Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre in Punjab

FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerece and Industry) has set up an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) at Chandigarh for the benefit of units in Punjab and Chandigarh to encourage innovation and help protect intellectual property rights (IPR). With the support of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), the IPFC would facilitate the MSMEs…

Patent Grant trends for the Month of August

The Indian patent office granted 609 Patents for the month of August, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc LG Electronics with a count of 28, 22 and 17 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the maximum number of patents for the month…

A Device to turn your Breath into Words

A device has been developed from a student of DAV International School, Panipat. Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old from Panipat has designed a device that helps people with developmental disabilities, like Locked-In Syndrome and ALS, communicate, using only their breath. The device, called ‘TALK’, and it uses signals from a person’s breath via Morse code,…

WEF Global Competitiveness Report

The latest World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report showed that SINGAPORE has retained its ranking as top in Asia and second in the world for intellectual property (IP) protection for the fourth time. Greater quality assurance of patents granted in Singapore is also a positive contributor to a thriving economy. Through the building of…

Free to download Intellectual Property Casebook.

Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain announced recently that the publication of Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. This book, the first in a series of Duke Open Coursebooks. It is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. This book is an introduction to intellectual…