The latest World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report showed that SINGAPORE has retained its ranking as top in Asia and second in the world for intellectual property (IP) protection for the fourth time. Greater quality assurance of patents granted in Singapore is also a positive contributor to a thriving economy. Through the building of…
The Indian Patent office granted 554 Design patents in the month of August, 2014. The details are tabulated below.
Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain announced recently that the publication of Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. This book, the first in a series of Duke Open Coursebooks. It is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. This book is an introduction to intellectual…
A new e-filing payment option has been initiated by The Commerce and Industry Ministry, which will further simplify the procedure to get the patents and Trademarks. This facility enables payment using Internet banking, credit cards or debit cards of more than 70 banks as against Internet banking of 2 banks earlier. “Through the launch of new payment…
Smart phone, Smart TV, Smart Camera, Smart Contact Lenses and now it’s time for Smart Shoes!! You recently did hear about smart contact lenses, now it’s time for the smart shoes. Yes you heard it right! Indian startup Ducere Technologies has designed a shoes, sync up with a Smartphone app that uses Google maps and vibrate to…
Impact of pre-issuance_changes_AIA_Arun_Narasani By Arun K Narasani
The song LOCA, by the legendary Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira contained segments that were clearly copied from a track called “Loca con su Tiguere” by Ramon Arias Vazquez which was released in the late 1990’s. The Spanish version was released on 10 September 2010 and the English version on 13th September 2010. The sources say that…
Where there are companies which struggles to monopolize the market with their inventions and their IP assets, there is Arvind Sanjeev from Kochi who did something out of the box. This 23 year old Sanjeev designed a replica of Google Glass in less than a month for just Rs. 4500, Credits to Arduino an open-source electronics…
The Minister of State for Commerce and Industries made it clear in the Parliament last week that The Agriculture and Processes Food Export Development Authority (APEDA) will not include the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar as traditional basmati growing area in its GI Application. Whereas, The APEDA had approached the IP Board against…
The Indian Patent office granted 456 Design patents in July, 2014. The top two consisted of FLOS S.P.A (Italy) with 12, NEOPERL GMBH (Germany) with 11 Design. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the Month of July, 2014. Among which 50% of applications were…
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