recent series of modifications to its Patent Rules. Overall filing and prosecution fees for startups and small entities have been drastically decreased as a result of these revisions. While the fees for small entities have been eliminated, entrepreneurs can keep […]
SoftBank Acquires Around 200 Patents from Loon, a Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) has recently reported that it has acquired approximately 200 patents, which includes granted and pending patents, for High Altitude Platform Stations (“HAPS”) from Alphabet Inc.’s Loon LLC. This happened after Alphabet Inc, Loon’s parent company decided to close down its stratospheric communications initiative, Loon. Loon is a nine-year-old project and a two-and-a-half-year-old […]
Advantages of Patent Valuation
Patents are the core asset generator for various industries. Industries and companies earn a lot through licensing and assigning patents. The license and assignment of patents are common practices in the market which makes the licensor earn millions of royalties. With the rapid technology development and increasing users around the world, the trends of licensing […]
Understanding the Relevance of Market Research for Patents
Significance of market research: An overview Understanding market trends and business environments play a crucial role in the development and successfulness of a particular product or service. More specifically, market research that is conducted before filing a patent or after obtaining one may help an inventor scrutinize the market environment for a particular invention. This […]
Patent Searches- IIPRD’s Support Services
A patent ensures the protection of an invention for a limited period of time. Upon patenting an invention, a third party will be restricted from commercially exploiting or duplicating the invention in any manner. According to most patent laws around the world, several criteria must be satisfied in order to patent an invention. Such conditions may […]