First Publication Date: 25th November 2009
Intellectual Property protection provides business and competitive advantage to a company. While IP is important for all companies, its value for A Start Up Company, especially, a technology or knowledge based company, is very high. In addition to providing business and competitive advantage, IP can play a very important role in enabling a Start Up company to build business relationships, raise funds, face cut throat competition and so on. In the light of…
First Publication Date: 9th November 2009
In my earlier post I had discussed about the prosecution and litigation and the effects of prosecution on the outcome of litigation.
Friends, here is a case where the Delhi High Court has allowed a Patent holder to amend his claim (or, should I say extending the scope of claim) after a suit for infringement has been filed.
An Indian Patent (no. 190380) has been granted to AGC flat glass (formerly, known as Glaverbel). AGC files a…
First Publication Date: 19th November 2009
In my previous post I had analyzed the claim of the patent that is alleged to have been infringed. In this post, I will follow it up by analyzing the complete specification, and commenting on the manner in which the patent specification is drafted and positioned for examination.
I have uploaded the patent specification for those of you who want to give it a read:
IN195352 - Garware - Garaware vs Techfab
The invention…
First Publication Date: 7th November 2009
An infringement case which has been in my radar for quiet sometime (for various reasons) is the one in which a company called Garaware has filed a patent infringement suit alleging that their patent rights have been violated by a company called Techfab.Garware has a granted patent that relate to gabions, and Garware alleges that Techfab is infringing their patent.
The details of the case can be found if you have access to Manupatra, or just…
First Publication Date: 3rd November 2009
Last weekend, at a training session in Hyderabad, I was once again confronted by the ever sizzling issue of Indian Patent Office's stand with regard to patenting of Gene Sequences. The outcome of that heated argument is this post of mine.
Prior to signing the TRIPS, any invention even remotely linked with living organism (including micro organisms) was not patentable subject matter in India. Article 27 (3) of TRIPS required its signatory to allow patents for…
First Publication Date: 1st November 2009
The government in the guise of the patent office is guided by the Patent Act and rules of the respective country to confer the necessary rights to the inventor(s) for his/her invention. The extent of the rights is determined by the scope of the claims in a patent application which the inventor(s) files with the patent office.
The two broad factors that largely tend to affect the scope of the claims are:
1) The prosecution history of…
First Publication Date: 5th November 2009.
In US, it is possible to block publication until grant of a patent application provided certain conditions are met. According to § 1.213 of MPEP, if the invention disclosed in an application has not been and will not be the subject of an application filed in another country, or under a multilateral international agreement, that requires publication of applications eighteen months after filing, the application will not be published, provided:
(1) A request (non-publication…
First Publication Date: 1st November 2009
According to Section 10(4)(d) of The Indian Patent Act, every complete specification shall include an abstract section to provide technical information on the invention.
According to Rule 13(7) of The Patent Rules, the abstract section shall begin with the title of the invention. The abstract shall also indicate the technical field of the invention, the technical problem the invention solved by the invention, how the invention solves the mentioned problem and the use(s) of…
First Publication Date: 31st October 2009
More often than not, most of the companies, be it mid size or large, and in some cases even start-ups, seem to have some strategy or the other when it comes to filing patent applications for their invention. These companies would have identified the markets in which they want to protect their invention, and they also would be aware of the various methods of monetizing their invention/patent. More importantly, these companies would be ready to…
First Publication Date: 3rd April 2009
The Common Public License (CPL) is an open source license agreement released by IBM. The company holds copyright over the license. It permits the distribution of the license but limits the right to modify it. Softwares such as Windows Installer XML developer tool, Windows Template Library and so on have been released under the Common Public License.
Rights
The agreement grants a license over the following rights under the copyright law to every person…