A nine year old Emirati, Adeeb Al Balushi is honored for his multiple inventions by Dubai Municipality (DM), Hussain Lootah ahead of World Intellectual Property Day. This Child genius has invented a car seatbelt heart monitor, cleaning robot and light-weight prosthetic limbs. He has also invented a fireproof helmet with a camera system to help…
On March 25th, Mark Zuckerberg- chief executive of Facebook announced that they have agreed to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology. He stated “Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the…
GUI is a Program Interface that takes advantage of the computer’s graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use. The design of graphical user interfaces (GUI) is an essential part of Smart phones, tablets and PC Software, it can make the difference and strongly contribute to gain market share. Therefore, graphical interfaces have become…
Live Webinar: Patentability requirements for Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) ipMetrix Consulting Group invites you to join a live webinar on patenting computer related inventions in India. You may register for the event by visiting the Eventbrite event page. The webinar details are as follows: Date/Time: Friday, April 25, 2014 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM (PDT)…
The Indian Patent office granted 438 Design patents in March, 2014. The top three consisted of Biba Apparels Private Limited with 30, Ma design India Pvt Ltd with 21 Design & Liberty Shoes Limited with 18 patents. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the…
The Indian patent office granted 677 Patents for the month of March, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated,GM Global Technology Operations Inc and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, with a count of 42, 18 and 18 patents respectively. The table below shows the top ten…
The License agreement between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and ViiV Healthcare over a drug Dolutegravir (DTG) has brought new hope in the field of medicine. This New Drug Application (NDA) follows the approval of dolutegravir by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2013 under the brand name…
The most famous drug for diabetes, Galvus also known as Vildagliptin is under patent litigation. Swiss drug maker Novartis has filed an infringement proceeding against Biocon, the Bangalore-based Company and Asia’s largest insulin maker on Galvus or Vildagliptin, a DPP4 inhibitor class of drugs used to treat type-2 diabetes. Novartis filed the case on 27…
The European Patent Office (EPO), revealed the statistics for the global company that has filed patents in Europe. EPO says that Philips filed the third largest number of patent applications in 2013 with 59% increase compare to last year. The company has 64,000 patent rights, 93,000 design rights, 46,000 trademarks and 4,700 domain names. Other…
Marvell Technology Group Limited, the leading producer of Storage, communication products is entangled in a major patent Litigation case against a private Research University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The federal court ordered Marvell to pay $1.5 Billion as enhanced penalties for deliberately infringing Carnegie’s Intellectual Property, the third largest ever in a patent case at…
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