It is always said “Prevention is better than cure”, same is with Intellectual Property Laws. If you take certain precautionary steps, you can save yourselves from legal hassles and huge legal costs. Intellectual property has plenty of benefits for startups and getting it sorted out will help your business to succeed. But unfortunately, many [...]
Members of Chilean congress and a group of 6 patients visited Chilean ministry of health yesterday to ask the government use authority under Chilean law to end patent monopolies on prostate cancer drug enzalutamide and on sofosbuvir-based combination drug for treatment of Hepatitis –C virus. The proposal was made under the advertisement of Luis [...]
The treaty adopted almost four years ago in Marrakesh allowing for exceptions to copyright for the benefit of visually impaired people was hailed as a victory for human rights over private rights. However, as the European Union is preparing to ratify the treaty, according to a civil society group report, intense lobbying by the [...]
As the ratification by the European Union of an international treaty creating an exception to copyright for visually impaired people nears, a leaked text shows that the directive implementing the treaty in the EU might come with safeguards limiting the scope of the treaty, allegedly pushed by the publishing industry. According to the document, [...]
At the world’s biggest computer fair, the CEBIT in Hannover , Germany today , an official of the European Patent Office promoted patents for CII(computer implemented inventions), also called software patents by critics. CII continues to grow considerably, according to EPO. While mathematical methods, programs for computers, and presentations of information are excluded by [...]
Social media is a brilliant way for people to communicate quickly and creatively. You can quickly share thoughts, idea, and emoticon even with your phone. With instant access to just about any image across the web ,it seems harmless to pass around images. Easy access to image ever uploaded to the web is copyrighted [...]
