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The Vulnerability of Coders’ Rights   Open source has thrown open the gates to the massive digital world. The entire world has started functioning on the internet with many organizations and companies, be it in the private sector or public sector. The internet contains information about several things. You need to find out about anything, just punch the re..

Have you decided the license for your open source software? Unlike your driving license, your license for creating open source software is more complex than you think. Which licenses can you choose and which one is better? This article may give you a little clue on that. When you start to create open source software, you are creating something valuable and useful for..

Patents and patent law, though always having a single definition throughout history, has had several goals which have evolved over the years. It was initially a form of producing added revenue as an alternative to taxation. Eventually, patents were defined with the inventor's best interests in mind and giving them power for their work, allowing them capitalize on their inv..

What is a Patent?A patent is a type of intellectual property, consisting of an exclusive set of rights granted by a sovereign entity to an inventor for a limited period of time. The procedure for awarding patents, the requirements placed on the inventor (or patentee) and the extent of the rights offered will vary between countries based on national laws and international treati..

  Summary of Patently Offensive   The term patently offensive refers to obscenity law under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  The term now mainly address broadcasting standards under the Federal Communications Commission, but it also applies to publications like adult magazines and other types of adult material.   ..

The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first statute passed into United States federal law to address the issue of businesses improperly acting in concert with each other to gain unfair advantages over competitors and in regard to consumers. It was passed into law on July 2, 1890. It exists in the United States Code in Sections 1 through 7 of Title 15. Legal scholars and political h..

The Evarts Act of 1891 created the United States court of appeals system. It is named for Senator William M. Evarts, the main advocate for the law's passage. It is also referred to as the Judiciary Act of 1891 and the Circuit Courts of Appeals Act. This legislation created the system of the court of appeals in the United States. With the existence of a specific system of courts..

Defenses in patent infringement cases are not always pertinent to actual legislation, but rather actual terms or definitions of the United States patent laws. An excellent example is with the term patent history estoppel. Patent history estoppel, also known as file wrapper estoppel, a term that is unique to American patent laws. The term simply refers to a person or party that ..

At the conclusion of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), an international patent convention, a specific set of rules and guidelines were established to create a patent application structure for all participating countries. A patent application which is filed at one of the many official patent offices located around the world, is known as an international application or PCT app..