Patent Lawsuit Financing

Patents are related to new innovative and useful inventions made by researchers and inventors. Patents are exclusive legal rights given to inventors by the court for a fixed duration of time, allowing them to disclose the inventions to the general public, with certain regulations and details about the device or invention made.

European Patent Searches

The main body giving patents within Europe is the European Patent Office or the EPO. This office is responsible for searching and providing patents to almost all countries in the European Union, barring only a few countries. At present, it has about 30 million patents on record.

US Patent Searches

The organization responsible for awarding patents within the United States is the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the USPTO. The USPTO has given 2.6 million patents within the country since 1975. Patents in the US are broadly divided into three categories -- utility, design and plant. The highest number of patents belongs to the utility category.

Patents, Protections and Piracy Problems

There is a huge wait at the Patent Office these days and yes the government is trying to do something about it; they are building a 600 million dollar new facility. But the back log continues. Sure you can do a poor man's patent and send letters back to yourself, initial drawings with dates and keep an official ledger of ideas; yes I do, you should too.

Patent Piracy and Intellectual Property Issues; US and China

There are some International Trade Deficit Issues, which the United States is trying to shore up right now. China, needs to right-size its currency although that is five years out and we all know instant changes could cause chaos there. Many business men in the United States complain and say that

Intellectual Property Law – Patent Infringement - Patent Law – Amendments Disallowed

Patent case. The claimant in the case of LG Phillips Co Ltd v Tatung (UK) Ltd and Others [2006], held a UK patent for mounting a flat panel display device within a two-part housing, which could be incorporated into products such as laptops or free standing computer monitors. The patent was principally directed at LCD displays for laptops. The claimant brought proceedings against three defendants in the patent county court. It was alleged that the defendants had infringed the patent through the creation of a closed circuit television monitor. The defendants denied infringement, and actually counterclaimed for the revocation of the patent in question on the grounds of anticipation, obviousness and insufficiency.

Basics Of Patent Law In India

Patent law has been formulated with an objective to promote and protect the inventions and methods. The object of granting a patent is to encourage and develop science, technology and industry. A patent can be defined as a grant of exclusive rights to an inventor over his invention for a limited period of time. The exclusive rights conferred include the right to make, use, exercise, sell or distribute the invention in India. The term of a patent is twenty years, after the expiry of which, the invention would fall into the public domain.

Patent Process Outsourcing in India - Emerging trends

Legal research and patent search are the hottest in a thread of outsourcing stuff increasingly sent to India. India is set to accomplish significant growth from its current share of 3-4 per cent to 6-7 per cent in the 250 billion dollar international market of Legal Process Outsourcing, by 2010.

Fundamental of Patent Document - Must Know

Patents by their techno-legal nature are written in a specific format, thus enabling it difficult to read and understand by a lay man. The focus of this paper is to provide very basic information of a patent document, so that a lay man can easily understand a patent.

Growing Need of Competitive Technological Intelligence

With the beginning of globalization, lower production costs and escalating production, competitiveness has become a necessity in the new information society. Knowledge has become the key corporate asset which enables companies to maintain their market competitiveness. Presently, companies are involved in various types of intelligence such as competitive, strategic, economic and business intelligence.

A Prologue to Mechanical Patents

Mechanical engineering perhaps has the oldest known inventions and patents. In fact, the word engineering is derived from a mechanical component. Mechanical engineering is a field that was conceived from natural laws of physics, where one engineers or manipulates these laws to his/her advantage. Mechanical patents non exhaustively and generally encompass utility tools invented constituting force, motion, mass, etc. It specifically encompasses all mechanical devices, contraption and interactions resulting in utilitarian instruments and apparatus, and where such interactions produce a action-reaction component that depends on the mechanism and nature of interaction. Further, all manufacturing processes, for example, metal working and treatment, printing, textile manufacturing, etc, are regarded under mechanical patents. Automobiles fall under mechanical patenting category, although one cannot be sure where a time travel machine, if invented, will be categorized. Of course, most mechanical engineering fields involve extensive use of computational and mathematical tools, physical laws and equations, but these fall under a different patenting category altogether.

How Do You File A Patent

You got a great invention, and you don't want others to create or use the same invention (or at least nobody can claim they invented it). That's the kind of protection a patent offers. It gives you exclusivity to create, reproduce and sell the product or process to the public for a particular length of time (most patents nowadays offer protection for a minimum of 17 years).

Business Method Patents, Part II

Since the flood of applications to the Patent Office, various online companies have applied for and been granted patents on a wide variety of methods, many of those involving Internet shopping or Web commerce advertising. In order to qualify for a business method patent there are various criteria that must be met. First of all, a business method patent is granted for a method or type of business software that is practical in its purpose. This is a criterion which is common for granting of all patents. Another criterion is that the business method must not be obvious. The Patent Office will not approve applications for methods that they have deemed to be entirely obvious. It is easy to prove that a method is practical, but a little harder to prove it is not obvious. A third criterion a business method patent must fulfill is that it should be something that is worth patenting. The Patent and Trademark ....

Patent History, Part II

The Patent Act was further amended in 1836, when it was realized that a more thorough description was needed; without a thorough description of the invention, it was harder to file a lawsuit against someone accused of illegally using the patent. After this amendment was made to the way in which patents are described, the patent act underwent major changes in 1836. These changes were the result of complaints lodged against patented items, which were not found to be new ideas. Eventually, the patent laws were changed to reflect that an invention had to be novel. Another component of the law was changed during 1836, with the removal of patent rules stating that a person from another country ....

Patent Laws Defined, Part I

This article will break down some of the laws that a patent carries. An Overview of Patent Laws These laws are difficult for a non-lawyer to understand, but not impossible. The patent laws administered by the Patent and Trademark Office are contained within Title 35 of the United States Code. The USPTO oversee the laws dedicated to patents. Title 35 of the United States Code is further divided into four parts: