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"Old" nobility tried to distance themselves from the holders of newly acquired patents. In Germany and Austria, for example, "the patent was a ticket of entry, not a membership card": multiple decades should have passed after ennoblement before the "ancient nobility" with roots predating the patent system (so called uradel), would consider ...
The ranks in nobility were also reduced to practically the lowest one based on the truly common designation of "datu" equating it fully to being a "cabeza de barangay" or head of a barangay or town district, with an opportunity for a noble to be elected as "gobernadorcillo" or town governor by the same nobles.
In the Spanish colonial era, Philip II of Spain decreed that the nobility in the Philippine islands should retain their pre-hispanic honours and privileges. [ b ] In the modern times, these are retained on a traditional basis as the 1987 Constitution explicitly reaffirms the abolition of royal and noble titles in the republic.
The Philippines was bound to the treaty on August 17, 2001. [13] The international patent application is available to citizens or residents of the participating states by accomplishing the application at their respective national patent office or at the WIPO International Bureau. Accomplishing the application "has the effect of automatically ...
The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines shortened as IPOPHL, is a government agency attached to the Department of Trade and Industry in charge of registration of intellectual property and conflict resolution of intellectual property rights in the Philippines.
The cases are part of a wave of patent lawsuits that have been filed over technology used in the COVID-19 shots, including one filed by Moderna against Pfizer last year. Alnylam to appeal ruling ...
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law set to ban social media platform TikTok in less than 48 hours. "There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive ...
Letters patent are a form of open or public proclamation [3] and a vestigial exercise of extra-parliamentary power by a monarch or president. [citation needed]They can thus be contrasted with the Act of Parliament, which is in effect a written order by Parliament involving assent by the monarch in conjunction with its members.