Launched by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011, the Patent Pro Bono Program is currently being offered in all 50 states. Regional program administrators match inventors who qualify based on income threshold, residency and other requirements with local patent agents or attorneys...
Significant technological advancement and progress in the 21st century made the EU’s last century's set of rules that defined the personal data protection obsolete. Today’s data collection, process, and access methods no longer resemble the methods used two decades ago, complicated by the 28 EU...
Abstract An innovator biologic drug maker files a biologics license application (BLA) with the FDA for the grant of a license for commercial marketing of the novel biologic drug. For the first time, now ObamaCare allows a generic company to sell a biosimilar drug (generic version...
Intellectual property (IP) protection affects the economy by providing incentives to invent novel products and technologies that create jobs and boost the economy through the short-term monopolies to the inventors protecting from unauthorized copying. Patents are IP that may need to be appraised for accounting,...
Cardinal Intellectual Property (CIP) is the first intellectual property services company to receive certification under the new US-EU Privacy Shield data transfer program. “For our customers in the EU, protecting their private data is extremely important to us. Cardinal IP strives to support our customers with...
PATENT LAW UPDATE Canada (CA)[1]: Effective 11 October 2016, Canadian patents will be issued 6 weeks after the payment of the final fee (issue fee) in the application. Therefore, applicants have only 6 weeks to file divisional applications after the payment of the issue fee. Cambodia (Democratic...
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Ken Hyatt yesterday (January 11, 2017) announced the final approval of the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The Department of Commerce will begin accepting certifications on April 12, 2017.The Swiss and EU laws on data protection are equivalent....