Presenting you the 4th video of the series “Students and Patents - Intellectual Property” In our previous videos, we discussed how a...

Welcome to the 3rd episode of our series “Students and Patents - Intellectual Property”. In the previous two episodes, we discussed the...

A patent license contract is a legally binding contract, where both the licensee & licensor have obligations that the deal needs to satisfy.

This is the second episode of our series on "Students and Patents - Intellectual Property" and this episode talks about the eligibility...

This is the first episode of our latest series on "Students and Patents - Intellectual Property" and this episode talks about the need...

US patent law gives a patent owner the right to exclude others from making, utilizing, offering to sell, selling, or importing into the...

Patent litigation in the US often involves expert witnesses playing the central role and function of a person of (ordinary) skill in the art (POSITA or PSITA). The expert witnesses assist the court with the professional or technical matters arising in a case where they testify about the complex and technical subject matter involved in the case that is litigated to provide the relevant and necessary information, and opinions as to such matters on account of their skill, techni

What is Double Patenting? Double Patenting is the granting of two patents for the same invention, to the same patent owner. A continuing...

UI/UX design is an essential part of any website and the on-screen controls you used to perform various functions on web apps, make up GUI

“A smart contract is a self-executing contract with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly written into lines...

What is E-Discovery? Litigation involves discovery, the process of obtaining and exchanging evidence, or information that might potentially become evidence. Parties are bound to the legal procedure of information and evidence exchange with one another in state and federal courts. While it is primarily described in the context of litigation, the discovery process is essential to many other areas of investigations, arbitrations, and other forms of dispute resolution. e-Discover

Trade Secrets are IP rights that apply on confidential information. Any information that has a commercial value because it is a secret,...

The U.S. law allows inventors to file different types of patent applications to cover new improvements or different aspects of their...

When one person has, by his declaration or by his act, intentionally caused or permitted another person to believe a thing to be true and...

Drafting a patent application is not as easy as many think. Many times those new to the industry fail to adequately describe inventions...

Snoring, a form of tensed breathing, interferes with quality and quantity of sleep, both for the person who snores and for the person who...

What is a Functional Claim? A functional claim limitation describes an invention in terms of what it does, rather than describing its...

What is Patent Licensing? “The process of patent licensing includes a patent holder that legally allows another party to sell, import, or...

IP is disembodied which makes it difficult to value. Patents are composite and thus they are an exception to competition laws worldwide.

Various courts around the world have determined appropriate methodologies for calculating damages on SEP’s ( Standard Essential Patents ) whereupon patent holders have made an assurance to license to fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. Determination of patent holdup, licensee holdout, use of worldwide portfolio licensing , incremental value rule, etc. is included in these decisions. The court determines damages based on the reference judgments and FRAND te