Ford to license its inflatable seat belts.

Ford, American multinational auto maker company is all set to license its inflatable seat belts. Ford combines two safety features like airbags and seat belts in its revolutionary inventions. According to the reports, this safety innovation will keep the rear passenger intact in an event of crash specially the children and the elders. The company…

Free Machine Translations for Korean Patents

The Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (“KIPRIS”) began providing a free Korean-to-English machine translation service of published and registered Korean patents and utility models. This free Korean-to-English machine translation service will make it much easier to access Korean patents, utility models and published applications in a more cost-efficient manner. The KIPRIS website, available in…

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How to avoid worthless patents and develop a strong patent portfolio? Have you ever tried googling “most patents are worthless”? You will find a lot of good information on why most patents are worthless and why you shouldn’t be spending a lot of money on patents, especially when you are a small company. Now, you…

Design Trends – May 2014

The top ten designs for the Month of May are Bottle, Handle & Decorative Article etc and the table below shows the top ten designs that received the maximum number of protection in the month of May, 2014.                           by Akshatha karthik

Patent Grant Trends- May 2014

The Indian patent office granted 646 Patents for the month of May, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, with a count of 35, 21 and 10 patents respectively. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number…

An invention which saved millions of lives

An invention was made to stop the spread of a deadly disease caused by reused syringe. The credit to this invention goes to Marc Andrew Koska. He is best known for inventing the non-reusable K1 auto-disable syringe, thus preventing the medical transmission of blood-borne diseases. In 1984 Koska read a newspaper article predicting the transmission of HIV through…

62 patents granted to Apple Inc.

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 62 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. earlier this month. Among which there were 6 design patents. Three patents related to Graphical user Interface. And one related to Display screen.  In total Apple Inc is granted 249 patents. USPTO granted in total 6962 patents on…

Multi-Year License Agreement

InterDigital, Inca wireless research and Development Company recently announced that the company’s patent licensing subsidiaries have entered into a patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  The royalty-bearing license agreement sets forth terms covering the sale by Samsung of 3G, 4G and certain future generation wireless products. “We are very happy to have resolved the…

Patent for potential drug to treat major depressive disorder

Recently, Suven Life Sciences Ltd has secured a product patent in the US corresponding to a new chemical entity for the treatment of disorders associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Patent no. USA (8653071)corresponding to the New Chemical Entity (NCE) for the treatment of disorders associated with Neurodegenerative diseases and this Patent is valid through 2030. Hyderabad based…

The largest torrent search engine Torrentz.eu is taken down

UK anti-piracy police recently took down the largest torrent search engine to curb illegal file sharing. The site’s domain was suspended by the registrar of its domain after a request from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. A similar site, FileCrop, has also been taken down. Many competitors have also been taken offline recently.…