In clusters of modern low-and high-rise office buildings set amid acres of lush greenery here, thousands of engineers are hard at work, writing software for the latest telephones, designing next generation microprocessors, and developing wireless broadband technology. Innovation in software products can be protected as intellectual property, usually either through the use of copyrights [...]
Every product or service which we see around us is the result of innovation and creativity of human mind. Thus in this way we are surrounded by intellectual property. Regardless of what product your enterprise makes or what service it provides, it is likely that it is regularly using and creating a great deal [...]
Time is running out on the U.S. patents for many of the most popular brand-name drugs. Over the next several years generic versions of many well-known best-selling drugs will become available then. Patents for many blockbuster brand-name drugs begin expiring at a rapid pace in 2010 and will continue for the next few years. [...]
Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. Since 1998, an increasing number of patents have been issued to software and Internet companies that have devised novel ways of doing business – for example, new online ordering processes or a unique internet advertising scheme. These [...]
In June 2008, the China State Council officially promulgated the “Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy.” The Outline identified “the development and improvement of the standard related policies, standardization of the behavior of incorporating patents into standards”as a special task. In November 2009, the Standards Administration of China (SAC) issued for public comments the [...]
The European coat of justice has ruled that google is not liable for trademark infringement by allowing companies to use rivals trademark as advertising key words through its Ad words programme. The court ruled that although google provides a plateform for the adverts, it is responsibility of individual advertiser to ensures that thy do [...]
