The Indian patent office granted 480 Patents for the month of July, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc Samsung R& D Institute India Bangalore Private Limited with a count of 11, 10 and 8 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the maximum…
ZTE Corporation, world’s leading technology innovators welcomed the decision by the High Court of Delhi last week in favor of the company in a patent litigation with Vringo Inc. and its subsidiary. The court lifted a temporary injunction against certain ZTE products, including base station controllers based on GSM technology, in the ruling concerning India…
U.S. Patent No. 8,799,458, entitled “Identifying and marketing to a user device involved in an online transaction,” was issued to the online fraud and risk management leader Kount Recently. This is the third patent granted to Kount in 2014, with additional patents expected before the close of the year. Kount is a leading innovator of solutions…
The Registrar of Geographical Indications at Intellectual Property Office at Chennai has granted the status of proprietor of the Geographical Indications(GI) for the world famous Warli paintings from Maharashtra. “Javya Soma Mhase is the first artiste from Warli Tribal who has been appreciated by Government by conferring upon him Padma Shri in 2011 in recognition…
Recently, Bombay High Court supported the Granted compulsory license to Indian pharma company Natco for the sale of a generic version of Bayer’s anti-cancer drug Nexavar. With this decision, Natco will now be legally able to manufacture and sell the generic copy of sorafenib tosylate, a patented kidney cancer drug invented by German Pharma giant…
FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerece and Industry) has set up an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) in Guwahati 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 to identify, protect, maintain, enforce and commercialize…
Khadi is a hand-spun and hand-woven cloth from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan primarily made out of cotton. It is also known as the Fabric of the freedom struggle and a political weapon in Mahatma Gandhi’s Swadeshi movement. Khadi is likely to get statutory protection as a Geographical Indication-tagged product unique to the Indian subcontinent. The application sought GI protection both for the…
The Official Journal of the Patent Office publishes applications after 18 months and early publication on request; as required under section 11A of the patent Act, 1970. The journal is being published contains all the activities of The Patent Office such as publication of all the patent applications after 18th months, and early publications with…
Over 230 patents and 546 patent assets of Xerox Corporation Limited are on sale for this September 11th- 16th. ICAP Patent Brokerage has been hired to handle the auction. The estimation value ranges from $1 to $10 million. Xerox Corporation Ltd was founded in 1906 as The Haloid Photographic Company which originally manufactured photographic paper…
IPOS recently announced an IP Financing Scheme to endorse innovation among local companies. The motto of the scheme is to develop Singapore as a hub of IP transactions and management. It is anticipated that the initiative taken will encourage more financial institutions to recognize IP as an asset. According to the reports, earlier the IP…
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