Tunisia is the latest country to makes its trade mark data available on the TMview search tool. Meanwhile, the Icelandic Patent Office and the IP Office of Montenegro have also joined TMclass, the goods and services classification tool, bringing two new languages to the system. The National Institute for Standardization and Industrial Property of Tunisia…
Tamil Nadu-based iVoice Enterprises has filed a modification petition with the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), challenging the famous iPhone trademark, belonging to the US-based Apple Inc. A company statement said, that the company which is engaged in Intellectual Property Rights and mobile applications with primary emphasis in the domestic market, seeks to remove “iPhone”…
Delhi University’s Intellectual Property Rights Cell was established in 2008 with the motto of helping researchers, inventors and creators manage their intellectual property rights through the legal machinery and also to manage its commercial aspects like, Patentability, legal issues involve and IP Valuation. The new policy on Registration of Patents is expected to deliberate upon…
Recently, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has approached the IP Board against the GI Registry, requesting them to amend the GI Registration of Basmati Rice. Now it seems Pakistan has approached the IP Board. Lahore-based Basmati Growers’ Association (BGA) has moved the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in appeal…
Under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the recent 54th WIPO Assemblies appointed, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA). The appointment is to become effective from early 2015. IPOS, working together with the Singapore Permanent Mission in Geneva, was successful in its bid…
India and the US have come up with a plan to set up a high-level working group on intellectual property to solve the contentious issues which have been hampering investments. The group will be constituted as part of the Trade Policy Forum (TPF). The US-India TPF is the principal trade dialogue body between the countries.…
The following EU schemes encourage diverse agricultural production, protect product names from misuse and imitation and help consumers by giving them information concerning the specific character of the products: Three EU schemes known as PDO (protected designation of origin): covers agricultural products and foodstuffs which are produced, processed and prepared in a given geographical area…
Patent Trends: The Indian patent office granted 295 Patents for the month of September, 2014. The Top three consisted of GM Global Technology Operations, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research with a count of 14, 8 and 6 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the…
The Much awaited iphone 6 is here. And Majority of them are debating over it for bends! And now the pendulum is swinging in the other direction! Recently, Ireland’s Longitude Licensing Ltd and Luxembourg’s Longitude Flash Memory Systems S.a.r.l. have filed a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit involves a whopping 13 counts of…
Spansion Inc, American-based company that designs, develops and manufactures flash memory microcontrollers, mixed-signal and analog products is in a licensing deal with Winbond Electronics Corporation, one of the biggest suppliers of semiconductor solutions worldwide. This gives both companies access to each other’s Flash memory patent portfolio. Ali Pourkeramati, senior vice president of strategic alliances at Spansion, stated…
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