ZTE Corporation, world’s leading technology innovators welcomed the decision by the High Court of Delhi last week in favor of the company in a patent litigation with Vringo Inc. and its subsidiary. The court lifted a temporary injunction against certain ZTE products, including base station controllers based on GSM technology, in the ruling concerning India…
U.S. Patent No. 8,799,458, entitled “Identifying and marketing to a user device involved in an online transaction,” was issued to the online fraud and risk management leader Kount Recently. This is the third patent granted to Kount in 2014, with additional patents expected before the close of the year. Kount is a leading innovator of solutions…
The Registrar of Geographical Indications at Intellectual Property Office at Chennai has granted the status of proprietor of the Geographical Indications(GI) for the world famous Warli paintings from Maharashtra. “Javya Soma Mhase is the first artiste from Warli Tribal who has been appreciated by Government by conferring upon him Padma Shri in 2011 in recognition…
Recently, Bombay High Court supported the Granted compulsory license to Indian pharma company Natco for the sale of a generic version of Bayer’s anti-cancer drug Nexavar. With this decision, Natco will now be legally able to manufacture and sell the generic copy of sorafenib tosylate, a patented kidney cancer drug invented by German Pharma giant…
A broad patent cross-licensing agreement between Cannon and Microsoft will allow either company to use patents filed by the other. Both companies were ranked in the top five companies in their industry according to IEEE Spectrum’s Patent Power 2013 ranking, and Microsoft was No. 1 in computer software.Canon is a world leader in imaging technology,…
K Rosaiah, Governor launched a book on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) by noted IPR expert Swapna Sundar, at an event recently. The book works on a comprehensive and practical discussion of the role of IP in the techno-commercial space and draws from the rich experience of companies like Hyundai and Google to elucidate strategies that…
Section 3(d) of Indian Patent Act says- “the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known…
Patent Freedom acquired by RPX Corporation PatentFreedom, the first provider of data, intelligence, and consulting on non-practicing entities (NPEs) is acquired by RPX Corporation the leading provider of patent risk management. According to the sources, current subscribers to PatentFreedom will continue to have full access to its database of NPE litigations and profiles. However, RPX…
The top ten designs for the Month of June 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 June, 2014.
The Indian Patent office granted 626 Design patents in June, 2014. The top two consisted of Ma Design India Private Limited with 24, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V with 22 Design. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the Month of June, 2014.
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