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At times, certain types of tasks can appear to be difficult, despite being simple, if no services exist to meet the requirements. The need to conduct quick searches is a typical task for many of our clients. Our clients engaged in research projects often need information quickly.A service offered by SciTech Patent Art is SwiftSearch, which is designed to accommodate the quick search requiremen...

We are living in a rapidly evolving world with a dynamic lifestyle. As a result, newer diseases are emerging as well as existing diseases such as hypertension are becoming more prevalent. The theme of World Hypertension Day 2023 is “Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer”. By improving the accuracy of Blood Pressure (BP) measurement methods, appropriate corrective action c...

  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established World Intellectual Property Day that is celebrated every April 26, to increase public awareness about intellectual property (IP) and its role in encouraging innovations for economic development.The theme of World IP Day 2023 is "Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity", to celebrate the "can-do" attitude of women i...

The fashion industry, like its counterparts in other industries, has been using technology to meet its sustainability goals. Luxury brands like Prada, and fast-fashion ones like H&M, have been using ECONYL®, an innovative regenerated nylon material in their products. In an attempt to reduce the usage of plastic, H&M announced that it would be using recycled sequins as embellishments.[/vc_c...

This article is a sequel to our earlier discussion about “Develop products with confidence using early-stage Freedom-To-Operate (FTO) searches”. It is our continued commitment to emphasize the importance of FTO assessments, given the increasing number of patent applications and grants, that have resulted in an increased risk of patent infringement.A freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis is an impo...

CONNECT-THE-DOTS In today's rapidly changing business environment, R&D organizations must constantly renew their technology strategies by leveraging both internal and external knowledge. The internal knowledge of an organization represents a unique understanding of its business models and technologies. However, internal knowledge is often limited by the organization's current perspective, w...

One of the primary steps that companies take towards protecting their Intellectual Property rights is to patent their inventions. In addition, companies should be able to monetize their patent portfolios by making or selling products. Contrary to common belief, patents do not guarantee a product's commercial success, although they grant applicant rights to exclude others from making, using or sell...

A recent conversation with one of our clients prompted us to reinforce our belief that early-stage freedom to operate (FTO) searches are business critical. Our client, a corporate R&D organization, informed us of a situation in which one of their teams spent significant time working on product development. Just as when they were getting ready to develop their marketing / commercialization stra...

Patentability An Introduction: “Patentability” refers to the substantive conditions that must be met, for an invention, to be patented. The invention must satisfy the requirements under the context of a national or international patent system. An invention is patentable if it meets the related legal conditions to be granted a patent. The invention must meet the following patentability requirem...

Freedom to Operate (FTO) – an introduction: Freedom to operate search is an imperative due diligence step to be performed for any organization prior to commercializing a newly developed product or process. Freedom to operate searches help identify any potential infringement on the intellectual property (IP) rights of another party.A Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis involves a search of pat...