Design Protection Trends

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…

Patent Grant trends for the month of July

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…

Patent Litigation

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…

GI to Warlis Paintings

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…

Bombay HC in favor of Natco’s Compulsory License

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…