Facebook is an interesting, emerging platform for us. Reaching an audience is valuable, even if there’s no way to turn that value into money. Facebook's video views are skyrocketing but there's a dark side to this growth. The social network also has a serious problem with copyright infringement, and rights holders say the company [...]
What is Intellectual Property Right? Intellectual property is the product of the human intellect including creativity concepts, inventions, industrial models, trademarks, songs, literature, symbols, names, brands,....etc. Intellectual Property Rights do not differ from other property rights. They allow their owner to completely benefit from his/her product which was initially an idea that developed and [...]
Jacqui Dean “Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister” has today released the terms of reference for a review of the Copyright Act 1994. Jacqui Dean Copyright affect how people create, distribute and access information, Today’s rapidly changing technological environment it is important we ensure our copyright is fit. “The Study highlighted a range of opportunities [...]
After nearly a decade in court, a Nevada judge decides that producers, writers and the director of the hit musical fairly used an unpublished biography. Background The four seasons was a well known music group decades ago. At some point in the late 1980s, one member of the band, tommy devito, agreed to team [...]
About PTAB The Patent Trail and appeal board (PTAB) conduct trails, including inter prates, post-granted covered business method patent reviews and derivation proceeding, hears appeals from adverse examiner decisions in patent applications and reexamination processing and render decisions in interferences. Background On October 20–21, 2017, the Chicago-Kent’s Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property [...]
To satisfy the enablement requirement applicants should provide the explicit examples of the claimed compound or direction or guidance on how to synthesize the claimed compound. Disclosing generic structure or general approaches to synthesis does not by itself satisfy the enablement requirement for specific compound. A known precursor does not enable synthesis of a [...]
