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USPTO Reduces Small and Micro Entities Patent Fees via Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022
Introduction: Application costs for patents are a necessary evil. However, by reducing those fee in comparison to major organizations, the US Govt. aims to make patenting process more affordable for small and micro enterprises and individual inventors. This multi-tiered structure aims to promote innovation while giving small businesses and independent innovators a relief and in … Continue reading USPTO Reduces Small and Micro Entities Patent Fees via Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022
Read more »Design Protection of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
GUI (Graphical User Interface) often pronounced as “gooey” is the interactive and visual component for computers and electronic devices. A GUI dictates and facilitates the use of icons, windows, menus, screen-layouts, drop-downs, and all sorts of interactive components of an operating system. Over the years, GUIs have driven the software industry with new attractions and … Continue reading Design Protection of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
Read more »Daedalus Blue Infringement Suit Against Oracle
The latest transaction of IBM where it divested a large chunk of assets from its portfolio to Daedalus Group LLC, headed by Ed Gomez a former Altitude Capital and Walker Innovation executive, for a hefty price of $9 million has stood out in particular because of the USPTO assignment document. The transfer of 500 US … Continue reading Daedalus Blue Infringement Suit Against Oracle
Read more »Foreign Trademark Applicants to be represented by U.S. licensed Attorneys
A new rule has been announced by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) requiring that any foreigner who applies for trademark registration or appears before a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in the United States can only be represented by a lawyer who is licensed to practice in the United States. This rule … Continue reading Foreign Trademark Applicants to be represented by U.S. licensed Attorneys
Read more »Copyrighting Patents
The nature of Intellectual Property Rights is such that, like any other law, it has loopholes as well as overlaps. These overlaps arise due to the fact that IPR protects ideas by their expressions and expression can be in more ways than what can be imagined by one person. There are subject matters which are … Continue reading Copyrighting Patents
Read more »Vacation of injunction upon invalidation of patent by USPTO ePlus. v. Lawson Software
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In a recent judgment, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on July 25, 2014, vacated the U.S. District Court’s decision on injunction and contempt orders against Lawson Software and instructed the lower court to dismiss the patent litigation case brought by ePlus, Inc. This decision mainly pertains totwo main issues. Firstly, whether … Continue reading Vacation of injunction upon invalidation of patent by USPTO ePlus. v. Lawson Software
Read more »Inherent Anticipation: In re Montgomery
The Federal Circuit in this case addressed the issue of anticipation by inherency in the context of method of treatment claims. The panel affirmed that a claim to ‘a new use for a known compound’ was inherently anticipated by a reference which disclosed a plan for a proposed clinical trial that had not been carried … Continue reading Inherent Anticipation: In re Montgomery
Read more »Recent Change in America Invents Act
Congress passed the America Invents Act that makes major changes to the existing U.S. patent system. President Obama signed the Act into law on September 16, 2011. What does this mean for Indian Inventors and Research corporates who already filed Patents already or want to get a new patent file in US? The first impact is … Continue reading Recent Change in America Invents Act
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