Singapore’s Intellectual Property Office (IPOS) announced recently that the first Singapore patent was granted protection and recognized in Cambodia in March. This patent also marked Cambodia’s first-ever granted patent. Less than two months after IPOS and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the first Singapore patent was formally…
The Korean Intellectual Property Office in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA) is offering the Advanced International Certificate Course on IP Asset Management for business success based on IP PANORAMATM Multimedia toolkit in English. According to the…
Japan is to expand its trademark protection to cover an additional five categories of non-traditional trademarks from April 1st 2015, namely, Motion Mark Hologram Mark Color Per Se Mark Sound Mark, and Position Mark. Applications for registration of these new types of trademarks will be accepted by the Japan Patent Office from 12:00 (midnight) of…
To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) the European Patent Office (EPO) highlighted the work of outstanding female inventors over the past decade. Sources say that each year, women involve about one in nine proposals for the European Inventor Award. The First woman to win the Award was, the Italian Inventor and entrepreneur Catia Bastoli…
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women worldwide. Yearly, about 450,000 women die from the consequences of breast cancer, Worldwide. Now, Indian scientist develops prototype of a radiation-free breast cancer detection machine. Prof. Srirang Manohar, an Associate Professor, in the Faculty of Science and Technology’s Biomedical Photonic Imaging Group (BMPI) at…
The renowned physicist, Professor and inspiration for Oscar- winning film The Theory of Everything, Stephen Hawking has applied to trademark his name. Hawking applied for the trademark at the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering goods and services which includes; computer games, powered wheelchairs, greetings cards, and charitable purposes. His life inspired the creation of…
Over the last few years, there has been number of procedural changes at the European Patent Office (EPO) like, Clarification of the scope of protection prior to search (Rule 62a EPC and Rule 63 EPC), Mandatory responses to the international written opinion prepared by the EPO (Rule 161 EPC) and The European search opinion (Rule…
In a country where Filing & Maintaining of Patents meant to be an expensive task, is now in the limelight, with government initiative that provides financial assistance to file international patents since the Centre has significantly eased the qualifying norms. A larger number of technology start-ups and small and medium enterprises could now benefit from this initiative. Earlier,…
Walt Disney and the Disney Group of companies earlier had entitled to own the IP rights of all the Disney characters. Individual who wish to use the Disney characters should take care to make legal use of them to avoid infringing Disney’s Intellectual Property rights. Disney protects its Characters with Trademark and Copyright Registrations. Now,…
The Department of Wood Science of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has taken the initiative for securing Forest Certification and registration of Geographical Indication for Marayoor sandal. Forest Certification is a mechanism for monitoring, tracing, and labelling timber, wood, and pulp products and non-timber forest products whereby the quality of management from environmental, social, and economic…
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