August 2024

INTRODUCTION Sustainable Development (SD) grew to become a significant worldwide agenda merchandise within the later many years of the 20th century. The definition of SD that’s most used is discovered within the 1987 Brundtland report, Our Common Future: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet

To conclude our collection on Intellectual Property (IP) subjects within the MENAP area, our three authors, Jan Wrede (Dubai), Shaukat Ali (Lahore) and Yasir Masood (Dubai), held an open panel discussion hosted by Othman Altamimi (Riyadh). Mr. Altamimi is a Saudi lawyer and holds a Master of Laws in IP from the University of New

By Kevin E. Noonan — In Natera Inc. v. NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc. the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court’s grant of a preliminary injunction towards NeoGenomics in patent infringement litigation involving Natera’s U.S. Patent Nos. 11,519,035 and 11,530,454 directed to strategies for amplifying focused genetic materials and strategies for detecting variations in genetic materials indicative

Access to exact and dependable data is important whereas engaged on groundbreaking applied sciences, product enhancements, or technical options. Finding correct solutions to analysis questions well timed could make or break an R&D undertaking. However, with the rising quantity of scientific literature, patents, and technical paperwork, 66% of researchers really feel overwhelmed by the revealed

In the trendy period of Intellectual Property (IP) — i.e., the final 150 years or so — it has all the time been a on condition that patents, copyrights, emblems, service marks, design rights and all different IP rights can or will expire. Businesses, inventors and professionals within the IP subject function as they do

On August 20, 2024, a single-judge bench of the IP Division of the Madras High Court (MadHC) issued an Order (pdf) with notable observations about the feasibility of permitting a counterclaim in a trademark rectification petition filed underneath Sections 47 (cancellation of trademark on the grounds of non-use) and 57 (rectification of trademark) of the

In a current determination ([2024] EWHC 1727 (IPEC)) on exhaustion of trade marks, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), a part of the High Court of England & Wales, held that AGA Rangemaster Group Limited (AGA) had respectable causes to object to the gross sales and advertising actions of a firm which offered second-hand AGA cookers

The oldest confirmed musical devices on Earth date again greater than 40,000 years, and it’s doable that prehistoric people produced sounds just like singing earlier than refined speech entered tradition. In different phrases, music has been a part of human society for so long as there was human society. Like different works of authentic artwork,

At first look, the subject of trademark eligibility appears apparent: Only enterprise and product names can be trademarked. But the fact is much more advanced. Knowing precisely what Intellectual Property (IP) can be protected with a trademark is pivotal for any creator or group searching for to advertise and defend their model id. The energy