Do Global IP Rights Exist? Laws, as we all know by now, are territorial. Many countries share common elements or systems of administration, but at the end of the day the law of the land applies only to the region, country, or territory. Intellectual Property… Read More »What is the Paris Convention in IP Law?
The Need for Green IP In 1988 Dr. James Hansen, the then Director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies, concluded before the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that global warming had become a phenomenon that would adversely affect the environment. Today, more than… Read More »What is the Fast Tracking of Green Patents?
Why? What? When? How? These are some of the most used words in John’s dictionary. He’s pretty curious about the workings behind what happens in his life, and many of those have to do with the inventions and the aspects of intellectual property in the… Read More »What Can’t Be Patented? | IP Conversations
Why is this Significant? Legally speaking, floods are considered as an ‘Act of God’, something so destructive and all-encompassing that they provide a loophole to otherwise airtight contract requirements. In India there are designated flood prone areas, where people get affected by floods regularly, making… Read More »Patents Simplified: Automatic Multi-Functional Life Rescue Flood House
What is Section 3 (d)? Any patent related statute in any country has the intention of fostering innovation in that country. A patent can be considered to be a recognition of one person’s effort towards building something innovative in nature. Innovators are motivated to work… Read More »What is Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act?
What is Patent Evergreening? The term evergreening in itself denotes the process of keeping something fresh and green for perpetuity. A statement to the effect of “George Clooney is evergreen” can be used to denote his appeal being timeless, for example. But the terms takes… Read More »How Does Patent Evergreening Affect Innovation?
Why Is This Significant? Laptops have been an essential component of people’s working lives for almost two decades now, and shows all signs of being an indispensable part of office work for the forseeable future. They started as a less heavy and clunky alternative to… Read More »Patents Simplified: How Do Multi-Foldable Laptops Work?
What Are Patent Pools? A patent pool is a collaboration between two or more companies to cross-license their patents in a specific technology. This allows the use of related patents in the pool by the signatories of the contract, without the need for individual licenses… Read More »How Do Patent Pools Affect Innovation?
Why Is This Invention Important? Today, we can see the problem of drinking water has popped up in various parts of the world. We can even see international relations getting strained in Africa because of water scarcity. To cope with this problem, various nation states… Read More »Patents Simplified: A Solution for Sewage Treatment
Introduction IP Access to Health is essential nowadays in the pandemic because a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Right to health under article 21 has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to include medical aid, making a safe environment of drinking water and… Read More »Patents and the Right to Health in the COVID-19 Era
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