TRIPS Agreement

The TRIPS Agreement contains the national treatment principle and the most-favored-nation principle. The latter principle provides that any advantage, favor, privilege or immunity granted by a Member to the nationals of any other country (whether a Member or not) shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other Members, with certain specified exemptions. As is the case for national treatment, procedures provided in multilateral agreements concluded...

Patent Thickets

In general the term “patent thicket” describes a situation where a product involves a web of patents that are owned by a number of different patentees so that a company which wants to commercialize the product is required to “clear” all the patents involved. This phenomenon is well-known in complex technologies, such as information and communication technologies, and in technical fields where a number of companies compete at the same level so that a fragmentation of patent...

The Budapest Treaty

The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure Disclosure of the invention is a requirement for the grant of patents. Normally, an invention is disclosed by means of a written description. Where an invention involves a microorganism or the use of a microorganism, disclosure is not always possible in writing but can sometimes only be effected by the deposit, with a specialized institution, of a sample...

35 USC 102 explained

"35 USC 102(a) THE INVENTION WAS KNOWN OR USED BY OTHERS IN THIS COUNTRY,OR PATENTED OR DESCRIBED IN A PRINTED PUBLICATION IN THIS OR A FOREIGN COUNTRY, BEFORE THE INVENTION THEREOF BY THE APPLICANT FOR PATENT"102(a) defines that US is a first to invent country and you are not going to get a patent if your invention was known (in written form usually) or used by others (practiced) by others in USA before date of invention, and if it was patented or was described in printed...

Some patent tools you must know

 Patent Library Patent Library allows users to search by patent number and get OCR'ed PDFs of patent  documents. ...

Sample Landscape reports

Patent Landscape Report on Desalination Technologies and the Use of Alternative Energies for Desalination click here to get report  Patent Landscape Report on Solar Cooking click here to get report...

Exceptions and Limitations of the Rights of patent - Top countries

USA 1. Solely for uses reasonably related to the development and submission of information under the Federal law which regulates the manufacture, use or sale of drugs and veterinary biological products, other than those products primarily manufactured using certain genetic manipulation techniques. 2. Certain uses concerning foreign vessels, aircraft or vehicles which temporarily or accidentally enter national territory. 3. As regards business method patents, continued...