First Publication date: 26th July 2008
Issue
Does the earlier experiment by Gulf Corp. invalidate the patents of Rosaire as the inventions were known or used?
Holding
Yes, as the earlier experiments constituted prior knowledge and use according to Sec 102 (a), they invalidated the patents.
Rule
102 (a)
Facts
Rosaire and Horvitz patents relate to the methods of prospecting for oil or other hydrocarbons. The methods claimed involve the steps of taking a number of samples of…
First Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Dr. Sudhir is a graduate from St. John’s Medical College and Sloan School of Management, MIT. He has been on the founding team of three life sciences companies which include Angstrom Medica, Massachusetts, a nanotechnology based orthopedics application Company; Triesta Sciences, California, a genomics based cancer research organization and ClinTest International, Michigan. He currently serves as a CEO of ClinTest International and also runs Sandbox, a life Sciences Incubator.
Q1. What is the value of…
First Publication Date: 10th February 2008
The Mozilla Public License (MPL), is a license developed by Netscape Communications. Most of its provisions are same as the Netscape Public License. The license is considered to be a middle ground between the General Public and BSD licenses.
Rights granted under the license
Any software distributed under MPL grants both copyrights and patent rights to the recipient. The license grants the following copyrights over the software:
Right to use;
Right…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008
The GNU General Public License ("GPL") is one of the most popular open source licenses. All software released by the Free Software Foundation and many other authors, are governed by this license. GPL provides the freedom to share and modify software under certain conditions.
Copy, Run and Distribute
GPL allows a person to copy, run and distribute the software governed by it. A person is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of the software, commercially…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008.
Over the past few months, demands for increased privacy regulation have taken center stage as increasingly private transactions move to the Internet. According to The New York Times, the Clinton Administration plans to impose privacy regulations on health care information in the waning weeks of his presidential term. Companies are faced with renewed pressure to update privacy policies as tracking technologies change and consumer concern grows.
Privacy policies are not generic and must be tailored to…
First Publication Date: 7th January 2008
The Copyright law protects ideas expressed on a tangible form. Ideas by themselves do not get any protection; only the expression of the idea is protected under the copyright law. To get protection an idea should be expressed as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematographic or photographic work or a sound recording. Such an expression should be on a tangible form such as a paper, canvas, tape and so on. Expression in an electronic form is…
Date of First Publication: 24/12/2007
Author
D.r Kalyan C. Kankanala ,
Chief Knowledge officer,
BananaIP visit bananaip.com
Introduction. 1
Part I - Overview of Anti Circumvention Laws. 4
International Treaties. 4
United States of America. 5
European Union. 6
India. 7
Part II - Problems with Anti-Circumvention Laws. 7
Part III - India and Anti-circumvention Laws. 8
Advantages to Users. 9
Advantages to content owners. 9
The conflict and its resolution. 10
Part IV - Conclusion. 11
Introduction
Copyright Law encourages creation of works of authorship by granting exclusive rights for a limited period of time.…
"Working with the body is an art more than a skill," Mr. Raghavendra tells his students of 'Yoga Massage' in his very first class.
It is in fact fascinating to watch him express, original body work with elements of creativity that surpass intellectual property standards and take a substantial lead. While many body work sequences are based on traditional practices, several practitioners and therapists have over the years developed novel and creative sequences for various reasons ranging from recipient requirement…
This presentation is titled "Intellectual Property and Business" and was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala to the students at the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIMB).
The presentation covers the following topics:
- Party Conversation
- Intellectual Property and its forms
- Patents
- Illustrative Example - Elfot
- Prior Art for Elfot
- Industrial Designs
- Trademarks
- ELFOT – trade mark
- Copyrights
- Trade Secrets
- Integrated Protection
- Licensing Matrix
- The Dravidian
- Dr.Kalyan's Books
You may access the full presentation here:
The presentation is intended to serve as…
"Are you the Bananas?" the client asked, laughing loudly when we entered.
"Yes, we are," I said, laughing with her.
Almost every one laughs when we introduce ourselves for the first time.
"Hi, I am from BananaIP."
"Where did you say you are from? Ha Ha Ha"
They can't help laughing.
One even went to the extent of proclaiming, "Who in the right frame of mind calls an IP firm Banana!"
"Me," I said instantly, summoning all my energies to…