Articles, tagged with "patent protection", page 3
01st August 2009
Inventors need patent firms that can give them application and patent protection services. Having a patent law firm with experienced attorneys on your side can help you prevent others from using your intellectual property. It is therefore important for yo...
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Author:
David Done
15th June 2009
Tommy China Business Consulting Provides practical assistance to International SME establishing and expanding business in China.
If you work for a manufacturing or retail company and have not yet moved operations beyond domestic borders, someone in your...
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Author:
Tom Lee
07th May 2009
For much of its history, the pharmaceutical industry lived a charmed life as it enjoyed a string of brilliant successes. Companies developed powerful new drugs, marketed them heavily, and created reliable streams of revenue. The generic pharmaceutical ind...
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Author:
Suzanne Long
16th April 2009
Are you running your business into the ground? Thats what you are doing if you aren't innovating. It's "innovate or die" you know. Products have a life cycle. Eventually they die. You have to continually give birth to new products in order to keep yo...
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Author:
Dee Reavis
30th January 2009
Protecting drug patents is an important effort in the global fight against disease. By protecting drug patents, the creators of these drugs can obtain a window to recoup the massive financial investment of creating a new medication. Without that opportuni...
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Author:
James Njoroge
30th January 2009
Latin America has made great strides in protecting pharmaceutical patents still held by the intellectual property holders. Through free trade agreements such as NAFTA as well as some decisions made by South American governments, particularly Brazil, pharm...
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Author:
James Njoroge
31st October 2008
The bad news for bisphosphonate bone drugs just keeps on coming. The issue of commonly used bisphosphonates like Fosamax causing atrial fibrillation has been hotly debated for over a year. The latest study presented this week at the 74th annual intern...
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Author:
Byron J. Richards
03rd April 2008
About 50% of all prescriptions in the United States, and more than 40% of all prescriptions in Canada are filled with generic medications. With such a huge popularity, Generic drugs undoubtedly provide a major benefit to the society. The healthcare system...
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Author:
mark wilson
11th February 2008
IPR - Briefing Note
Intellectual property rights ("IPRs") are intangible rights granted by statute and serve a dual purpose. Firstly they reward investment of risk capital utilised for creating new materials that fall under their ambit. Secondly they...
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Author:
Leigh Ellis
23rd August 2007
You are a business owner with a web presence. During a routine Google search for your page ranking, you discover something disturbing. There is another company out there with a name very similar to yours and almost identical content on their website. W...
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23rd July 2007
Once you file your patent application in the United States, you have started a clock running that when it runs out will prevent you from getting a patent in a foreign country if you don't take timely action. That clock runs for one year.
Your alternat...
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Author:
Terry Williamson
26th June 2007
If you do not protect your invention by means of filing a patent application, anyone can steal your invention and profit from it themselves.
While a patent application does not provide the benefits of patent protection, that is to exclude others from m...
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Author:
Brian R. Rayve, Esq.
11th May 2007
*This article is for non-practitioners seeking to familiarize themselves with the basics of patent types and patentability requirements. This article is Part II of a four part series. Parts III and IV will follow in biweekly installments, and will addre...
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05th March 2007
Post TRIPS Effects
The TRIPS Agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is to date the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property.
1. For the purposes of the TRIPS Agreement, "intellectual property" refers to: ...
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Author:
sagarbiotech
15th February 2007
Giant Merck, a major growth stock for 50 years has seen that growth slowing down along with Pfizer and the rest of the major drug companies. Merck has latched onto a new strategy to build sales again, but it's not just Merck and Pfizer that are suffering....
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Author:
Richard Stoyeck