The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is United States federal legislation that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2011. The Act switches the U.S. patent system from a “first to invent” to a “first inventor to file” system, eliminates interference proceedings, and develops post-grant [...]
Patent troll is a term used for a person or company who enforces patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered aggressive or opportunistic with no intention to manufacture or market the patented invention. Patent troll Patent trolls operate much like any other company that is protecting and aggressively exploiting a [...]
A patent is a statutory privilege granted by the Government to an inventor, and to other persons deriving their rights from the inventor (Eg: Assignee) for a fixed period of years, to exclude other persons from manufacturing, using or selling a patented product, or from utilizing a patented method or process. At the expiration [...]
Patents on pharmaceuticals are a contentious issue for many countries around the world, for the obvious reason that the average person in most countries can’t afford to pay for brand-name drugs. The patent battle over Glivec is, needless to say, bitter and complicated. The argument for providing a patent to glivec (imatinib mesylate), a [...]
Today I present to you a case of copyright infringement that deals with fair dealing aspect of Copyright Act, 1957. This is the case between ICC owned subsidiary(Plaintiff No. 1) and a sports broadcasting and content provider which delivers various international and regional sports contents to viewers via its sports channels(Plaintiff No. 2) with [...]
Geographical Indication is used to denote the name or sign, of the products which are from a particular geographical area or somewhat related to the origin like town, region or nation. Thus Geographical Indication gives the rights to its holder, and acts as the certification mark and also shows that the specified product consists [...]
