Recipe Patents
May 4, 2012
Inventions, Inventors, Patents
Is it possible to patent food recipes in South Africa? The South African Patents Act does not reject recipes for patent protection, but recipes must be subject to the provisions of the Act. The recipe has to be new, involve an inventive step and be capable of being used in trade, industry or agriculture.
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A method of combining ingredients is patentable according to the Patents Act, but merely combining certain ingredients may only be patentable if the ingredients have never been combined before or the combining order is new. These combined ingredients would also have to result in something new and not be obvious.
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Paris Convention
March 7, 2012
Intellectual Property Information, Intellectual Property News
The Paris Convention applies to patents, marks, industrial designs, utility models, trade names, geographical indications and the repression of unfair competition. The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed in Paris, France, on March 20, 1883, and was one of the first intellectual property treaties.
The Paris Convention established a Union for the protection of industrial property. The Convention is still in force. As of December 2011, the Paris Convention has 174 contracting member states,which makes it one of the most widely adopted treaties worldwide.
Paris Convention Member States from Africa:
Algeria – Angola – Benin – Botswana – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cameroon – Central African Republic – Chad – Comoros – Congo – Côte d’Ivoire – Democratic Republic of the Congo – Djibouti – Egypt – Equatorial Guinea – Gabon – Gambia – Ghana – Guinea – Guinea-Bissau – Kenya – Lesotho – Liberia – Libya – Madagascar – Malawi – Mali – Mauritania – Mauritius – Morocco – Mozambique – Namibia – Niger – Nigeria – Rwanda – Sao Tome and Principe – Senegal – Seychelles – Sierra Leone – South Africa – Sudan – Swaziland – Togo – Tanzania – Tunisia – Uganda – Zambia – Zimbabwe
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Patent Lawyers AFRICA
February 23, 2012
Attorneys, Intellectual Property Information, Intellectual Property News, Inventions, Patents, Trade Marks ™ ®
Smit & Van Wyk, Inc. is an intellectual property law firm that specialize in obtaining and protecting your patent, trademark and design rights. Our focus is to provide legal services for intellectual property such as patents, trademarks and designs throughout Africa.
Our specialist patent and trademark lawyers serve international and local clients with patent filings and maintenance, and trademark registrations and renewals. We also provide legal advice on commercial rights attached to patents, trademarks and designs.
Our intellectual property services include:
PATENTS
Inventions : Biotechnology | Business Methods | Electrical | Electronic | Mechanical | Mining | Nanotechnology | Software
Patent applications, filings and registrations
Patent novelty search
Patent maintenance and renewals
Patent licensing
REGISTERED DESIGNS
Designs : Aesthetic | Functional | Industrial | Interaction | Patterns | Products
Design applications, filings and registrations
Design novelty search
Design maintenance and renewals
Design licensing
TRADEMARK
Marks : Combinations | Colors | Letters | Logos | Names | Numbers | Packaging | Shapes | Slogans
Trademark registrations
Trademark novelty search
Trademark maintenance and renewals
Trademark licensing
COPYRIGHT
Works : Books | Blogs | Broadcasts | Films | Novels | Photographs | Poems | Software Codes | Songs | Sounds
Copyright film registrations, U.S registrations
Copyright licensing
Smit & Van Wyk, Inc. also created an additional website with all the necessary information regarding intellectual property for all African countries. Here you can get information regarding the international treaties and member states, intellectual property offices, patent applications, design applications, trademark registrations, requirements and dates, as well as an in depth look at each country’s problems and infrastructure.
You can visit the international website here:
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Patent Laws in Europe: James Dyson
December 9, 2011
Inventions, Inventors, Patents
(CNN)
British innovator and inventor James Dyson built a multi-billion dollar empire from inventing vacuum cleaners.
He said patent laws across Europe are unhelpful for inventors and small businesses, and that he has been affected enormously by people copying his ideas.
James Dyson told CNN that the patent system in Europe needs to be radically overhauled.
He points to the red tape surrounding the patenting process as being a massive hurdle for businesses wanting to develop ideas.
James Dyson said that the problem with inventing is that as soon as you file a patent, competitors see what you are doing and they can work around it.
He is also an outspoken critic of Chinese counterfeiters, calling on governments to do more to protect intellectual property rights.
James Dyson calls for obvious disputes to be dealt with without the parties going through a protracted legal battle.
He also believes that a Europe-wide patent is the answer to the problem of “You have to file in each country, you have to translate in each country, sue in each country, renew in each country.
(CNN)
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Pfizer – Lipitor Patent expires
November 30, 2011
Patents
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Pfizer‘s patent for it’s popular cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor will expire on 30 November 2011, paving the way for more affordable generic versions.
Generic drugs have the same active ingredient as original drugs, but tend to be significantly less expensive.
More than 17 million people have been using Pfiser’s cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor, also know as Atorvastatin.
Atorvastatin is a member of the drug class known as statins, used for lowering blood cholesterol.
It also stabilizes plaque and prevents strokes through anti-inflammatory mechanisms.
The patent for Lipitor / Atorvastatin was scheduled to expire in June 2011, but Pfizer made arrangement with Ranbaxy Laboratories to delay the generic launch in the U.S. until November 2011.
The primary uses of Lipitor / Atorvastatin is for the treatment of dyslipidemia and the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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