University researcher Dr. Carston Wagner spent most of the last 10 years inventing and developing a new drug compound that could fight AIDS and cancer. It has enough promise that in 2002 the ...
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have recently developed a new lab-made enzyme that mimics natural enzymes in effectively degrading toxic chemicals in industrial wastewater in the ...
Masato Iida of Shiga International Patent Office explains how the inventive step obstacle can be cleared when preparing a patent application and presents several case studies based on combination ...
The Guidelines for Patent Examination stipulates in Part 2, Chapter 4 that the baseline of determining the inventive step is the "Tripartite" approach, in which factors such as "commercial success" ...
Intellectual property (IP) law provides two different and conflicting ways to protect technology: patent and trade secret protection. A patent protects new and useful inventions. With patent ...
In January of this year Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, paid a homecoming visit to Chicago and his alma mater, the University of Chicago. The local press covered ...
The most common rejections of such inventions issued by the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (MIIP) make reference to a lack of a technical problem disclosed in the specification of the ...