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. …
In 1974, a Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik created a solid cube with colored stickers that twisted and turned without falling apart; which is now eminently known as Rubik’s cube. Rubik’s cube is a multicolored puzzle that has kept all hands busy since its creation. It is said that there are “43 quintillion” ways to align…
Indian Patent Office recently notified the international bureau that it is prepared to receive and process international applications in electronic form coming into effect from 15 November 2014. International applications filed to the Indian Patent Office (IPO) as Receiving Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) may be filed electronically using ePCT. Applications filed via ePCT-Filing…
Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED), has taken an effort to protect Intellectual Property rights through a launch of a new quarterly Index. This index will monitor the level of intellectual property rights protection in the emirate by gauging satisfaction levels among the business community for the existing laws. The level of intellectual property protection…
A Robotic Sandal, Mouseless; (An invisible computer mouse), washing-cum-exercise machine you name it and they have it! Children’s are the soul of this world. On this occasion of children’s day we shall take a look at few such brilliant, young minds from India, whose inventions changed the world. Tenith Adithyaa I do not want to live with…
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…
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