What Are the Key Conditions for Patent Protection? Securing patent protection requires inventors to navigate a complex web of legal criteria. Although specific regulations may vary by jurisdiction, several fundamental conditions are widely recognized as essential for patentability. Grasping these conditions can significantly improve the likelihood of successfully obtaining a patent. 1. Novelty Novelty refers…
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Scientists are key creators of intellectual property (IP), making it crucial for them to understand the fundamentals of IP rights. Having a solid grasp of IP not only allows scientists to recognize patentable inventions but also ensures they comply with institutional IP policies and make well-informed decisions when it comes to publishing their research or…
Every year on April 26th, the world celebrates World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD). In 2024, the theme takes on a particular significance: “IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity.” This theme highlights the crucial role that intellectual property (IP) plays in driving progress towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals…
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, the significance of intellectual property and its protection has never been more crucial. Patents, in particular, hold immense value as they safeguard groundbreaking inventions, encourage innovation, and drive economic growth. However, when it comes to crossing international boundaries, patent translation becomes an indispensable tool for effectively communicating ideas, ensuring…
In 2023, we celebrate the “can do” attitude of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs around the world and their ground-breaking work. For generations, women have shaped our world with their ingenuity and creativity. Women everywhere are: – Driving scientific breakthroughs, – Setting new creative trends, – Building businesses and transforming our world. Women…
1. What is an industrial design? Industrial design means a specific appearance of a product embodied by three-dimensional configurations, lines, colors, or a combination of these elements. Products herein are understood to mean articles, tools, equipment, or parts used for assembling such products, manufactured by industrial or handicraft methods, with a structure and clear function,…
1. Minimum documents – 02 Declaration for registration which are typed according to form No. 01-SC Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN; – 02 descriptions of the invention or utility solution; [a description of the invention or utility solution must satisfy the general requirements specified at Points 23.6 of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN and must…
Globalization creates opportunities in the modern world. A company with success in its national market will likely expand abroad. The market is gigantic, but human creativity knows no boundaries, and we always invent new things. Nowadays, medicine is so advanced that new medicines are created on a daily basis. It is very similar in other…
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention. In other words, a patent is an exclusive right to a product or a process that generally provides a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be…