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When should Indian Companies file PCT applications?

This post discusses when Indian companies should file PCT applications. Filing a PCT application has several advantages, including the ability to file for patents in multiple countries with a single application and the option to delay filing a patent application in a particular country by 30 months or more… Read More Continue Reading When should Indian Companies file PCT applications?

November 9, 2022 IP AI Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1615Views 0Like

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How to increase your company’s Patent filings quickly?

Are you looking for ways to increase the number of patents your company files? Check out these tips on how to make patent filing a priority, identify key technologies, and work with a patent attorney. Read More. Continue Reading How to increase your company’s Patent filings quickly?

November 7, 2022 IP AI Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1630Views 0Like

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How to Choose a Patent Attorney: Important Considerations When Choosing

When you have an idea for a new product, it’s exciting. But until you file for a patent, that idea is also very fragile. If someone else comes up with the same ideas and files for a patent first, your idea could be stolen from you before you even get a chance to protect it. Read More. Continue Reading How to Choose a Patent Attorney: Important Considerations When Choosing

November 3, 2022 IP AI Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1470Views 0Like

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Principles for filing Divisional Patent Applications in India

After the establishment of the IP Division, the Delhi High Court has been clarifying different aspects of patent law through its lucid and well-written judgments. In a case decided on 12th July 2022, the Court has clarified and succinctly put together principles pertaining to the filing of divisional patent applications. While rejecting the validity of a divisional application including product claims pertaining to DPP IV inhibitors because the parent application included only use and process claims, the Court stated as…

August 11, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 2336Views 0Like

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The Business of Intellectual Property For Start-ups

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Intellectual Property is an important business tool in the hands of Start Ups and small companies. Its value assumes higher importance during a crisis. As many businesses work hard to survive the crisis posed by the COVID pandemic, the crisis has opened new avenues to innovative and creative Start Ups. Start Ups that are able to build strong and valuable IP during this time, whether related to COVID or not, have a unique opportunity to succeed and thrive. In order to …

July 16, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, General, Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, IP for Start Ups, IP Training, IP Valuation, Open Source Licensing, Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks 0Comment 1392Views 2Likes

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This image depicts Sound Captcha written over it with a red color background. This image is relevant as A patent granted to Towson University was granted this patent to validate captcha for blind person using their voice. Click on this image for more information

Sound CAPTCHA – Patents for the Blind 3

This post was published on September 01, 2014. At one point, access to technology, especially the Internet, was only a dream for the visually disabled. For a long time, online tools were not accessible owing to either the lack of availability or high cost. But today, popular screen reading software applications like Job Access With Speech (JAWS) and open source screen reading software applications like NVDA are available for free. These applications allow a blind person to access a computer and…

August 15, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 951Views 0Like

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Post-dating Patent Applications: Frisk it Before You Risk it!

This post was published on August 08, 2014. Our previous article on post-dating exposed the risks involved in the shifting ahead of the priority date of an application. The risk of losing priority can cost you dearly. Today's post, however, unravels the puzzling question of how to claim priority even from a post-dated application! We are aware that most applicants tend to post-date a provisional application as the deadline to file a non-provisional application (or complete application, in some jurisdictions) approaches,…

August 6, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1252Views 0Like

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Patent Claim Drafting – Preamble

This post was first published on July 16, 2014. It would have been very well drummed into a patent professional, Mr. X, who has just started drafting a patent specification that “claims form the heart of a patent application,” or the “name of the game is claim,” and so on. Very few might agree with me if Mr. X has been told to carefully consider the words and/or features and/or the language used in the preamble, as…

August 6, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 2093Views 0Like

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Sound Sign Posts – Patents for the Blind 2

This post was published on August 25, 2014. Last week we discussed the talking walking stick innovation. Today, I am here with another patent, brought to my attention by the reliable, Naveen. Banking on certain patents to navigate your way through the world, is not an uncommon feature in knowledge driven industries and I embark on a mission to learn a few tricks. This patent, filed in 2008, by Universidade Do Porto, Portugal, seems to be an outcome of Academic Research. The Guidance, navigation and…

August 5, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 875Views 0Like

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Battle of Instant Photography

This post was published on August 20, 2014. August 19 is celebrated as World Photography Day! Photography, in layman’s language, is an art of producing images using a camera. The history of recording images dates back to the late BC, though this cannot be substantiated. Later, in 1839, Louis Daguerre, a French artist and photographer, introduced Daguerreotype, the first publicly announced photographic process. In 1840, the first American patent (US 1582) was issued in photography to Mr. Alexander Wolcott, for his…