February 2009 Blog Posts (11)

New page: IP News

IP News includes at the moment:
• intellectual property news from European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Organization;
• IP Newsflash - intellectual property news within the last 24 hours and latest notices of the patent and trademark offices within the last 7 days;
• Law360 IP News;
• Thomson Delphion Daily IP News.

Added by Mikk Putk on February 27, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

IPscore - New Patent Valuation Tool

The EPO’s has launched the new Patent Portfolio Management and patent evaluation software “IPscore”. The software can now be downloaded free of charge. The EPO has purchased IPscore from the Danish Patent Office who developed it in close co-operation with industry.

Competitive Info

Added by Ramesh Verma on February 26, 2009 at 8:56am — No Comments

Competitive Info

This blog contains information which is used in competitive intelligence and data mining specially in field of intellectual propert rights.
http://vramesh.wordpress.com/

Added by Ramesh Verma on February 26, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Settling IP Litigation with License Agreements

(PHOTO BY Jason Matthews)

I am slowly coming to understand the power of LinkedIn, recommended to me by my favorite marketing guru (not just my web log guru) Kevin O'Keefe at LexBlog.

LinkedIn not only connects you with your market's markets, it also provides some pretty high level advice. Here, I reprint an answer to the question: What's…

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Added by Victoria Pynchon on February 24, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Friends of Indian Innovators

Aynampudi. Subbarao invites you to join Friends of Indian Innovators on LinkedIn.
Link:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=161546

Added by aynampudi subbarao on February 24, 2009 at 6:33am — No Comments

U.S. PATENTS 101: A GUIDEBOOK ON PATENTS AND PATENTING FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION………………………..............................................… 3

II. WHAT IS AN INVENTION?………..............................................…… 3

A. Conception…………………………….............................................… 5

B. Reduction to Practice………………….............................................. 6

C. Joint Inventorship……………………..............................................… 8

III. WHAT MAKES THE INVENTION PATENTABLE?….…………………… Continue

Added by Mikk Putk on February 21, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

IP Healthcheck

How the free IP Healthcheck helps you

The free IP Healthcheck helps artists, artisans, inventors, sole traders and small and medium-sized businesses identify, protect and commercially exploit their intellectual property (‘IP’), such as trade marks, copyright works, patents, designs and design rights, and confidential information. It will help you find out:

* If you have IP to protect.

* Whether you own it and, if you don’t, who does.

* How to protect it, and… Continue

Added by Mikk Putk on February 20, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

Enneolematu olukord Eesti intellektuaalomandi valdkonnas

Mis siis nii enneolematut küsiks nii mõnigi ja kergitaks kulmu. Kes pisut valdkonnaga kursis, see ilmselt teab, et võimalused end intellektuaalomandi valdkonnas Eestis täiendada on suhteliselt piiratud, kui mitte olematud.

Nüüd on aga äkitsi korraga pakkumisel suhteliselt väikeste vahedega toimuvaid koolitusi ühtekokku koguni viis.

Käsitletavad teemad jagunevad seinast seina:

Kuidas rakendada intellektuaalse omandi õigusi enda…

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Added by Mikk Putk on February 17, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

OECD has published Patent Statistics Manual

Table of contest:

Foreword

Acronyms

Chapter 1. Objectives and Scope of the Manual

Chapter 2. Patents as Statistical Indicators of Science and Technology

-2.1 Introduction

-2.2. Legal foundations of patents

-2.3 Administrative routes for protection

-2.4. Economic foundations of patents

-2.5. The information content of patent documents

-2.6. Patents as statistical indicators of inventive activity

-2.7. Patent… Continue

Added by Mikk Putk on February 17, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Full list of IPE Patent Search Toolbar content

Download: http://ipestonia.ourtoolbar.com/

In the drop-down search menu of IPE Patent Search Toolbar there are following search fields included.

Want to use them all, just download the toolbar… Continue

Added by Mikk Putk on February 17, 2009 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Using “Batikmark” as a First Step to Extend Protection of Indonesian Javanese-batik Patterned Textile in Foreign Countries

by Charles Knobloch, JD, PG and Dewi Savitri Reni, S.H., LL.M.

After tensions with Malaysia and others on ownership of traditional heritage, the Indonesian Government appears to have become assertive in protecting its heritage. Indonesia perceived that Malaysia claimed ownership to expressions of traditional Indonesian heritage, such as Javanese batik-patterned textiles, wayang shadow puppets and the folk song Rasa Sayange (a song believed to have originated from the island of… Continue

Added by Charles Knobloch, JD, PG on February 5, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments