Fighting Identity Theft

Chances are good that you know someone who has been victimized by the fastest growing crime - identity theft. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that there were 10 million cases of identity...

Patents For Inventors - Your Questions Answered

Are you confused about what a patent is and whether you should get one? This is primer for beginning inventors that answers your most commonly asked questions. Questions include what is a patent, what is patent pending, what protection does a patent provide, should you keep your invention secret, and more. A must-read for inventors at all experience levels.

Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws

Just as one owns physical property and real estate, Intellectual Property (IP) allows people exclusive ownership of their creativity and innovation. It gives these people control on their innovations for which they are rewarded and encouraged to create further for the benefit of others.

Understanding Patent Database Behavior For Better Patent Search

Extracting information from huge datasets, based on keyword search is actually a challenging job. Patent databases contains millions of patent records and when it come to patent search to find out the relevant patent literature in a specified technology area, its really interesting but annoying too. Thus patent searching is very important in an organization. It's very crucial of technology companies as well as service providers. Since removing irrelevant patents during analysis, will cost time, thus affect the productivity and even the satisfaction of the clients.

Intellectual Property - Copyright Infringement in Computer Software

The case of Point Solutions Ltd v Focus Business Solutions Ltd and Another [2007], which was heard in the Court of Appeal, involved a claimant who carried on business as a provider of computer software services, and in particular software for the creation and use of electronic application forms for provision to the financial services sector.

Patent- How Well Protected Are The Patent Holders?

How well are we, the patent holder, protected? For twenty years, patent holders are protected, they say. Exclusive rights have the right to sue an infringer.

Intellectual-Property - We Should Know The Scope And Nature

The scope and nature of Intellectual property has expanded. Software and database need protection. Laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. WTO and TRIPS enabled laws to harmonise the situation.

Protecting Your Intellectual Property (IP)

Intellectual Property (IP), in the literal sense, refers to the property of one’s intellect or mind. In terms of business, it is defined as one’s proprietary knowledge.

Patent Map Generation and Reading

Patent Mapping a way to visualize patent mining results that involves clustering or otherwise orienting patent data on a page so that there is meaning in the spatial relationships among the data points. Patent Landscape: graphical representation of how large numbers of patents relate to each other based on keywords, citations, or patent classifications. It is useful in identify trends, determine patent gaps and opportunities, and design around competitors' patents.

Intellectual Property – Trade Mark Infringement – Advertisement

In Wolters Kluwer Ltd v Reed Elsevier Ltd (2005), the claimant published online seminar services for accountants under a service called CCH Seminars Online. The material for the service was provided by Online Tutors until July 2005, when this relationship was terminated. Online Tutors was engaged by the defendant to provide material for a competing service called Tolley’s Seminars Online. In the 21 July 2005 edition of the magazine called Taxation, the defendant advertised its online tax and accountancy seminars and declared that it was the same service as that of the claimant's. The defendant also advertised that they would offer subscribers of CCH Seminars use of Tolley’s Seminars Online free of charge until expiry of the CCH Seminars subscription. The claimant objected to these advertisements and sought a correction notice. The defendant issued a notice making it clear that CCH was continuing with its own service. The claimant was unsatisfied with this notice and objected requesting a further correction notice on the grounds that the notice still sought to rely on the claimants name and reputation to try to divert customers to the defendant’s competing service.

Intellectual Property: Community Trade Marks – Registration Refusal – Likelihood of Confusion

In Alcon Inc v Of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) [2005], a mark was refused registration because the public was likely to confuse the mark with another similar mark.

Intellectual Property – Patentability of Computer Programmes - Exclusions

Patenting computer programmes

Patent Me This, Batman

If you have a great idea for an invention, you must protect it. Here are some invaluable tips for how to patent your invention.