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  10 Intellectual Property Strategies For Technology Startups By Richard Harroch and Neel Chatterjee Intellectual property issues often are among the most important considerations that a technology startup will encounter. A startup will face numerous issues involving developing a product, hiring qualified employees, raising capital, and more. With all of these issues, intellectual property can feel distracting, expensive, or contrary to the goals of just getting a product to market before someone else does. However, intellectual property is often the most valuable asset of a technology startup. Protecting intellectual property can be essential to obtaining venture capital funding or preventing competitors from unfairly competing with you. In this article, we provide 10 critical intellectual property strategies for you to implement. 1. Keep your employment work separate from your new idea It is certainly scary to give up a current paycheck and take the risk of working long hours on ...

Patent Law Doesn’t Need To Recognize AI Inventors by  Hodan Omaar   June 25, 2020 AI-generated inventions do not exist, at least not in the eyes of the law. Earlier this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rightly  rejected two patent applications that named an AI system as inventor  making clear its position to limit inventorship only to human beings, even when it is an AI system that is functionally inventing.   The AI inventor at the heart of this case is DABUS, an AI system that mimics the neural patterns of the human mind to independently combine basic concepts into a complex idea that it can self-identify as original. Stephen Thaler, who created DABUS, listed the AI system as the inventor of two ideas; interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp and a warning light that flashes in a rhythm that is hard to ignore.  Thaler argues that the law should recognize DABUS, rather than him, as the inventor of...

DELHI HIGH COURT CLARIFIES THE EXTENT OF ‘SAFE HARBOUR’ PROVISIONS FOR INTERMEDIARIES Article by Khaitan & Co.  On 2 November 2018, the Delhi High Court (High Court), in Christian Louboutin SAS v Nakul Bajaj and Others (Civil Suit No. 344/2018) has laid down certain guiding principles in respect of liability of e-commerce platforms as intermediaries and the ambit of ‘service’ as has been used in the definition of ‘intermediaries’ under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act). Background The plaintiff claimed intellectual property rights over the name ‘Christian Louboutin’, which is the name of its founder, Mr Christian Louboutin, a designer of high-end luxury products. The dispute pertained to the sale of “Christian Louboutin” products by the defendants on its website (Darveys.com), using the image and the name of Mr Christian Louboutin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants attracted traffic on their website by using the names “Christian” and “Louboutin” ...