The Role of IP Licensing in Technology Transfer and Innovation
Licensing is fundamental to a knowledge-based economy, facilitating technology transfer across all sectors while promoting innovation. With this knowledge-based transition, IPRs provide significant protection for innovations while fostering dissemination. Licensing agreements afford inventors, researchers, and companies an avenue to exploit their intellectual assets in return for allowing others to use their patented technologies, trade secrets, […]
Artificial Intelligence and its Negative Impact on Intellectual Property: A Basic Guide
Explore how AI affects patents, trademarks, and copyrights, raising legal and ethical concerns. Learn about AI-generated content, infringement risks, and IP law challenges. Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts Intellectual Property (IP) laws, raising legal and ethical challenges. AI can analyse data, create content, and perform tasks, but its role in IP creates ownership disputes. Patents face […]
Compulsory Licences and its Importance Worldwide in Patents Regime
HEPATITIS C – VACCINE AND PATENT Gilead Sciences’ sofosbuvir, a drug for Hepatitis C was approved in 2013 by US Food & Drug Administration was immediately criticized for its high cost as its price is so elevated relative to production cost.23 The average cost of a 12-week treatment of sofosbuvir is $84,000 per patient, despite […]
Rise of Blockchain and the Question of Patentability
1.Introduction It started in 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto came up with a ground-breaking idea of bitcoin and cryptographic proof that relies on CPU power to create immutable, tamper-proof ledgers which operate on a peer-to-peer architecture. Blockchain, was initially introduced only for Bitcoin and to ensure a consensus-based economic transaction, eradicating the need for a trusted third […]
The Effect of the New Patent Amendment on Pharmaceutical Companies
INTRODUCTION Whether the Indian pharmaceutical firms are indeed innovating in developing new drugs or just incrementally improving the existing drugs to gain patents and arrive on the drug market. Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: regained focus on research and development, having turned out as the fourth largest in the world in volume terms (8% of global production) […]
Exploring The Intellectual Property Landscape Of 6g And Future Wireless Technologies: Patents, Data Privacy And Global Challenges
New paradigms in communication networks, promise ultra-fast connectivity, and ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) integration along with a more robust Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem can be reasonably expected by the birth of sixth generation, 6G wireless technology. Straddled on the strong foundations of 5G, innovations such as terahertz frequencies, quantum computing, and ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output […]
Growing Importance of Mapping Patents through Evidence of Use and Claim Charts
Introduction Patents have become an important tool for gaining a winning edge in any competitive race, especially in times when companies are competing in innovation, they serve as both the shield and sword in the world of business. When there are innovations to be safeguarded, they act as shields by preventing others from using them […]
Patents in Medicine: Balancing Incentive and Access to Healthcare
Introduction: The development of drugs and other medical products is very important in this dynamic world. Innovation in the healthcare industry has become a pivotal part of everyone’s lives worldwide. Through the invention of various drugs and other medical products, the world has been able to deal with multitudinous life-changing conditions over time. Intellectual Property […]
Secrets in the Pitlanes : Navigating IPR In Formula 1
ABSTRACT The Adrenaline rushing sport of Formula One is not just a race among the twenty best drivers or pilots in the world but among the ten best Formula One car constructors. These teams develop a car from scratch. The sheer number of developments and technological advancements in the sport make it crucial for the […]
Global Patent Licensing
Introduction Global licensing of patents has become a major aggregator in pushing growth of technology and industries in the world at large. The intellectual property sector is booming and one major reason is people having realised the importance of owning an intellectual property, in this case, Patents and their commercial usage. Many have already reaped […]