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Using Crowdsourcing to Combat Patent Squatting – Can It Really Work?

Patent Law

If you are an innovator, inventor, or if you have a new product or service on the market which is patentable, you are surely aware of the new patent laws regarding issues of first to file, or first prototype built. It seems we've had terrible time with companies that have been abusing our patent laws and rules. And we've unfortunately hurt our small businesses, inventors, and entrepreneurs by making so ...

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Intellectual Property – Patent Law, Copyrights, and Trademarks

Patent Law

Patent law is intended to give a temporary monopoly to the inventor to make and sell his invention. The period of the patent is limited but it keeps others from making, using, selling or importing the product. It is a license that can be sold, assigned or transferred. A patent is only good in the country where it is issued so patents must be obtained in all desired countries. A ...

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Indo-U.S Relations In Light Of Patent Laws – An Overview

India and U.S are the two great democracies in the world presently, but the relation between them subsists not only from post independence era in Indian history ,but from the time when India have not even gained independence. The relations among them have been changed and developed overtime due to various factors , which resulted in cooperation as well as conflict sometime. Today also the relations are influenced by several ...

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Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Patent Infringement Invalidity Regulatory Law Pharmaceutical

In the case of Les Laboratoires Servier and Another v KRKA Polska SP.ZO.O. and Another [2006], the claimants made an application for an interim injunction to prevent the marketing and distribution of a drug which they claimed infringed their patent. The claimant companies were in the business of manufacturing and researching pharmaceutical products. The first claimant was the second largest French pharmaceutical company worldwide, and the second claimant was a ...

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Intellectual Property Law – Patent Law – Invalidity for Obviousness

The case of Conor Medsystems Inc v Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc and Another [2007], concerned a patent for a medical device used in operations. The defendants owned a European patent for a device called a 'stent' used in coronary angioplasty. The 'stent' is inserted into a diseased artery during the procedure to keep the artery open. The claims in the patent concerned a 'stent' coated with a polymer loaded with the ...

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