Entries Tagged 'Intellectual Property Rights (I P R)' ↓

Is it a Car?
Is it a Plane?
No it is Superman pop group with many CD’s to there name

Trademarks are awarded in 35 goods classes and 11 service classes so you need to apply for a class that fits your product. The Intellectual Property Office has a list of classes and web guidance.

There is something of the Pirate in all the MPs who have claimed excessive expenses and flipped during the last parliament.
Now we have a political party that has a clear view on the unnecessary criminalisation of file sharing and limits to free speech by excessive surveillance. Well worth a skull and cross on polling day.

See International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Gods Own County Avast expense account my ‘earties should see an outbreak of plank walking.

Pa-Pa, pa-pa,pa-pa,pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. Pa-pa, pa-pa,pa-pa,pa-pahhhhhh..pah! or so goes Pearl and Dean’s theme tune for cinema advertising. The company is to be sold by STV this month.

Another annoying little jingly tune is used by directory enquiry company 118247 and a competitor is using a version of ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’.

The Pa of Pa-pa etc was Pete Moore who wrote the tune Asteroid.

A patentable   invention must be new, have an inventive step that is not obvious to someone with knowledge and experience in the subject and be capable of being made or used.
The patent helps you prevent others from making, using, importing or selling your invention without permission for up to 20 years and also allows you to:

* sell the invention and all the intellectual property (IP) rights
* license the invention to someone else but retain all the IP rights
* discuss the invention with others in order to set up a business based around the invention.

‘Henry VI granted the earliest known English patent for invention to John of Utynam in 1449. The patent gave John a 20-year monopoly for a method of making stained glass, required for the windows of Eton College.’ IPO

‘Prior Art is all information that has been made available to the public in any form that is relevant to a patent’s claims of originality.’ (wikipedia)
To be valid prior art, it is necessary to ‘provide a description sufficient to inform an average worker in the field’. Publication can be in any form including, patent applications, textbooks, newspapers, lectures, or via the internet.

Consider using a form of publication of your prior art to avoid the cost of patent protection. It could, at worst, give you the opportunity to continue using your technology under ‘Prior Use’ rights that trade secrets may not.

Warning as with all things with a legal bias you need to take care in proportion to your risk and reward.
Prior-Art-O-Matic generates a bit of fun on the subject of Prior Art.

Patent Storm ‘offers the full-text U.S. patents and patent applications from the U.S. Patent Office’. In this case the process of a dwarfism gene which produces a petunia plant and flower which are reduced in size.

Plant Breeders’ Rights PBR’s are a form of intellectual property that offers legal protection for the investment plant breeders make in breeding and developing new varieties.

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