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 […]
Why to approach a Licensed Patent Professional for protecting your invention Protecting Your Invention As an individual inventor, you may not have complete knowledge of the proceedings of a Patent office. Although there are guiding websites for patent filing and few freelancers who can help you out, they can only help you to some extent. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2018 v 2019: A Visual Insight to Patenting Activity in USPTO It has been quite a year for the US IP fraternity. A new set of regulations were introduced to streamline and provide clarity to US patent laws and patent activity, which eventually resulted in improving the ranking of US in the GIPC index. Let […]
Draft Bill to Reform 35 U.S.C. 101 It’s been a fruitful year for the US which saw a series of reforms introduced to restructure the section of the Patent Act, especially 35 U.S.C. 101 & 102. One such step is the introduction of a draft bill text which proposes to abrogate the requirement of judicial […]
Introspecting 2019: US back to domination in IP activity It’s close of the year now and rightly so it is also the time to introspect how this year has been for IP activities around the world and especially in the US in terms of achievements, growths, failures, and all other synonyms of experiences, and take […]
Challenges facing by inventors in Intellectual Property Challenges for inventors in IP A few years back, I met with an inventor who had a patent on RFID chip and wanted to file an infringement case against a well-known RFID manufacturer who was into the market. The inventor’s patent was claiming two side walls connected to […]
Critical Date for Invalidating a Patent The Bard’s way of questioning “What’s there in a date?” would have serious repercussions if you are thinking of invalidating a patent because in the field of IP activity date is what forms the basis for everything. That is why it is of utmost important to understand and establish […]