Patents

Patent of Addition

A patent is a proprietary right granted for protecting new inventions, which have an inventive step and can be applied…

2 years ago

Biopiracy: A Trespass Against Indigenous Lives

Indigenous and local communities withhold a great deal of treasured knowledge due to their close and ancestral affinity with nature,…

3 years ago

All About Patent Wars

In the wake of the industrial revolution and rapid diffusion of technology, the rate of acquisition of patents has also…

3 years ago

Extension of Waiver for Pharmaceutical Patents Until 2033

After a lot of intense negotiations and debates between the first-world countries and the third-world countries, the World Trade Organization…

3 years ago

Evergreening of Patents in South Africa

What is Meant by Evergreening of Patents? The term evergreening is used to refer to perceived attempts to extend the…

3 years ago

What Impact Does a Patent Race have on Innovation?

When we talk about patents, timing undoubtedly matters. In case two inventors are working on the same invention, then the…

4 years ago

Does the International Patent System Cover All the Countries Worldwide?

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), also widely referred to as the International Patent System, offers a common application mechanism to…

4 years ago

The UK will not seek Involvement in the Unitary Patent (UP) system

The UK government has quite recently made it very clear by confirming that, post-Brexit, the nation will not be a…

4 years ago

Nanoco Technologies Sues Samsung Alleging Patent Infringement

A UK-based nanotechnology company, Nanoco Technologies Ltd. (Nanoco) has quite recently filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co and affiliates…

4 years ago