Patent

By Irina Pomestchenko - Edited by Shandice Sluch | www.amdlawgroup.com Patents are generally believed to be the most territorial form of intellectual property.  However, with the modernization of the world economy, there is a strong push against the traditional territorial limits of patent laws in the United States. Patent infringement is defined by the statute in 35 USC. Section 271 (a) that provides: “Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, o

By Irina Pomestchenko| Edited by Alana Ballantyne The granting of a U.S. patent is a territorial right and does not provide protection abroad (see our blog on Territorial Limits of Patent Law blog for more details). A granted U.S. patent allows stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention in the U.S. only. If protection abroad is desired it shall be sought separately for each country of interest. There are several ways to accomplish this. Each approach bears its own

By Eliana Rocchi | amdlawgroup.com Edited by Aurelia Mitchell Durant When you seek a patent for your invention you should know that the “classic” type of patent, called a “utility patent”, is aimed to protect the invention's functional and structural features. If you also want to protect your invention’s visual characteristics, like its shape or its decoration, you might need a design patent. In fact, the appearance of your invention will not be covered by a utility patent if

By Irina Pomestchenko - Editor: Shandice Sluch | www.amdlawgroup.com Over the past few years, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has taken a progressively strict position on patent matters. In 2013, SCOTUS issued a ruling that human genes could not be patented in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. case. [http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/association-for-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics-inc/] This holding was followed by the Alice Cor

By Erin Holbrook | amdlawgroup.com Arx Pax founders Greg and Jill Henderson created a new way to get around, on a real working hoverboard. While there had been rumors in the past of hoverboard technology, this time it is patent pending. The Hendersons have designed a hoverboard called the Hendo, that uses a magnetic field to lift and propel users via magnetic field technology. Based in California, and funded using crowdfunding, the Hendersons have a target release date for the Hendo Hoverboard

By Erin Holbrook | amdlawgroup.com Late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs has been in the news lately for the large number of posthumous patents that have been won. A total of 141 patents have been awarded to Steve to be specific. The brilliant mind of Jobs are still being realized since his death in 2011. Jobs was a perfectionist and took great care for each element that went into Apple products. Up until his passing and after his lawyers had still been submitting patents for his ideas and innovations.

By Alana Ballantyne - Edited by Irina Pomestchenko Apps, short for “Applications” are a relatively new concept. Not long ago, the idea of having high-quality games, television shows, or movies at the tips of your fingers was a pipedream. Now, there seems to be an app for everything. How do you protect your great app idea? The following is a step-by-step guide to help you protect your valuable IP. Step number one? You need to patent your idea. First, you have to file what is known

By Christina Severino | amdlawgroup.com Over the past two years, Russia has made some significant advancements in the patent law arena. After gaining independence, Russia enacted new patent law in the early 1990s. However, these laws remained antiquated and left Russia behind until 2008 when it finally became compliant under the TRIPS Agreement (The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). TRIPS is an international agreement of the World Trade Organization. The Agree

By Kristen Daly | www.amdlawgroup.com In Hinduism and in India itself, thanks in part to the current ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, cows are considered sacred animals. However, the significance of the cow dramatically increased at the turn of the twenty-first century when the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, endorsed the use of cow-urine as treatment for infections, diabetes, cancer and DNA damage.[1] Unlike the Intellectual Property Law

  By Kaiqi Du | www.amdlawgroup.com In this Statistical Report, the U.S. granted patents with origins in the seven major foreign countries (Japan, Canada, Italy, China, India, Russia, and Brazil) in all years were researched. Japan had the most numbers of granted patents among the seven countries. These seven countries occupied more than half of the foreign origin granted patents and more than a quarter of the total U.S. granted patents. Statistical Results Figure 1. The numbers

  By Kaiqi Du | www.amdlawgroup.com From 2005 to 2015, the numbers of U.S. utility patent grants, including U.S. origin and foreign origin, were generally increasing; U.S. utility patent grants percent shares had an opposite trend with the design patent grants; the total numbers of U.S. patents grants were generally increasing. Specifically, year 2008 may be a critical year, since it was a turning point for U.S. patent grants. Statistical Results Figure 1. The Numbers of U.S

Erin Holbrook | www.amdlawgroup.com When you come up with a new idea or method of doing something, amid all the excitement, you should think first about how to protect your new idea. That is what Dr. Nate Story did when he came up with his idea for the ZipGrow Tower. By protecting his invention, he was able to see his product come to fruition like never before. When inventions are being thought up usually they start as a problem that needs solving. That was the case for Dr. Story co-owner

By Eliana Rocchi | amdlawgroup.com The billion dollars app boom is far from being over! A recent study carried out by GIGAOM for the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/sizing-eu-app-economy) shows how apps are going to substantially contribute to the future global economy and how app developers are going to take the global lead. It is important, for app developers, to know how to obtain protection for their ideas at first, and in the end for their developed apps.

By Christina Severino | amdlawgroup.com A study published by Boston University in 2012 found that over $29 billion of direct costs were generated by patent troll patent assertions. Further, it is estimated that these costs ballooned to over $80 billion, once the stock market reacts to such litigation. “Patent trolls,” or Non-practicing entities (NPEs), can be either a company or individual who essentially purchases patents, but has no intention to develop and market a product arising from t

By Katelyn Howells| Editor: Kristen Daly | www.amdlawgroup.com Despite an increase of women taking higher level STEM courses (women taking STEM courses at equal or higher rates than their male counterparts), this increase is not reflected in the STEM workforce; women make up at most 39% of the workforce in individual fields. This discrepancy is also present in the patent law market. In 2012, women represented 33% of the legal profession as a whole, but only 25% of patent law practitioners