Amazon\u2019s \u2018Alexa\u2019 becomes bone of contention<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has filed a lawsuit against Amazon alleging that Amazon’s voice technology, ‘Alexa,’ infringes on a voice-recognition technology patent that Rensselaer professors developed in the early 2000s. A patent was granted to Rensselaer in 2007 which involves a person to verbally communicate with a computer, and the computer would learn from that communication and adjust future results. This, the institute has claimed is the same technology that Amazon uses in its Alexa voice software and on various devices, including the Echo, Echo Dot, Fire TV accessories, Fire Tablets and others.<\/p>\n
Apple\u00a0demands 1 billion dollars from Samsung<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the retrial of the Apple versus Samsung case, Apple has sought 1 billion dollars from Samsung for infringing upon three of the company\u2019s design patents and two utility patents. While, the jurors in the court of US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California have already found Samsung guilty of the crime, Samsung has asserted that Apple is entitled to the damages on just the components which infringed on its patent rights and not the entire phone. Samsung\u2019s lawyers have therefore urged the jurors to limit the damages to $28 million.<\/p>\n
International Patent \/ Design Updates<\/h2>\n
Brazil expands list of accepted technologies under PPH<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) has expanded its list of accepted technologies for Patent Prosecution Highway with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Under the expansion list, patent applications relating to information technology and patent applications belonging to oil, gas and petrochemical inventions will be accepted.<\/p>\n
BPTO has been suffering with a massive backlog of patent applications and is attempting to clear this backlog by bringing in new measures. The office also has PPH agreements with the Japan Patent Office, PROSUL, the European Patent Office, and the State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC.<\/p>\n
China to increase term for pharma patents<\/strong><\/p>\nChina has announced that it would be extending the term of patent protection on pharmaceuticals from the present 20 years to 25 years. This move appears to be aimed at reducing the trade frictions between China and the U.S. A Chinese official was quoted as saying \u201cPatent protection typically lasts 20 years, but drugmakers spend much of that time on clinical trials to clear regulatory hurdles, which reduces the period they can sell new drugs without competition from generic versions.\u201d Japan, US, EU and other advanced economies grant up to five years additional protection to patented drugs to allow drugmakers more time to recoup investments in development.<\/p>\n
BananaIP\u2019s Patent \/ Design Tip of the Week<\/h2>\n
Patent Infringement<\/strong><\/p>\nA product placed on the market in a territory where there is no patent for the product in question cannot infringe a patent in another territory. However, importing a patented product into a patented territory from another country in which there is no equivalent patent is an infringing act and is actionable in court.<\/p>\n
Author: BIP\u2019s Patent Attorneys<\/strong><\/p>\nLed by Senior Partners, Somashekar Ramakrishna, Nitin Nair and Vinita Radhakrishnan, BIP’s \u00a0Patent 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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