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Utility models are used extensively in China to protect the shape, structure or the combination of shape and structure of a product which is fit for practical use.
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What is a copyright in the US? It is not only the copyright owner’s exclusive rights to control and exploit a copyrighted work through licensing and infringement actions, if necessary, but also a set of different, or maybe even conflicting, interests set forth in limitations and exceptions to copyright protection.
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Acquiring patent rights in Africa can be a complex process, as an applicant is required to interpret the various laws of each of the different states in which it requires protection.
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In the global economy, inventors need to be able to protect their IP rights worldwide. In the absence of a “global” patent or trademark, when a company makes an invention involving complex technology and a brand creation process, it needs to protect it in multiple jurisdictions.
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Africa is the second-largest continent in the world, both in area and population. If one includes the surrounding islands there are almost 60 territories with a population of more than one billion people.
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A claim of patent infringement in U.S. litigation is more often than not met by a defense of patent invalidity by “obviousness.”
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China has a long and proud cultural history of innovation–-its people have given us gun powder, the compass, paper and printing, to name but a few Chinese inventions. However, in modern times, PRC companies have developed little of their own independent technology.
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Recently China IP magazine was one of the first IP journals to cover a new IP trend in U.S. law.
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New copyright bill may cost search engines royalties
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Kodak may abandon patent auctionKodak said on Friday it may abandon efforts to sell a portfolio of digital imaging patents at auction, and has delayed indefinitely a court hearing to approve such a sale.
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