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COVID-19 pandemic has led many industries to file bankruptcy in 2020. It’s been a rough year for the restaurant and construction industries. On the other hand, the telecom sector is not affected that much by the pandemic as the internet has become the need of an hour for every house. These low times have created an opportunity for telecom industries to explore and expand their horizon. For example, Bharti Airtel partnered with Verizon to launch their video conferencing servic

While there is no such thing as a world-wide patent, there is something that approximates a world-wide patent application that can result in a patent being obtained in most countries around the world. This patent application is known as an International Patent Application, or simply an International Application. The international treaty that authorizes the filing of a single patent application to be treated as a patent application in countries around the world is the Patent C

A patent is a contract between the patent owner and the government that gives the patent owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. But what happens when the infringer is the government itself? The Eleventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides immunity to the State Government of U.S. against any patent infringemen

Everyone is talking about the novel coronavirus, its symptoms and how it is affecting work and life of worldwide, with us folks at Copperpod being no exception. The epidemic has become a pandemic in a matter of days and is a major challenge for some countries to contain its spread, let alone finding a cure to it. In a commitment to limiting spread of the disease, Copperpod has put on pause all business travel for at least 2 weeks, until the CDC and other relevant authorities

A MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect transistor) turns ON when there is a current flow from the source to the drain. The channel creates a so-called gateway for the current. The gate voltage is used to establish a channel only after which the current flow can happen. Reducing the size of the transistor reduces the channel length over which an electron has to travel under the applied electric field which leads to Quantum Tunneling wherein the electron can cross the

Any company or individual can forfeit intellectual property rights in a patent by filing a disclaimer under Title 35, section 253 of the U.S. Code, which states “Whenever, without any deceptive intention, a claim of a patent is invalid the remaining claims shall not thereby be rendered invalid. A patentee, whether of the whole or any sectional interest therein, may, on payment of the fee required by law, make disclaimer of any complete claim, stating therein the extent of hi

35 USC §103 describes the condition of patentability referred to as non-obviousness. It reads as follows: ‘’A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having o

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" – Albert Einstein Tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google are facing problems dealing with the onslaught of AI-generated fake media known as Deepfakes. “Deepfake” is so named because it uses Deep Learning (DL) technology – a branch of Machine Learning that applies net simulation to massive data sets, to create a “FAKE”. Deepfake videos or images are created by replacing a face in an ex

A patent is a form of intellectual property that allows its owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, usually 20 years. Traditionally business houses across the world invested huge funds to generate intellectual property by R&D activities. The major motivation for these intellectual property rights was to leverage the first mover advantage and to keep the competition at bay. However, with changing b

“Without Freedom, there is no Creation” - J. Krishnamurti An innovation is useful only if there is freedom to test, market, or sell product or service utilizing that innovation. An enterprise with even the most innovative product may be laden with technology risks in the form of existing intellectual property in the market which may need to be licensed or circumvented. Such risks often culminate in the form IP infringement disputes (if the technology is already patented by a