In 1974, a Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik created a solid cube with colored stickers that twisted and turned without falling apart; which is now eminently known as Rubik’s cube. Rubik’s cube is a multicolored puzzle that has kept all hands busy since its creation. It is said that there are “43 quintillion” ways to align…
Indian Patent Office recently notified the international bureau that it is prepared to receive and process international applications in electronic form coming into effect from 15 November 2014. International applications filed to the Indian Patent Office (IPO) as Receiving Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) may be filed electronically using ePCT. Applications filed via ePCT-Filing…
Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED), has taken an effort to protect Intellectual Property rights through a launch of a new quarterly Index. This index will monitor the level of intellectual property rights protection in the emirate by gauging satisfaction levels among the business community for the existing laws. The level of intellectual property protection…
A Robotic Sandal, Mouseless; (An invisible computer mouse), washing-cum-exercise machine you name it and they have it! Children’s are the soul of this world. On this occasion of children’s day we shall take a look at few such brilliant, young minds from India, whose inventions changed the world. Tenith Adithyaa I do not want to live with…
Following Haldi (Turmeric) and Basmati, the latest instance of violation of Intellectual Property Rights, which is essentially traditional knowledge, is the famous KHADI. The government’s efforts to promote ‘khadi’ are facing a trademark snag with the brand having been registered abroad, in countries such as Germany, as well as in India. ‘Khadi’ being registered in…
Eight years after it received a proposal from Karnataka government, the Centre recently cleared renaming 12 cities and towns of the state including Belgaum as Belagavi and Bangalore as Bengaluru. Besides Bangalore and Belgaum, the other cities and towns which will be known by new names(which are in brackets) are Mangalore(Mangaluru), Bellary(Ballari), Bijapur(Vijapura), Chikmagalur(Chikkamagaluru), Gulbarga(Kalaburagi),…
Top intellectual property licensing company, WiLAN (WIN) recently announced that the company has entered into a succeeding patent assignment agreement (“Agreement”) with Panasonic Corporation (“Panasonic”). Resources say that under the Agreement, Panasonic will assign, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of WiLAN, all rights and title to certain patents related to vending machine systems. However, all terms…
Tunisia is the latest country to makes its trade mark data available on the TMview search tool. Meanwhile, the Icelandic Patent Office and the IP Office of Montenegro have also joined TMclass, the goods and services classification tool, bringing two new languages to the system. The National Institute for Standardization and Industrial Property of Tunisia…
Delhi University’s Intellectual Property Rights Cell was established in 2008 with the motto of helping researchers, inventors and creators manage their intellectual property rights through the legal machinery and also to manage its commercial aspects like, Patentability, legal issues involve and IP Valuation. The new policy on Registration of Patents is expected to deliberate upon…
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…
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