With the purpose of creating IP awareness among kids, the office of Controller General of Patent, Design and Trademark (CGPDTM) launches “KIDS Nook”. This would be the first comics for kids about IP. It consists of various stories giving knowledge about Patents, Designs, Trademarks and introduction to creativity and innovations. You can visit the Nook…
IPO expands the paperless environment by introducing Electronic filing system for the new applications for registration of Geographical Indication (GI). In order to expand the paperless environment and add ease of access on all the offices under the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, Electronic Filing system has also been extended for the filing…
The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the latest winners of the Patents for Humanity program. The Patents for Humanity program was launched by the USPTO in February 2012 as part of an Obama administration initiative promoting game-changing innovations to solve long-standing development challenges. The 2015 Patents for Humanity award ceremony recognizes seven recipients in…
Singapore’s Intellectual Property Office (IPOS) announced recently that the first Singapore patent was granted protection and recognized in Cambodia in March. This patent also marked Cambodia’s first-ever granted patent. Less than two months after IPOS and Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the first Singapore patent was formally…
The Korean Intellectual Property Office in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA) is offering the Advanced International Certificate Course on IP Asset Management for business success based on IP PANORAMATM Multimedia toolkit in English. According to the…
Japan is to expand its trademark protection to cover an additional five categories of non-traditional trademarks from April 1st 2015, namely, Motion Mark Hologram Mark Color Per Se Mark Sound Mark, and Position Mark. Applications for registration of these new types of trademarks will be accepted by the Japan Patent Office from 12:00 (midnight) of…
To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) the European Patent Office (EPO) highlighted the work of outstanding female inventors over the past decade. Sources say that each year, women involve about one in nine proposals for the European Inventor Award. The First woman to win the Award was, the Italian Inventor and entrepreneur Catia Bastoli…
In a country where Filing & Maintaining of Patents meant to be an expensive task, is now in the limelight, with government initiative that provides financial assistance to file international patents since the Centre has significantly eased the qualifying norms. A larger number of technology start-ups and small and medium enterprises could now benefit from this initiative. Earlier,…
Walt Disney and the Disney Group of companies earlier had entitled to own the IP rights of all the Disney characters. Individual who wish to use the Disney characters should take care to make legal use of them to avoid infringing Disney’s Intellectual Property rights. Disney protects its Characters with Trademark and Copyright Registrations. Now,…
The Department of Wood Science of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has taken the initiative for securing Forest Certification and registration of Geographical Indication for Marayoor sandal. Forest Certification is a mechanism for monitoring, tracing, and labelling timber, wood, and pulp products and non-timber forest products whereby the quality of management from environmental, social, and economic…
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