US Patent 9043360 may have to be amended in view of the #Bradjelina separation/divorce proceedings
September 21, 2016Summary table of worldwide patenting costs per country
September 9, 2016Interesting list that breaks costs down by official fees/maintenance fees/translation costs/patent attorney fees
Maintained by a German Firm: Plate Schweitzer Zounek – Patentanwälte
Budget Québec: Baisse d’impôt pour encourager la commercialisation de propriété intellectuelle
March 17, 2016Extrait d’un communiqué de presse de l’AQT: http://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/le-gouvernement-envoie-un-signal-fort-en-faveur-des-pme-et-de-linnovation-pour-accelerer-le-developpement-economique-du-quebec-572480761.html
Baisse d’impôt pour encourager la commercialisation de propriété intellectuelle
Inspiré par la tendance internationale qui encourage la détention et la commercialisation de biens brevetés (Patent Box), Québec innove et met en place la Déduction pour les sociétés manufacturières innovantes (DSI). Les entreprises qui ont bénéficié des crédits R et D pour fabriquer du matériel ou de l’équipement faisant l’objet d’un brevet pourront bénéficier d’un taux d’imposition réduit à 4 % pour les revenus qui en découlent.
Détails voir Page 176-180 dans http://www.budget.finances.gouv.qc.ca/budget/2016-2017/fr/documents/PlanEconomique.pdf
Et pages 54 et suivantes : http://www.budget.finances.gouv.qc.ca/budget/2016-2017/fr/documents/RenseignementsAdd.pdf (définitions de brevets admissibles, etc.)
Feb. 12 in Patent History…
February 12, 2016Excerpt from Art Cashin comments: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/staticfiles/faw/adobe/all/cashin_comments.pdf
On this day (+2) in 1876, one of America’s most celebrated inventors was to learn the promise and punishment of punctuality. His name was Elisha Gray and he had already moved interactive communications light years ahead. He had invented an automatic relay for the telegraph which sped up communications by half. He then invented a trans-printer which read Morse code and printed the words in typeface. Partially inspired by the ease and speed provided by Gray’s inventions, the telegraph business took off.
That led to capacity constraints and demands for a telegraphic super highway. Since there was no fiber optics at the time, they needed something new. Gray decided to try sending simultaneous multiple messages by using a different musical tone for each message. It was ingenious….but still had a few bugs. And, while Gray worked on them, word spread that his new system had a special quality…..it could transmit the human voice. But Gray thought the ability to send eight telegraphic messages over the same wire simultaneously was more important.
While he plugged away at that, his partners warned that others (including Edison) were said to be working on voice transmission. So just to tie up loose ends, Gray dropped by the patent office to drop off his letter of intent on the telephone. Unfortunately, a guy named Alexander Graham Bell had dropped by just two hours earlier. That coincidence of time would result in patent lawsuits over the next three decades. In an odd twist, the lawsuits became so expensive that Bell and his father-in-law offered Western Union the rights to the telephone for just $100,000. In a decision studied in today’s business schools, Western Union replied…..We’re in the telegraph business not the phone business….and that’s where they stayed….If they had only realized they were in the communications business!!!! They might have ruled the world.
Happy Holidays! Joyeuses Fêtes!
December 22, 2015The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling
December 17, 2015Litigation between Canadian Tire and Walmart involving an industrial design
December 9, 2015Involves industrial design: 158920 in Canada
Investissement Québec offre capital de risque pour #PropriétéIntellectuelle dans industrie québécoise du jeu vidéo
November 18, 2015This day in History – a story involving an assignment of patents
November 10, 2015| From: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/staticfiles/faw/adobe/all/cashin_comments.pdf
On this day in 1899, neighbors watched a messenger deliver a note to an Austrian Engineer named David Schwartz. The note contained good news. The German Government was interested in producing Schwartz’s design of a lighter than air ship. (Actually he had borrowed the design of a Frenchman named Giffard some 47 years earlier and added the newly perfected combustion engine.) Anyway, the neighbors saw the messenger leave and the door close. They heard Schwartz screaming the equivalent in Austrian of – – “I’m Rich!! I’m Rich!!” Then the screaming got louder and with it the sound of a man dancing about in a joyous frenzy. Then it got quiet. The next sound they heard was Frau Schwartz screaming “He’s Dead!! He’s Dead!! (Schwartz got so excited about his good fortune he threw a seven.) A few month’s later a very kindly guy bought Schwartz’s patents and designs from the widow — for a rather nominal fee. What a prince! Or so you might think but he was not. He was just a Count – – Count Ferdinand Von Zepplin and there are rumors he did okay with the invention. It may be just as well. How could you watch a football game knowing some of the shots were coming from “the Goodyear Schwartz?” |
Canadian Government Technical Summary on #IntellectualProperty provisions of #TPP agreement
October 5, 2015Canada slips to #16 from #12 in 2015 Global Innovation Index
September 17, 2015A new online platform on renewable energy innovation and patents
August 24, 2015As described by the IPR Helpdesk:
A new online platform on renewable energy innovation
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in co-operation with the EPO and the International Electrotechnical Commission have launched a new online platform giving access to the world’s largest collection of global renewable energy standards and patent documents. Also known as INSPIRE, the International Standards and Patents in Renewable Energy platform is the first and most complete solution of its kind. Indeed, the patents section contains information on over two million patent documents relating to carbon mitigation technologies from PATSTAT – a patent statistics database and Espacenet – a public online patent search tool. The standards section enables users to search through a database of more than 400 internationally used standards and explains what standards are, how they can be used and why they are important.
You can read more and access the INSPIRE platform here.
Les “patent trolls” touchent (dans tous les sens du mot) tous les domaines…
July 24, 2015Patents related to personal pleasure…
http://gizmodo.com/sorry-you-cant-have-any-more-sex-toys-because-of-this-p-1719816692
Bel exemple des défis/étapes de commercialisation d’une invention en mécanique simple québécoise en instance de brevet
June 15, 2015Voir l’extrait de l’émission Carrefour Capital (un équivalent du Dragon’s Den…)
https://vimeo.com/110501754 (aller à la minute 31:52)
Voici le site web du produit: http://www.briro.ca/
Et la demande de brevet en instance: https://www.google.ca/patents/US20150027919
Who will drink from the #StanleyCup this year? A patent for people who want to live the experience #StanleyCupMoments
June 3, 2015Details of Proposed Amendments to Canadian IP Laws in Budget Bill
May 8, 2015See links:
Patent Act (including extending privilege to communications with Canadian patent agents)
TRADE-MARK AGENTS (including extending privilege to communications with Canadian trademark agents)
La recherche de coût pour un item/service la plus populaire aux États-Unis selon Google? – La recherche de coût d’un brevet
May 1, 2015(Au Canada c’est un passeport)
Infographique: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045496/infographic-of-the-day/how-much-for-a-camel-beer-or-prostitute-googles-most-popular-cost-sea
"C'est é-p@tent!" 
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