Archive for the ‘Patents’ Category

Regardless of the size of your business operation, whether you are a large corporation or a single entity on your own, inventing new product enhancements and new products requires a lot of work. It takes energy, creativity, motivation, intelligence, time, money, and failure. This is why it is important to patent your ideas and protect them with patent laws. This is also why patent infringement is more than just a financial threat – it's insulting your work and your abilities, the equivalent to cheating on an exam – someone steals your ideas and makes them their own. It is important to protect yourself from this which is one of the fastest growing 'white collar' crimes in the United States.
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<p>The product patent rule was amended on May 11, 2006 and as a result the newly formulated rule brings in much more transparency and decentralization of the functioning of patent office India. As per the changes patent applications have to be published within a period of one month after the expiry of official 18 months. In case if the party involved requests for an early publication such application should be published before one month starting from the date of request.</p>
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One of the questions that patent holders may have is "who can be sued in a patent infringement lawsuit?" By law, any person who makes, uses, offers or sells something that is protected by a current patent, or who imports into the United States anything that is protected by a current patent, is guilty of patent infringement. Likewise, anyone that makes, uses, offers or sells any product or process that intentionally contributes to it is guilty of infringement as well. Finally, anyone who induces any action that infringes upon a current patent is guilty.
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