India and the US have come up with a plan to set up a high-level working group on intellectual property to solve the contentious issues which have been hampering investments. The group will be constituted as part of the Trade Policy Forum (TPF). The US-India TPF is the principal trade dialogue body between the countries.…
The following EU schemes encourage diverse agricultural production, protect product names from misuse and imitation and help consumers by giving them information concerning the specific character of the products: Three EU schemes known as PDO (protected designation of origin): covers agricultural products and foodstuffs which are produced, processed and prepared in a given geographical area…
Patent Trends: The Indian patent office granted 295 Patents for the month of September, 2014. The Top three consisted of GM Global Technology Operations, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research with a count of 14, 8 and 6 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the…
The Much awaited iphone 6 is here. And Majority of them are debating over it for bends! And now the pendulum is swinging in the other direction! Recently, Ireland’s Longitude Licensing Ltd and Luxembourg’s Longitude Flash Memory Systems S.a.r.l. have filed a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit involves a whopping 13 counts of…
Spansion Inc, American-based company that designs, develops and manufactures flash memory microcontrollers, mixed-signal and analog products is in a licensing deal with Winbond Electronics Corporation, one of the biggest suppliers of semiconductor solutions worldwide. This gives both companies access to each other’s Flash memory patent portfolio. Ali Pourkeramati, senior vice president of strategic alliances at Spansion, stated…
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently launched a new database providing free access to a wealth of multilingual scientific and technical terminology, called PEARL. Through this, it promotes accurate and consistent use of terms across different languages, and makes it easier to search and share scientific and technical knowledge. The database initially includes terms…
Intel recently signed a deal to obtain over 1,400 patents and patent applications registered by Powerwave Technologies, a global telecommunications corporation; Among many of which relate to wireless telecommunications technology. Intel one of the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers comes with this acquisition as its ramps up its push for entirely wireless PCs, with the company…
FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerece and Industry) has set up an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) at Chandigarh for the benefit of units in Punjab and Chandigarh to encourage innovation and help protect intellectual property rights (IPR). With the support of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), the IPFC would facilitate the MSMEs…
The Indian patent office granted 609 Patents for the month of August, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc LG Electronics with a count of 28, 22 and 17 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the maximum number of patents for the month…
A device has been developed from a student of DAV International School, Panipat. Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old from Panipat has designed a device that helps people with developmental disabilities, like Locked-In Syndrome and ALS, communicate, using only their breath. The device, called ‘TALK’, and it uses signals from a person’s breath via Morse code,…
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