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Tesla Motors to “Open Source” its patents.

Tesla Motors, America’s leading Manufacturer of electric cars has taken a curious step of an \”open source\” approach for its technology patents, to encourage development of electric cars.  This step was taken with an intension to attract and motivate talented employees and to accelerate the mass market advancements of electric cars for sustainable transport. Tesla …

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Ford to license its inflatable seat belts.

Ford, American multinational auto maker company is all set to license its inflatable seat belts. Ford combines two safety features like airbags and seat belts in its revolutionary inventions. According to the reports, this safety innovation will keep the rear passenger intact in an event of crash specially the children and the elders. The company …

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Free Machine Translations for Korean Patents

The Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (\”KIPRIS\”) began providing a free Korean-to-English machine translation service of published and registered Korean patents and utility models. This free Korean-to-English machine translation service will make it much easier to access Korean patents, utility models and published applications in a more cost-efficient manner. The KIPRIS website, available in …

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Live Webinar

How to avoid worthless patents and develop a strong patent portfolio? Have you ever tried googling “most patents are worthless”? You will find a lot of good information on why most patents are worthless and why you shouldn’t be spending a lot of money on patents, especially when you are a small company. Now, you …

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Patent Grant Trends- May 2014

The Indian patent office granted 646 Patents for the month of May, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, with a count of 35, 21 and 10 patents respectively. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number …

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An invention which saved millions of lives

An invention was made to stop the spread of a deadly disease caused by reused syringe. The credit to this invention goes to Marc Andrew Koska. He is best known for inventing the non-reusable K1 auto-disable syringe, thus preventing the medical transmission of blood-borne diseases. In 1984 Koska read a newspaper article predicting the transmission of HIV through …

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62 patents granted to Apple Inc.

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 62 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. earlier this month. Among which there were 6 design patents. Three patents related to Graphical user Interface. And one related to Display screen.  In total Apple Inc is granted 249 patents. USPTO granted in total 6962 patents on …

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Multi-Year License Agreement

InterDigital, Inca wireless research and Development Company recently announced that the company\’s patent licensing subsidiaries have entered into a patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  The royalty-bearing license agreement sets forth terms covering the sale by Samsung of 3G, 4G and certain future generation wireless products. \”We are very happy to have resolved the …

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