If you buy or sell on eBay, or are a BlackBerry user, the odds are that you are aware of the potential impact of patent law on your day to day living. The lawsuit of MercExchange against eBay has the potential to disrupt about a third of eBay’s business if a permanent injunction were granted….
Category: Patents
Free Patent Search Information and Tips
Free Patent Search Training in Free Patent Database online The first step to find out if you invention can be patented is to conduct a free patent search online in any free patent information database online. How can you do a free patent search to find out if your invention can be patented? Some of…
Patents in India: Law & Procedure
Legislation The Indian law of patents is enshrined in the Patents Act, 1970. The Act seeks to provide for legal protection for inventions. The rights granted under the Act, are operative in the whole of india. What is a Patent A Patent is an exclusive monopoly granted by the Government to an inventor over his…
Step by Step Patents
Do you have an idea or an invention that you would like to get patented? Are you confused or unsure of what to do to obtain an invention patent? The best place to go to get patent information is through the U.S. Patent Office. This patent information is available online at their website at uspto.gov….
Intellectual Property Law- Patents – Assignment of Patents
In the case of QR Sciences Ltd v BTG International Ltd [2005], the defendant company, BTG, (a purchaser of intellectual property and technology rights, particularly patents) granted an exclusive licence to QR Sciences (an Australian Company), in September 2002 to use a large number of its patents subsisting in many different countries. A clause in…
Patent India
The Government of India has met the December 31 deadline for complying with its obligation to World Trade Organisation (WTO) under TRIPs agreement, by promulgating an Ordinance – The Patent (Amendment) Ordinance, 2004 followed by the Act – Patent (Amendment) Act, 2005. Under TRIPS, India was required to introduce product patent where only process patent…
India Patents – Exclusive Marketing Rights (EMR)
The term EMR means the exclusive marketing rights to sell or distribute the article or substance coverered in a patent or patent application in the country. The purpose of EMRs is to ensure that the innovator can market free copies of his product. To comply with the requirements of TRIPS, pending the transition to a…
Craft Show Items – Patents and Trademarks
These are similar to, but not exactly like a copyright. Infact, a patent and trademark are a far more in-depth than asimple copyright on your craft show items. “A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right tothe inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. Theterm of a new patent is…
The Beginnings of a Quality Patent Search
Hopefully you realize that before you do much of anything, you need to look at the marketability of your invention. Remember, you don’t want to do anything until you have a good feel for whether or not you can actually make some money from your invention. Of course, you can’t ever determine with 100% accuracy…
U.S. Issues Over 3,000 Utility Patents-Every Week!
If you are an inventor looking at applying for your first patent, chances are you will be seeking what is known as a “utility patent.” Also known as a “full utility” patent or a “concept” patent, the utility patent represents over 85% of the approximately 3,500 patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark…
Patents & Inventions – So You Have an Idea – – So What?
Okay, you have come up with a fantastic idea that will solve all the woes of the universe – or at least make you $millions$ – what do you do? How do you start? Well, the first thing to do is get all your ducks in a row. Start a hard-bound journal and put everything…
International Patent Law in China and Its Impact on American Innovation
Many complain about the fact that Chinese companies often steal American products and re-engineer them and send them around the world to be sold in mass. In fact you do not have to look very hard in the United States on retail shelves to see knock off products of such. Many are made as inexpensively…
Using Someone Else’s Patent to Bring A Product to Market
Often inventors and innovators will come up with a way to make a better mousetrap. Often they will find others hold patents to a critical component to make this better mousetrap innovation or invention. Therefore they need to make a deal with the company or individual holding the patent so that they can use this…
Royalties on Patents and Audit Rights
Many inventors come up with a great idea and wish to sell this idea to another company in trade for royalties for use of their patent. This makes sense because the inventor does not have to start his own company and go through all the risks to build the device and can sit back in…
Protect Your Ideas With Copyrights and Patents
Q: Can you tell me the difference between a copyright and a patent? Also is that something I should let a lawyer handle for me? A: A wise man once said, “The biggest difference between a copyright and a patent is the number of lawyers it takes to do the paperwork.” There is a point…
Patentability of Business Methods
More frequently, many of my clients have been approaching me regarding the topic of patenting their unique business model, i.e. methods of doing business. So can a method of doing business be patentable? Yes. In 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the patent laws did extend to protect…
How Do I Go About Filing For A Patent?
There is no doubt that being able to file for a patent on a new invention, idea, or process is essential to keeping the necessary flow of new ideas coming in a free market economy. After all, without a patent, businessmen could take advantage of a new idea or product by simply copying it without…
Why Do I Need A Patent?
We all hear the word “patent” thrown around a lot in the media and in advertising, but what is a patent anyway? What is it’s purpose, and what are the guidelines for getting a patent? Well, let’s say that you have invented a new product or process that has never been done or produced before….
Patent – Do Yo
Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks are confusing to some extent, even though there are some similarities among these tools of property protection, they all serve different purposes. A Patent for an invention is the inventor’s property right to his invention, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new Patent is 20 years from…
Patent Litigation Financing
A company or person who invents something new would like to be the sole owner of the invention. Since it is their ‘original idea’ they want to reap the benefits and profits. This is applicable on everything from the designs, trademark or brand names, copyrights and so on. These ‘ideas’ are collectively called intellectual property….