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 […]
UTILITY MODEL Utility Model is also an IP right to protect inventions like patents, it is an exclusive right granted for a limited period of time in exchange of the invention. This can be called a second-class patent. Though this type of protection is practiced only in some countries, these are cheaper to obtain and […]
Sufficiency/enablement of claims in the specification Sufficiency/enablement of claims in a patent specification is defined as “patent description should sufficiently disclose the claimed matter in such a way that a person skilled in the art should carry out the invention with reasonable practice”. The requirement for sufficiency/enablement is provided under 35 USC 112. In general, […]
Patent Trolls post-America Invents Act (AIA) Patent troll or non-practising entity (NPE) is a company which acquires patents from other inventors/companies and files infringement suits against practising/product manufacturing companies. Before introducing AIA, there were a lot of arguments about NPEs with the way the NPEs suing multiple companies at a time and several small/medium companies […]
Nanorobot and its medical applications NanoRobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10-9 meters). Nanorobots remain a theoretical concept as no artificial, non-biological nanorobots have yet been created. Nanorobots can be used in a wide range of applications. Nanorobots have several components such as sensors, actuators, control, […]
Plant Patents Evolution: The United States started granting patents for the plant varieties for the first time in 1930. The first patent was issued to Henry Bosenberg for climbing, ever-blooming rose in the year 1931. 35 U.S.C. 161 – Patents for plants. According to the plant patent act 1930 under 35 U.S.C. 161, plant patent […]