Generally it is easier for inventors or others who have a patentable invention to find sources of funding than it is to find funding purely for intellectual property protection. However, that being said there are also grants available for small businesses which can be used to pay for some of the fees associated with registering your trade marks and domain names.You don’t even have to visit the library to access some their resources. On their website, you can find a whole range of articles and webcasts that provide information. You can also complete a free e-course on intellectual property.If you [...]

In the case of Agilent Technologies Deutschland GmbH v Waters Ltd (2005), the claimant, the proprietor of a European patent for a pump and control system, brought proceedings against the defendant for patent infringement. The patent is for a pump for delivering solvent under pressure to high-pressure liquid chromatography columns. In particular, the patent relates to the control of the flow rate of the pump by altering the stroke volume and the frequency of reciprocation of the pistons.In earlier proceedings, the court had found that an earlier version of the defendant’s device (the ‘automatic device’) infringed the claimant’s patent and [...]

Intellectual property is about first time creation of some new literary and artistic work, names, designs, inventions etc and can be basically divided into two broad categories. They are, Industrial property Copyright Under industrial property comes various industrial inventions and patents, industrial designs and different location of sources of the property. Inventions can be patented only when it satisfies certain criteria. These include the fact that it should be of practical use and it must be a new concept not yet known in the concerned technical field. In many countries patentability is excluded in certain areas and it is not [...]