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Patent Infringement: An Overview
The Indian patent act, 1970 (IPA), though has not explicitly defined infringement, any act amounting to violation of the rights of the patentee or encroaching the rights of the patentee, or any act which directly or indirectly aims at attacking the patent or the elements which contributed in the making of the patented product or process may be referred to as an infringement.
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Patent Regime in India: A Contemporary Insight
The basic anatomy for the enforcement of intellectual property legislations for India and countries across the world was provided by The General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs [GATT] of 1995, which gave rise to the Trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) regime.
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IBM Patents Microfluidic chips with easy to integrate receptor bead integration system
Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary technology that integrates diverse fields such as Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Life sciences. It is the science of flow of fluids in micro or nano liter range through micro-scale channels and the technology of fabrication of devices having such micro-scale channels.
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Artificial Intelligence- Rational agent solving intelligence
The Artificial Intelligence is progressing rapidly. It has the potential to revolutionize the human civilization that will impact industries, companies and how we live our life. For every couple of weeks, there’s an unexpected development that takes people by surprise. This makes clear that we are near to the start of new era. Artificial Intelligence is gaining incredible power, more than ever before in human history.
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Understanding Patent Validation/Invalidation Search
A key aspect for granting an application for a patent involves a patent examiner conducting an extensive search to uncover the prior-art references. The identified prior-art references are examined against the claims to determine the patentability of the application i.e., whether the whether the application should be granted or not on the grounds of Novelty, Non-Obviousness/Technical Efficacy and Industrial Applicability.
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MARGRETHE VESTAGER - Tech Terrifying Bureaucrat
The European Commission's antitrust chief, MARGRETHE VESTAGER, is one of the continent's most powerful women who regulates commercial activity across Europe. Margrethe Vestager believes in free speech, free assembly, free trade- and choices free from undue influence. She is known for both- Niceness and toughness.
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Bio-Rad labs patents Polyacrylamide Gel systems with oxygen barriers
<strong>Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE)</strong> is widely used in Life Sciences research for <strong>separation of biomolecules such as DNA, RNA and proteins</strong> for further characterization. Under denaturing conditions, where detergents like SDS are employed, the separation is based on size.
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Beginnings of a Bionic Man
Science is reinventing the human body. Scientists are growing novel technologies that are not foreseen or anticipated by the nature. I believe it is the appropriate time to talk about the Prosthetic technology. Bionics & Prosthetics explore the interplay between biology and design.
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Compulsory Licensing of Patents, an Indian Outlook
A set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to a patentee in lieu of the public disclosure for a certain period are patents. But, when the sovereign state authorizes a third party to make, use, or sell a patented product without obtaining the consent of the patentee, marks the advent of compulsory licensing.
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Licensing Of Patents: An Indian Perspective
Patents are monopoly rights and intangible by nature. Section 48 of the Indian patents act, 1970 deals exclusively with the rights of patentees which prevents the third parties, who do not have the consent of the patentee, from the act of making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing for those purposes the patented product in India.
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