For inventors, patents represent a significant asset with immense untapped revenue potential. However, many struggle to actually generate a return on their intellectual property investments. Through strategic patent monetization, inventors…
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Can you use technology that is patent protected?
Patents are legal instruments that provide inventors with exclusive rights over their patent protected innovations for a period of about 20 years. In other words, these rights allow inventors to…
How can you minimise patent risk for your product?
Like marketing and competition risks, products can also be associated with patent risk. If a product is patent-protected by a third party and you happen to commercialise it, the patent…
What is patent opposition system in India?
Patent opposition refers to rights conferred to a third-party to oppose the grant of a patent. The patent opposition system in India is governed by section 25 of Indian Patent…
Independent and dependent claims in a patent
Claims in a patent mean clauses that define the extent of protection conferred by that patent. Independent and dependent claims in a patent define the scope of an…
Patent Infringement: Apple v/s PanOptis Patent Management LLC
A District Court in the Eastern District of Texas has recently ordered Apple to pay $506.2 million for patent infringement, to a Patent Management company called PanOptis Patent Management…
How to check whether your product causes potential patent infringement
In this article, we understood what are patents and the advantage patent owners enjoy over others working in their technical domain. Let’s see things from another perspective and imagine you…
What are patents and why you need to know?
What are patents? Several new inventors or techies want to understand what are patents but sometimes find it a bit complicated to understand because of complex legal language and varying…