Arjuna Natural Extracts Ltd, an Indian company has been awarded a patent for a composition for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by the USPTO. The patented turmeric extract formulation BCM-95, includes curcuminoid mixture and added essential oil of turmeric. The patent also covers method of making the composition. The turmeric extract formulation has already undergone…
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and its Karnataka equivalent are in a trademark row over the mark “KSRTC”, as both are identified with the same acronym. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has requested Kerala to refrain from using the name KSRTC after obtaining a trademark on the name from the Trade Marks…
AbbVie, a research-based bio pharmaceutical company from the US has signed a Licensing Agreement for HIV Paediatric Formulations of Lopinavir (LPV) and Ritonavir (r) with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on World AIDS Day. The license agreement will enable others to re-formulate and manufacture specially designed LPV/r and r paediatric treatments for distribution in the developing world…
A police taskforce in Stockholm has raided the headquarters of the Pirate Bay, seizing equipment and computers resulting in a site outage recently. The Pirate Bay went down recently and remained so at the time of publication, with Swedish police confirming to Torrent Freak that was responsible for the raid. Paul Pintér, Sweden’s national coordinator…
Google recently announced that it will close its Google News service in Spain as a result of a new Spanish law, saying the Internet had created “tremendous opportunities but also real challenges for publishers as competition both for readers’ attention and for advertising Euros increased”. “This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google…
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India recently launched DOCETAXEL Injection USP 20 mg/ml and 80 mg/ 4ml a generic version of TAXOTERE in the US market. The market value of the drug is worth $218 billion in the US Market. Taxotere (docetaxel) is a cancer medication that interferes with…
The Indian patent office granted 331 Patents for the month of November, 2014. The Top two consisted of GM Global Technology Operations, Qualcomm Incorporated, with a count of 14 and 13 patents respectively. The image shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of patents for the month of November, 2014. …
Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson has invited project proposals in these areas from IIT students across Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee and Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi. They have announced this programme to help IIT engineers develop technology patents and said that intellectual property rights will be owned by the developer team or…
To end the awkward and unwieldy umbrellas, designers in China have teamed up with university students to invent a better kind of umbrella – a device that creates a force-field of air around you to shield you from the rain. Over the past two years, this team of designers in China has been working with…
The patent application which was opposed by Pharma firms including Ranbaxy Labs and Natco Pharma has now been granted to Pfizer. The opposition was filed by four parties, including Ranaxy Labs Ltd, Natco Pharma Ltd, GM Pharma Ltd, and an individual named Reena Manoharan. This anti-fungal drug Voriconazole, is sold in US under the brand…
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