You probably know a feeling of slight shock of the translation costs for a patent application when trying to get protection of the invention in other countries. And, it could be fine regarding a translation from Russian into English. But, what about the one from Russian to Georgian, Uzbek or another “exotic” language. The costs are terrible to imagine...

Everyone who has ever faced the issue of protecting his / her own intellectual property knows that a patent for an invention is valid for 20 years. But is 20-year protection period enough from a practical point of view? For example, consider a new drug protection in the United States. Patent life begins on the date of filing a patent application with the Patent Office. Often, to “mark out” the new drug for themselves, companies file patent applications at the stage of the new drug development, and often claim a wide group of compounds, which includes...

We often hear the expression that all ingenious is simple. The most ingenious inventions are the simplest. Can this expression be attributed to an invention from the point of view of patent law? To obtain a patent, and, therefore, to be protected, an invention must meet three patentability requirements...

Store owners, like any entrepreneurs interested in making a profit in return for the huge labor and resources they invested in, actually want to get this profit and not miss the client. Thus, Amazon Technologies, Inc., which owns a well-known chain of bookstores and a lesser-known chain of grocery stores, filed a patent application for invention US 13 / 464,602 in the United States on May 4, 2012. Since the examination of patent applications is not a quick process, patent US 9,665,881 was issued...

December 2019, Apple has filed several patent applications for inventions in the United States including an application US 20200213311 A1 entitled "PROVIDING VERIFIED CLAIMS OF USER IDENTITY". The idea of the development arose due to problems with the technical possibilities of identifying a user when working with the Apple Pay application and making payments. According to the vice-president of Apple, to be legal, the person must be identified by the government using the documents identifying that person. But, in this case, what about Internet payments, which require the user identification to succeed?

Since 2017, the European Patent Office (EPO) has been conducting its own Academic Research Program. The aim of this initiative is to encourage scientific works, which highlight the interaction between intellectual property sphere (IP) and the European economy. Within Academic Research Program, grants will be given to projects studying the following thematic areas...