Software patents are regular patents, but instead of inventing a machine or a chemical formula, you invented a computer program. Not all software can... Read More The Importance of Claims in Patent Drafting: Understanding their Role and Function A patent is a grant of property rights to an...
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The predicted drops - expressed here as percentages of last year’s sales - represent the difference between “sales at risk” and expected total sales during the first full year post expiry. The percentages have been calculated using the accepted formula created byEvaluate Ph...
The Court in its majority opinion, and Judge Lourie’s concurrence, refused to overruleRosenandDurlingbased onKSR, but note a key caveat to their authority. InKSRthe Supreme Court rejected “rigid mandatory formula[s]” as limits on obviousness for utility patents, instead adopting a flexible ...
So a process or formula used to produce a product is a far more reasonable candidate to be treated as a trade secret. If a trade secret is stolen from you – and you can prove it – you do not sue for infringement (that only applies to patents and trademarks), you actually charge ...
The abstract may contain the chemical formula which best characterizes the invention. In an application for a patent which contains drawings, the applicant shall provide a figure which best characterizes the technical features of the invention or utility model. The scale and the distinctness of the ...
The claims may contain chemical or mathematical formulae but no drawings. They shall not, except where absolutely necessary, contain such references to the description or drawings as: "as described in part …of the description", or "as illustrated in Figure …of the drawings". The technical ...
or specify redemption procedures for winning tickets. The printed information 16 may show the final date for valid sale of the ticket 10. Whereas indication on the ticket of the selling price 12 and any of the abovementioned information 16 add utility to the lottery ticket 10 and enhance the...
(k) "LICENSED KNOW-HOW" means any and all technical information, discoveries, Improvements, processes, formulae, data, engineering, technical and shop drawings, inventions, Biological Materials, shop-rights, know-how and trade secrets which is useful or necessary to make, have made, use or ...
follow in September. Impax has first-to-file status with the FDA, so each formula will face only one generic rival for its first 6 months on the market. Multiple competitors will hit after that, kicking in price competition--and that's when the branded versions will begin to suffer most....