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.…

IP Market inaugurated at Iran & New York

Iran’s Intellectual Property Market was inaugurated on Sunday at the Tehran Over-The-Counter Stock Exchange, also known as Farabourse. The stated objective of the Intellectual Property Market is to promote the economy of resistance, which has been proposed by the Supreme Leader, according to the Mehr News Agency. As the first transaction at the Intellectual Property…

Oracle’s Legal Victory against Google Inc

Google’s Android operating system is the world’s best-selling Smartphone platform. Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that Google had improperly incorporated parts of Java into Android. Oracle is seeking roughly $1 billion on its copyright claims. Recently, U.S court decided that Oracle could copyright parts of Java Programming language, which Google used to design its…

World Intellectual Property Day Celebration

On the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, three Manipuri Textile Products Shaphee Lanphee, Wangkhei Phee and Moirang Phee have been given the Geological Indications (GI) tag. All the three application was filed by Department of Commerce & Industries, Manipur on 19th of December 2012 under the class 25. Shaphee Lanphee: Literally, the name of…

Designs Trends

The top ten designs for the Month of April Consisted Textile Fabric, Bottle etc, and the table below shows the top ten designs that received the maximum number of protection in the month of April, 2014. by Akshatha Karthik

Design Patent Grant Trends

The Indian Patent office granted 534 Design patents in April, 2014. The top three consisted of Biba Apparels Private Limited with 80, Renault Trucks with 29 Design & Ms Sumona Parekh with 18 patents. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the Month of April,…

National Intellectual Property Award 2014 to Bilcare

Government of India recently awarded Research, The National Intellectual Property 2014. The award is in recognizes and rewards the innovators of IP who have contributed to harnessing the country’s intellectual capital and creating an eco-system that boots creativity and innovation. Dr Praful R Naik, executive director, Bilcare while receiving the award, said “Bilcare continual investment…

Intellectual Property Rights to get Police Protection

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi speaking to FICCI’s ‘Roundtable on Copyright Enforcement Tool Kit’ assured that the department shall protect the Intellectual property rights (IPR) of the citizens in case of any violation. He also emphasized that copyrights are extremely important and must be respected and protected as they encourage innovation and creation. The…

Azerbaijan adopts new measures to protect intellectual property rights

Azerbaijan, officially known as the Republic of Azerbaijan is planning to adopt new methods to protect Intellectual Property Rights. Chairman of the Azerbaijan Copyright Agency Kamran Imanov said that “The products will be marked with Special Holograms. Along with the software, the hologram will be applied to the packaging of medicines, book covers, including religious…