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 ...
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 ...
November 18, 2025 - As companies lean into AI innovation to revolutionize a wide range of industries, they will encounter opportunities to secure patents on their advances. Machine-learning-based ...
A general approach for determining when to patent, publish, or protect information as a trade secret
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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