ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO BE NAMED AN INVENTOR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – INTELLEGENT ENOUGH TO BE NAMED AN INVENTOR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?

The fathers of the field, Minsky and McCarthy, in 1950s described artificial intelligence as any task performed by a program or a machine that, if a human carried out the same activity, we would say the human had to apply intelligence to accomplish the task.

Artificial intelligence (AI) a legal inventor?

In this blog we look at the outcome of a prominent case in … Read More

IP (Intellectual Property) Strategies for Medical Devices

IP Strategies for Medical Device Technologies

Medical Devices cover a wide variety of products like surgical implants, diagnostic kits, drug delivery systems, etc. which can be protected and monopolized via various Intellectual Property Rights, as and when they are created at various stages of development.

Medical device development and introduction in any market requires strong requires strict regulatory compliance and Intellectual Property (IP) clearance and protection.

Medical device development requires simultaneous … Read More

WHAT IS PRIOR ART SEARCH OR PATENT SEARCH?

Patent search or Prior art search

Prior art search is an essential step to ensure that an invention is new and has not been reported or known to the public in any form. An inventor may wish to perform a thorough prior art search before or during the development of his/her idea. A thorough prior art search ensures that amount of time and money being invested in development of the idea … Read More