Patents
Supreme Court Debates the Obvious
Especially in the tech world, disputes over what makes a particular invention an ‘obvious’ combination and unworthy of a patent are becoming more frequent.
Patent And Trademark: What Makes Them Different?
These are differences in a trademark and a patent and how they can be used in your business.
How to Patent a Great Idea
Advice on how to patent an idea. Tips on patent applications, approaching the patent office and choosing a patent agent.
No Patents Trend with Website Development and Promotion Software
The niche of website development and promotion software, scripts, tools and solutions is getting new habit - not patenttng inventions. Turns out inventors and big online brands and have serious reasons for it.
Clinton Backs Violation of Aids Drug Patents
Bill Clinton has backed moves by several developing countries to break Aids drugs patents held by US pharmaceutical companies to reduce the huge cost of tacking the disease.
The Jackson 45 - a New Search Angle for Google
Internet portal opens door on 200 years of patents - Filings reveal inventive ideas from entertainers
Protecting your New Invention
Have an Idea for a New Invention? Don't get your idea stolen. Tips to keeping your new ideas safe from information theft for those who want to protect their invention.
New Sensor For Vehicles To Make Its Own Mark
According to an announcement released by SmarTire Systems Inc., they have just recently filed an application for a patent in the country. Their patent would be for the external valve sensor which can be actually used in the previously mentioned tire pressure monitoring system.
Google's New Patent Translated
There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. This is especially true for Google, which just recently released a new patent application - System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results...
Drug Firms Seek to Stop Generic Hiv Treatment
Multinational drug firms have begun to seek patents for Aids drugs in India, a main source of cheap treatments, provoking protests from campaigners and patients who say this will stifle supplies of affordable therapies.
WHO Plea to Drugs Companies
Drug companies should not take out patents on their new medicines or enforce patents in poor countries if that is likely to prevent patients from getting them, an influential commission set up by the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
Supreme Court to Rule on Patent for Your Thoughts
The US supreme court is due to hear arguments in a case today that could overturn thousands of controversial patents, after a lower court ruled that doctors could infringe a drug company's ownership rights "merely by thinking" about the relationship between two chemicals in the human body.
Patents and Trademarks for your Crafts
A patent and trademark are a far more in-depth than a simple copyright on your craft show items. Are you protecting your ideas properly?
Great Site Ranking in Google The Secret's Out
Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at...
All about trademarks
While it is sometimes confused with general copyright or patent laws, the trademark is a very specific type of patent law.
Filing for a patent
How many times does this scenario happen: You have a great idea. You think you can make millions. You tell all your family and friends about it. The next thing you know, your great idea is being broadcasted on infomercials and some other guy is making millions off of your idea.
Monsanto's Chapati Patent Raises Indian Ire
Monsanto, the world's largest genetically modified seed company, has been awarded patents on the wheat used for making chapati - the flat bread staple of northern India. The patents give the US multinational exclusive ownership over Nap Hal, a strain of wheat whose gene sequence makes it...
Aids Specialist Wins First Round in Azt Patent Fight
The Aids Healthcare Foundation, the largest non-governmental supplier of Aids treatment to patients in the United States, won the first round of a legal battle yesterday to break GlaxoSmithKline's hold over the patent on AZT, the first Aids drug. A district court in California has thrown...
Bloomberg in patent row
Bloomberg, the financial news provider, has come out fighting in a legal battle begun by rival Reuters over alleged patent infringement.
Belarus leader patents his title
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has cemented his totalitarian reputation by decreeing a ban on the heads of companies, unions and other Belarussian organisations calling themselves "president", limiting the use of the title to himself.
UK Backs Poor Nations Over Medicine Patents
The government has explicitly accepted that poor countries should be allowed to buy or make cheap versions of patented medicines.
Germany's Copyright Levy
Based on the recommendation of its Patent Office and following fierce lobbying by VG Wort, an association of German composers, authors and publishers, Germany is poised to enforce a three years old law and impose a copyright levy of $13 plus 16 percent in value added tax per new computer sold in the country.
American patent ruling hits GSK
Sales of GlaxoSmithKline's most prized drug could fall by as much as 80% in the US, its most lucrative market, following the loss of a critical patent lawsuit.
Smart Phone Says Who's Calling
American scientists have devised the most telltale telephone since Alexander Graham Bell rang the next room and said "Mr Watson, come here, I want you!" They have patented a receiver system which, like a butler at an embassy reception, announces the caller's name as the phone rings...
China in a Panic Over Mystery Bug
The Chinese authorities are struggling to quell alarm in southern China over a health scare which has led to panic-buying of patent medicines and disinfectants.
Glaxo faces losing exclusive rights to £5m-a-day blockbuster drug
GlaxoSmithKline admitted yesterday that it had been nudged a step closer to relinquishing exclusive rights to manufacture and market the best selling anti-depressant drug Paxil after a US judge ordered a trial to establish the validity of three of its patents on the product.
US Drug Makers Accused of Bullying
The US government and the giant pharmaceutical companies are continuing to bully poor countries to tighten up their patent rules, hampering efforts to obtain cheap medicines for people with diseases such as HIV/Aids, according to a new report. One year after the historic Doha declaration...
The Case of the Compressed Image
Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image using the JPEG algorithm. It urges third parties to negotiate with it separate licensing agreements. It bases its claim on a 17 year old patent it acquired in 1997 when VTel, from which Forgent was spun-off, purchased the San-Jose based Compression Labs.
Biodiversity deal aims to stop drug companies plundering plants
A worldwide plan to prevent drug and biotechnology companies plundering medicinal plant resources from the developing world and then making huge profits by patenting them has been agreed after 10 years of negotiations.
Patent Nonsense
The most surprising aspect of the steel war launched by the United States last week is that anyone is surprised.
Advice on how to patent an idea. Tips on patent applications, approaching the patent office and choosing a patent agent.
No Patents Trend with Website Development and Promotion Software
The niche of website development and promotion software, scripts, tools and solutions is getting new habit - not patenttng inventions. Turns out inventors and big online brands and have serious reasons for it.
Clinton Backs Violation of Aids Drug Patents
Bill Clinton has backed moves by several developing countries to break Aids drugs patents held by US pharmaceutical companies to reduce the huge cost of tacking the disease.
The Jackson 45 - a New Search Angle for Google
Internet portal opens door on 200 years of patents - Filings reveal inventive ideas from entertainers
Protecting your New Invention
Have an Idea for a New Invention? Don't get your idea stolen. Tips to keeping your new ideas safe from information theft for those who want to protect their invention.
New Sensor For Vehicles To Make Its Own Mark
According to an announcement released by SmarTire Systems Inc., they have just recently filed an application for a patent in the country. Their patent would be for the external valve sensor which can be actually used in the previously mentioned tire pressure monitoring system.
Google's New Patent Translated
There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. This is especially true for Google, which just recently released a new patent application - System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results...
Drug Firms Seek to Stop Generic Hiv Treatment
Multinational drug firms have begun to seek patents for Aids drugs in India, a main source of cheap treatments, provoking protests from campaigners and patients who say this will stifle supplies of affordable therapies.
WHO Plea to Drugs Companies
Drug companies should not take out patents on their new medicines or enforce patents in poor countries if that is likely to prevent patients from getting them, an influential commission set up by the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
Supreme Court to Rule on Patent for Your Thoughts
The US supreme court is due to hear arguments in a case today that could overturn thousands of controversial patents, after a lower court ruled that doctors could infringe a drug company's ownership rights "merely by thinking" about the relationship between two chemicals in the human body.
Patents and Trademarks for your Crafts
A patent and trademark are a far more in-depth than a simple copyright on your craft show items. Are you protecting your ideas properly?
Great Site Ranking in Google The Secret's Out
Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at...
All about trademarks
While it is sometimes confused with general copyright or patent laws, the trademark is a very specific type of patent law.
Filing for a patent
How many times does this scenario happen: You have a great idea. You think you can make millions. You tell all your family and friends about it. The next thing you know, your great idea is being broadcasted on infomercials and some other guy is making millions off of your idea.
Monsanto's Chapati Patent Raises Indian Ire
Monsanto, the world's largest genetically modified seed company, has been awarded patents on the wheat used for making chapati - the flat bread staple of northern India. The patents give the US multinational exclusive ownership over Nap Hal, a strain of wheat whose gene sequence makes it...
Aids Specialist Wins First Round in Azt Patent Fight
The Aids Healthcare Foundation, the largest non-governmental supplier of Aids treatment to patients in the United States, won the first round of a legal battle yesterday to break GlaxoSmithKline's hold over the patent on AZT, the first Aids drug. A district court in California has thrown...
Bloomberg in patent row
Bloomberg, the financial news provider, has come out fighting in a legal battle begun by rival Reuters over alleged patent infringement.
Belarus leader patents his title
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has cemented his totalitarian reputation by decreeing a ban on the heads of companies, unions and other Belarussian organisations calling themselves "president", limiting the use of the title to himself.
UK Backs Poor Nations Over Medicine Patents
The government has explicitly accepted that poor countries should be allowed to buy or make cheap versions of patented medicines.
Germany's Copyright Levy
Based on the recommendation of its Patent Office and following fierce lobbying by VG Wort, an association of German composers, authors and publishers, Germany is poised to enforce a three years old law and impose a copyright levy of $13 plus 16 percent in value added tax per new computer sold in the country.
American patent ruling hits GSK
Sales of GlaxoSmithKline's most prized drug could fall by as much as 80% in the US, its most lucrative market, following the loss of a critical patent lawsuit.
Smart Phone Says Who's Calling
American scientists have devised the most telltale telephone since Alexander Graham Bell rang the next room and said "Mr Watson, come here, I want you!" They have patented a receiver system which, like a butler at an embassy reception, announces the caller's name as the phone rings...
China in a Panic Over Mystery Bug
The Chinese authorities are struggling to quell alarm in southern China over a health scare which has led to panic-buying of patent medicines and disinfectants.
Glaxo faces losing exclusive rights to £5m-a-day blockbuster drug
GlaxoSmithKline admitted yesterday that it had been nudged a step closer to relinquishing exclusive rights to manufacture and market the best selling anti-depressant drug Paxil after a US judge ordered a trial to establish the validity of three of its patents on the product.
US Drug Makers Accused of Bullying
The US government and the giant pharmaceutical companies are continuing to bully poor countries to tighten up their patent rules, hampering efforts to obtain cheap medicines for people with diseases such as HIV/Aids, according to a new report. One year after the historic Doha declaration...
The Case of the Compressed Image
Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image using the JPEG algorithm. It urges third parties to negotiate with it separate licensing agreements. It bases its claim on a 17 year old patent it acquired in 1997 when VTel, from which Forgent was spun-off, purchased the San-Jose based Compression Labs.
Biodiversity deal aims to stop drug companies plundering plants
A worldwide plan to prevent drug and biotechnology companies plundering medicinal plant resources from the developing world and then making huge profits by patenting them has been agreed after 10 years of negotiations.
Patent Nonsense
The most surprising aspect of the steel war launched by the United States last week is that anyone is surprised.