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…
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…
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…
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