U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of GoDaddy<\/strong><\/p>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a patent litigation case\u00a0between GoDaddy and RPost Communications Ltd. after RPost had appealed to the Supreme Court against the appellate board’s decision in favor of GoDaddy last month.<\/p>\n
RPost Communications Ltd., the Los Angeles-based creator of the RMail secure and certified electronic communications company had alleged in its suit that GoDaddy\u2019s email marketing product infringed on a broad patent regarding how email works, including how email bounces back when sent to an address that is no longer active.<\/p>\n
International Patent & Design Updates<\/h2>\n
USPTO to Launch New Patent\u00a0E-Filing System In 2018<\/strong><\/p>\nThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that it would release a new \u201cuser friendly\u201d electronic filing system for patent applications in 2018. USPTO Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld unveiled a plan to launch a beta version of the \u201cPatent Center\u201d filing system, which will eventually replace the office\u2019s two current \u201cpatent applicant information retrieval\u201d and web-based patent application systems in 2019.<\/p>\n
The new features will include the ability to upload multiple documents at a time, drag-and-drop documents, and save submissions at any time. This will also allow applicants to file and view their documents in one location.<\/p>\n
Canada closer to <\/strong>joining the Hague Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter the Canadian Governor-in-Council took the formal step of publishing the newly proposed Industrial Design Regulations\u00a0(the proposed\u00a0Regulations) in the Canadian Gazette, Canada appears to be inching closer to being a party to the Hague Agreement. Canada\u2019s\u00a0Industrial Design Act\u00a0and\u00a0Regulations\u00a0are being amended to allow Canada to join the\u00a0Hague Agreement which would allow for the International Registration of Industrial Designs by Canadian applicants.\u00a0The Hague Agreement provides a mechanism for registering an industrial design in several countries by means of a single application, filed in one language, with one set of fees, resulting in cost and time savings.<\/p>\n
BananaIP\u2019s Patent Tip of the Week<\/h2>\n
Patent Maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\nA patent grant is only half of the story; maintenance of that patent is the other half. In India, when a patent is granted after the expiry of two years from the date of filing the patent application, the renewal fee(s) must be paid within three months from the date of grant of the patent and within the extended time of six months.<\/p>\n
When an applicant fails to pay the renewal fee within the prescribed period and also within the extendable period of six months by requesting for extension of time, the patent ceases to have an effect. Patents that have lapsed, due to non-payment of renewal\/maintenance fee\u00a0may be restored within eighteen months from the date of lapse by paying the entire fee that was due along with a statement and evidence to indicate that the non-payment of renewal\/maintenance fee was unintentional.<\/p>\n
Author: BIP\u2019s Patent Attorneys<\/strong><\/p>\nLed by Senior Partners, Somashekar Ramakrishna, Nitin Nair and Vinita Radhakrishnan, BIP’s Patent Attorneys are among the leading patent practitioners in the country. They work with clients such as Mahindra and Mahindra, Samsung, HCL, Eureka Forbes, and Titan. They specialize in IT\/Software, Electronics\/Telecom, Mechanical, Automotive, and Bio\/Pharma domains, and help clients with patent filing, prosecution, management and strategy in India, and across the world.<\/p>\n
The weekly patent news initiative is a part of their pro bono work, and is aimed at spreading patent awareness. You are free to share the news with appropriate attribution and backlink to the source.<\/p>\n
If you have any questions, you may write to BIP’s Patent Attorneys – contact@bananaip.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekly patent news covers inventive Christmas and Santa Claus patents, new digital initiatives by the Indian Patent Office, and global patent updates. The article includes practical guidance on patent maintenance and concise statistics for stakeholders. Authored by leading BananaIP Counsels attorneys for enhanced patent awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6,14],"tags":[1359,1002,8884,6823,8886,2280,310,8885],"class_list":["post-41102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-designs","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-christmas-patents","tag-hague-agreement","tag-india-patent-office","tag-patent-e-filing","tag-patent-maintenance","tag-patent-news","tag-patent-statistics","tag-santa-claus-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41102\/revisions\/136455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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