IP Activity of Human Coronaviruses

IP Activity of Human Coronaviruses CoronaVirus: Coronaviruses are RNA viruses that cause infections in mammals and birds, ranging from mild to severe infections. There are mainly seven types of coronavirus strains that mainly cause respiratory tract infections in humans. They are as follows: Human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43) Human coronavirus HKU1 (HCoV-HKU1) Human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E)  […]

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Optimizing the Patent Portfolio

Optimizing the Patent Portfolio Optimizing the Patent Portfolio An exclusive right to manufacture or use, sell a product for a company seems to be exciting, but maintaining a patent portfolio adds an economic burden to the company. Especially when a set of patents or their families are not used, not in demand, not fetching any […]

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IP activity in video conferencing amid COVID-19

IP activity in video conferencing amid COVID-19 The world is geared for the worst pandemic in its history, where the lifecycle is thrown out of track. Notably, the workflow of the digital arena got crippled by this pandemic, where every developed nation seeks lockdown to contain the spread of disease. Thankfully, humans have already invented […]

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Patent Licensing

Patent Licensing A license is a permit to use something. For example, an adult can get a driver’s license, which permits him/her to drive a vehicle. But this does not give him/her ownership of the vehicle. What Is Patent License? A patent license is an agreement that lets someone else commercially make, use, and sell […]

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Effect of Industry 4.0 on Patent Filings

Effect of Industry 4.0 on Patent Filings Industry 4.0 stands for the fourth industrial revolution. In the future, products are manufactured through the production process independently using intelligent/smart factories/machines. In this, raw materials and machines use internet-of-things to connect with each other, which helps to provide mass production with the individualized learning system; these systems […]

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Effects of COVID-19 on Interactions and Operations of USPTO

Effect of Industry 4.0 on Patent Filings Since Jan 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken control over the entire globe and putting the day to day life on halt. Almost every country has “lockdown” ultimately.  It caused a massive impact on all the business lines.  IPR is not spared from this.  Based on the present […]

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Power of Attorney

Power of Attorney Power of Attorney:  A patent application is a techno-legal document by virtue of which the patent owner gets an exclusive protection right, thereby preventing others from making, using, offering for sale, and importing the invention. So, to make optimum utilization of this right, one should also have a “strong” patent, which cannot […]

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) trends in the last five years

Artificial Intelligence (AI) trends in the last five years Automation Intelligence is becoming a part of our life, whether it could be personal or professional. Whenever we read or watch any news on TV, we hear concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI) at least once in a day.  What is Artificial Intelligence? How to find various patent […]

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Automation in patent analytics

Automation in patent analytics Automation is the buzz word in any industry now. Being a patent engineer and with an experience of 10 years in intellectual property rights (IPR), I can say that automation is gradually entering in IPR domain. Some of the examples are 1) patent databases have become more intelligent in terms of […]

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