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  • Antitrust Laws: Promoting Innovation through Competition

    The Sherman Act, the first antitrust law, was passed in 1890 and was described as a "complete charter If one of those amounts is more than $100 million, federal law allows the maximum fine to be enhanced Price fixing, market division schemes, bid rigging, and group boycotting are examples of this type of The FTC Act allows only the FTC to file lawsuits. First, Section 1 of the Sherman Act forbids price fixing and cartel activity, as well as other collusive

  • Intellectual Property as a Career

    term "intellectual property" conjures up a slew of high-profile, often odd battles over who had the first The biggest relief for engineers in the IP field is that they can work in their core field– Most graduates have issues finding work in their core area and associated with their degree. The IP field gives them a chance to be working in the central field of new technological ideas generated a fair chance to excel in the field of IP law.

  • Gate-All-Around (GAA) FET – Going Beyond The 3 Nanometer Mark

    Gate-All-Around Field Effect Transistor (GAAFET) technology is believed to be the successor to FinFETs A FinFET device comprises a fin-like structure made up of silicon that extends from the substrate of The gate is formed over the fin, contacting the fin on the three sides. Figure 3 - FinFET vs GAAFET performance Figure 3 illustrates the difference in the electrostatic performance of FinFET and nanoribbon GAAFET.

  • Patent Licensing: Benefits, Pitfalls and Types

    rights in platform technologies to assist in internal R&D activities Helps to avoid infringement action Financially in court).” 6 Important Patent Licensing Pitfalls A lot of effort and determination is required to find

  • Determining Patent Quality for Patent Licensing and Acquisitions

    Patents are complicated because, firstly, the market for legal services is very competitive. Patent Strength Analysis: 15 Factors to Consider for Patent Licensing Patents by first inventors - A If the first inventor has a higher number of patents assigned to his name, then the inventor’s patent drafting experience and his field experience contribute to the strength of the patent. Length of First Claim - First independent claim of the subject patent covers all claim limitations.

  • Apple and Samsung Bury the Hatchet, Finally!

    When Apple filed its first lawsuit against Samsung back in 2011, the news set off alarms because Samsung In fact, four days before the first iPhone launch 11 years ago, Apple filed a suite of 4 design patents It wasn’t surprising therefore, when Apple fired the first shot – accusing Samsung of infringing atleast It was clear that neither side was going to back away from the fight. When the first case finally came to trial in August 2012, it took the jury less than 3 days to establish

  • Can You Enforce an Expired Patent?

    been discovered, until the time suit is filed. Filing of an action for infringement shall constitute such notice. SCA Hygiene v/s First Quality: On March 21 2017, the U.S. over First Quality's patent, SCA brought suit (about 7 years after SCA first notified First Quality in order to avoid any delay in filing the complaint against infringer.

  • Deciphering the PCT Application Process

    The international treaty that authorizes the filing of a single patent application to be treated as a to file a patent application in a large number of countries.  Filing: An international patent application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of a The international application must be filed in an authorized Receiving Office. on the international filing date.

  • 10 Prior Art Search Mistakes That Undermine Your Inter Partes Review

    An IPR petition may be filed by any person who is not the patent owner and who has not filed a civil IPR proceedings are available 9 months after the grant date for patents issued under the AIA first-to-file rules, and for all patents filed before the first-to-file rule took effect. before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.” 2. The filing date of a patent is the date on which the patent’s own application was filed.

  • Patent Monetization: Leveraging Technology For A Greater ROI

    The major motivation for these intellectual property rights was to leverage the first mover advantage In light of this, society coupled with the financial industry empowered with the evolving legal regime For example, Texas instruments is believed to be the first company to monetize in the 1990s its portfolio The infringer can also file a complaint for declaratory judgement against the plaintiff. · Trials occur You need an experienced firm at your disposal to help you glide through the process.

  • Are plastic straws finally on the way out?

    and even to South America where the natives modified the straw to make "bombillas" with sieves for filtering instantly knew his solution was revolutionary - he applied for a patent soon after - and received his first In 1916, George H Williams devised a drinking straw with a filtering gauze to prevent sand, dirt and In 1931, Maurice Hollingsworth disclosed the first flavored straws - applying a dry coating of flavoring Patent 2550797, introducing the first plastic bendy straw that consumers have used across the world for

  • Tokenization : Future of Payment Security

    Along with the many gains that come with going cashless today, financial digitisation also gives way OTHER TECHNOLOGIES Tokenization also works with alternate payment systems such as NFC payments (near field #fintech #patents #technology #security

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