MSF Challenges Gilead\u2019s patent application in China<\/strong><\/p>\nM\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) or Doctors without Borders as the organization is otherwise called has filed a petition\u00a0with the China State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) opposing the Gilead\u2019s patent application for its\u00a0hepatitis C\u00a0drug, sofosbuvir and velpatasvir. The pills were recently launched in China at the cost of $100\/pill.<\/p>\n
MSF had earlier challenged the grant of the same patent in India last year. After initially rejecting Gilead\u2019s patent application, the patent office later however proceeded to grant the patent.<\/p>\n
Huawei\u00a0and Nokia sign patent license agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0Nokia has recently announced that it has entered into a multi-year patent license agreement with Huawei for an unspecified number of years. The chief legal officer at Nokia was quoted as stating that it is often a practice with Nokia that the details of these agreements are hardly ever revealed to the public, as the consumer doesn\u2019t typically need to be bothered with them in the first place.<\/p>\n
Nokia has previously entered into similar agreements earlier with the likes of HMD Global and Xiaomi. It also lodged a $2 billion victory against Apple recently and other companies want to avoid these types of legal disputes with Nokia.<\/p>\n
Technicolor exiting patent licensing business<\/strong><\/p>\nMedia and entertainment technology specialist Technicolor has\u00a0announced that it would be suspending its commercial patent licensing\u00a0business. This, the organization said, is in line with its objective to simplify the Group\u2019s structure and allocate its capital and resources to its operating businesses. Technicolor was most recently involved in a patent dispute with Samsung Electronics, which it now seems to have settled.<\/p>\n
Blackbird and Garmin settle \u2018Fitness Tracker\u2019 patent dispute <\/strong><\/p>\nBlackbird Technologies, a patent licensing company known for its prolific filing of infringement lawsuits has announced that it had reached a settlement in its suit against Garmin USA Inc. in Delaware federal court. The company had filed a suit against Garmin, a well known manufacturer of fitness trackers in August 2016 claiming that Garmin\u2019s fitness trackers\u00a0infringed on the company\u2019s pedometer patents. The terms of the settlement have not been made public yet.<\/p>\n
International Patent & Design Updates<\/h2>\n
GCC patent office completes development of electronic payment system<\/strong><\/p>\nThe GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Patent Office based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has finally completed the development of electronic payment\u00a0mechanisms\u00a0and data transfer between electronic systems. This is significant in light of the fact that the payment mechanisms for regional patent filings in the GCC were earlier a major obstacle for applicants, who would have to contact attorneys based in the region to make the payments on behalf of the applicants.<\/p>\n
The States of United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar, and State of Kuwait jointly form the GCC and applicant willing to file a regional patent may file it with the GCC patent office. Certificates of Patents granted by the GCC Patent Office secure legal protection of the inventor’s rights in all the Member States of the GCC.<\/p>\n
BananaIP\u2019s Patent Tip of the Week<\/h2>\n
Prosecution History Estoppel<\/strong><\/p>\nProsecution history estoppel, also known as file-wrapper estoppel, is a term used to indicate that a person who has filed a patent application, and then makes narrowing amendments to the application to accommodate the patent law, may be precluded from invoking the doctrine of equivalents to broaden the scope of their claims to cover subject matter ceded by the amendments.<\/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":"BananaIP Counsels presents a detailed weekly patent news roundup, featuring Indian patent statistics, Christmas patents, and notable global patent developments. The post also analyses recent disputes and legal doctrines relevant to intellectual property practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[1359,1837,8500,2789,8501,310,1207,3667],"class_list":["post-41119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-christmas-patents","tag-indian-patents","tag-international-patent-updates","tag-patent-disputes","tag-patent-seminars","tag-patent-statistics","tag-prosecution-history-estoppel","tag-weekly-patent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119","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=41119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41119\/revisions\/136465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}