The fight over the steeply priced cancer drug XTANDI(enzalutamide), used in prostate cancer has taken interesting turn, with a clutch of civil society, organisations including Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment and Health Global Access Project, urging University of Califirnia to withdraw its case and cease efforts to obtain patent in India. The drug was [...]
You must not be aware of about how the e-commerce Giant Amazon, is desperate about delivering your orders at your doorsteps. Recently the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave it a application regarding delivering orders by attaching them to a parachute, to your doorsteps. The patent ensures that the product is delivered as it [...]
As the American Invent Act switched from the "first to Invent" to "first to file" patent system. This means that the right to patent inventions goes first to the first person to file patent application as opposed to the first to create the product. What are Provisional Patent Application? A provisional patent application is [...]
Apple's patent applications range from innovations around using biometrics to authenticate payments to securely transferring payment to a device such as a point of sale device. The move points at the company preparing to bring its Apple Pay service to India, following rivals Samsung and Google which have also begun working on the [...]
As the law has developed over the last several years it has become necessary to file faster, but better and more detailed patent applications that can survive a multitude of new procedural and legal challenges. Some innovations are no longer worth patenting in the U.S., or if patents are sought applicants might want to [...]
Qualcomm is taking its legal battle with Apple to the companies who actually build the iPhones and iPads. On Wednesday, the mobile chip giant said it's suing four Taiwan-based Apple contract manufacturers -- Foxconn, Compal, Wistron and Pegatron -- for not paying royalties to Qualcomm for its patents on smartphone technology like cellular modems. [...]
