Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
…. A General Introduction
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Key issue : Ownership of
Knowledge
versus
In 1970, the French designer Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) created and
successfully marketed a long black sleeveless tuxedo-like evening
dress, which the YSL fashion house reintroduced in their 1992
collection.
Ralph Lauren was selling a similar version of the dress in their 1992
collection.
YSL brought suit against Ralph Lauren under copyright infringement,
design infringement and unfair competition.
May 1994:
The court in Paris decided in favor of YSL
Court concluded that YSL owned the 1970 dress design under the law
on Designs and Models and also considered the dress design an
original copyrighted creation.
YSL was awarded damages of FFr 2 million. [50% for copyright
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Balancing of Interests
Private Public
Producer Consumer
Industrialized Economies Developing Economies
Monopoly Competition
“Private Interest Must Yield Public Good”
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Controlling Counterfeiting
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STRATEGIC ELEMENTS
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PROTECTION OFFERED BY EACH ONE OF THE TOOLS
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PERIOD OF VALIDITY
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GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS
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ENFORCEMENT FEATURES
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LICENSING ISSUES, BENEFIT SHARING
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OTHER LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
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Gillette
Gillette Company Asset Values (US $ million)
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Options available to the IPR
Holder
• Exploit the IPR himself
• License the IPR to another party (s) with mutually
negotiated benefit sharing arrangements
• Cross License for mutually independent working
and / or collaborative working
• Assign the IPR to another party (s) for an
appropriate return
• Barter rights
• Establish a franchise system involving other parties
• Take action against those who infringe his rights
• Let the rights selectively lapse in certain countries
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Realising Value
• Valuation of Knowledge
and IPR
• Licensing of IPR
• IPR Insurance
• IPR as a collateral
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How does one realise the value of
one’s intellectual assets
A structured audit is necessary
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Hello Kitty – New Jewellery Collection by Kimora
Lee Simmons and Judith Leiber
Hello Kitty's parent company, Sanrio, signed a licensing deal with powerhouses Judith
Leiber and Kimora Lee Simmons to produce a luxury accessory collection of the girls'
icon. »
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IPR Portfolio Building
Measuring IP Performance
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Beware !!!!
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Institutional IPR Policy
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Integrating IPR into business strategy &
project management
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Effective Use of IPR information
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Identifying areas of possible infringements
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Licensing strategy
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Policing of institutional IP assets
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Litigation strategy
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IPR audit
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Effective utilisation of International
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Building Competitive Edge
Patents and Designs
Registration…… a few
case studies
Professor Prabuddha Ganguli
CEO
“VISION-IPR”
201 Sunview Heights
262 Sher-e-Punjab, Andheri East
Mumbai 400 093
pgang@mtnl.net.in
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Anatomy of a Patent
Title, Inventors, Assignees, Date of filing,
Date of Publication, Date of Grant, A,
International Classification, National
Classification Application number, Patent
Number; Abstract
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Claims
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ELECTRIC PLAID PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS!
StitchSwitch™
Is it a computer display or a hand woven Embroidered and Woven
textile? Light Switches
IFM's Patent Pending Electric Plaid TM looks Woven and embroidered
like a beautiful, soft textile artwork, but touch sensors for
changes color like a computer display.
controlling lights or other
electronic devices in the
IFM's Electric Plaid is a unique textile display
technology and design material. It is used by home.
IFM to create hand woven, sensuous individual
artworks, interior design and architectural
surfaces. Electric Plaid combines woven
electronic circuits, color-change inks and drive
electronics, to add TIME AND MOTION to textile
patterns and design. Patterns change color
slowly over time, to give you information or
change the decor of the room. Electric Plaid is
a reflective (it doesn't light up!) color-change
medium. Electric Plaid can be combined with Electric Plaid™ Patent-Pending
IFM's textile sensors, StitchSwitch, to create Color-Change Textile Panels
fully interactive textiles and INTERACTIVE
ARTWORKS artworks
Need felt for lock-stitch for strength. A lock stitch is created by two separate
threads interlocking through the two layers of fabric,
resulting in a stitch, which looks the same from both sides of the fabric.
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Sewing Machines
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Sewing Machines
1856 The Sewing Machine Combination was formed,
consisting of Singer, Howe, Wheeler and Wilson,
and Grover and Baker.
These four companies pooled their patents,
meaning that all the other manufacturers
had to obtain a license and pay $15 per machine.
This lasted until 1877 when the last patent expired.
Fryett’s Hathi
Natural World’s
Festival Elephant
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Shirin Guild vs. Eskandar Ltd and Another
English High Court (02 February, 2001)
Court Decision:
Shirin Guild garments, made as prototypes
for mass-production, and being machine
made garments of a very simple design,
could not be regarded as works of artistic
workmanship or works of art. However,
Shirin Guild's modifications of the design
of the original Gigli sweater was sufficient
for her resulting designs to be original.
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Shirin Guild vs. Eskandar Ltd and Another
contd……..
• Eskander Nabavi had been designing chenille and tweed
sweaters of a wide, square design since early 1991
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Shirin Guild vs. Eskandar Ltd and Another
contd……..
• A partnership was formed between Shirin Guild and
Eskander Nabavi along with two other persons with each
partner having a 25 per cent share of profit. There was no
agreement that any copyright or design right originally
owned by Shirin Guild was to become partnership property.
Therefore Shirin Guild remained the sole owner of those
rights.
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Shirin Guild vs. Eskandar Ltd and Another
contd……..
• Observations by the court :
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Shirin Guild vs. Eskandar Ltd and Another
contd……..
• If a sufficient level of independent skill and labour
was used to modify an existing design, an original
design would result for copyright and design
purposes.
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CONTESSA FOOD PRODUCTS, INC. v CONAGRA,
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
01-1157
CONTESSA FOOD PRODUCTS, INC.
(formerly known as ZB Industries Inc.),
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
CONAGRA, INC.
(doing business as Singleton Shrimp Company and as
Meridian Products),
MERIDIAN SEAFOOD PRODUCTS, INC.,
and OCEAN DUKE CORPORATION
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 01-1157
DECIDED: March 13, 2002
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On remand, the district court is instructed to consider features, in
addition to the arrangement of the shrimp on the top of the tray,
regarding the underside of each of the accused products visible after the
packaging is removed. The overall features of the top, side and underside
of the accused products must be compared with the patented design as a
whole as depicted in all of the drawing figures to determine
infringement.
Because the district court did not fully consider the underside of the tray
illustrated in Figure 4 of the `612 patent when applying the "ordinary
observer" test, we vacate the decision granting summary judgment of
infringement and remand for further proceedings consistent herewith.
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Creating Institutional IPR Policies
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IPR Enabled Knowledge Incubation and Hi to L
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Wealth Realisation
Product Lifecycle
Competitive sustenance
Realisable Value of IP to Potential Value of IP
Market acceptability
IPR
Management Marketable Products/Processes
Alignment with market
Idea into product/process
Ideas Actionable
Ideas demonstrable
Idea Feasibility
Freezing of options
Position in the protected Value addition
Technology grid to Organisation
idea stage ..Technology & Market
development
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Business Opportunities
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Technology Options
( mapping exercise )
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Strategic Options
CONCEPTS
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Working through the
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IP grid
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Patents & other IPR
Filings/Registrations
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Strategy for
Foreign Filings
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PROCESS
Licensing Options
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Joint Developments
INNOVATION
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Fit in IPR Portfolio
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Marketing tieups
OUTPUT
Managing Intellectual Property
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Product Lifecycle
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Managing IPR Portfolio
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Monitoring IPR
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Policing IPR
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Enforcing IPR
Record Maintenance & Updating IPR Information
MARKET
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What do we do ?
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The IP Policy Process
• Recognise the Vision and Mission of the
Institute
• What are the various activities your
institution is involved in
• Interaction of the Institution with the
outside world
• Interactions within the institution
• What is the human resource policy the
institute say vis-à-vis benefit sharing
arrangements, etc.
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The IP Policy
• Who will sign on behalf of the organisation
• Which will be the team to advise on IPR
issues…. MOUs, protection, etc.
• What will be the channel to get it going on
the floor.
• Who owns what?..
• Documentation?
• Disclosures?
• Who will pay for the protection?
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The IP Policy
• When can the Institute Name or Logo be used?
• Faculty participating in courses outside… Can
Institution name be used?
• What will be the mechanism to identify
Institutional IPR infringements or activities in the
market that are damaging to the Institute’s
reputation? Who will initiate actions?
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Motivation for IP Protection and
Management
• IPR Management helps to integrate the
institution’s innovation process with a wide
range of R&D partnerships
• Institutional IPR encourages partnership with
other developers especially with SMEs in the
innovation supply chain.
• Optimal use of extra-institutional knowledge.
Avoid duplication and manage funs for R&D
effectively
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What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Achieving the VISION and MISSION of the
Institution.
• Stimulation of creativity and inventiveness through
Framework for Competence and Knowledge
Building
• Rationalisation of investment in human and capital
resources. Avoidance of duplication of R&D
• Optimal use of “Extra-institutional” knowledge
• Integration of the Institutional Innovation Process
with a wide range of R&D and Business Partnerships
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©VISION-IPR 2002
What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Timely Protection and Management of Institutional
Knowledge Assets…
• Encouragement of partnership with other developers
especially with SMEs in the Innovation Supply
Chain..
• Earnings from innovations to pay for further research
and acquiring other technologies ( e.g. licensing and
cross-licensing)
• Recognition to inventors and enhancement of ethical
standards in the Institution
• Transparent Benefit Sharing from IP earnings .
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What the Institutional IP Policy
Should Lead to…..
• Creating and retaining leadership in the Knowledge
Market.
• Academic Freedom to operate in a global
environment.
• Guarding the Institution from taking on undue
Financial and Legal liabilities.
• Effective enforcement of Institutions IPRs
• Enhancement of Institutional Image
• Assuring Long Term Growth of the Institution .
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Developing a Business Oriented
Curriculum and course Material
for IPR for NIFT
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Key points to consider
• NIFT’s Mission
• Sensitising Students to face a fierce global
competitive environment
• Creating Frameworks for NIFT Students and
Faculty to derive optimal value for their creations
• Effectively networking with commercial
organisations
• Upgrading professional skills in Indian Industry
• Creating new career options in a niche area of
global significance.
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IPR Modules
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