Impact of Pre-Issuance changes in America Invents Act – by Arun K Narasani
Impact of pre-issuance_changes_AIA_Arun_Narasani By Arun K Narasani
Shakira’s “Loca” song in Copyright Infringement
The song LOCA, by the legendary Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira contained segments that were clearly copied from a track called “Loca con su Tiguere” by Ramon Arias Vazquez which was released in the late 1990’s. The Spanish version was released on 10 September 2010 and the English version on 13th September 2010. The sources say that…
Open Source Wonders
Where there are companies which struggles to monopolize the market with their inventions and their IP assets, there is Arvind Sanjeev from Kochi who did something out of the box. This 23 year old Sanjeev designed a replica of Google Glass in less than a month for just Rs. 4500, Credits to Arduino an open-source electronics…
APEDA’s verdict on Basmati Rice
The Minister of State for Commerce and Industries made it clear in the Parliament last week that The Agriculture and Processes Food Export Development Authority (APEDA) will not include the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar as traditional basmati growing area in its GI Application. Whereas, The APEDA had approached the IP Board against…
Design Protection Trends
The Indian Patent office granted 456 Design patents in July, 2014. The top two consisted of FLOS S.P.A (Italy) with 12, NEOPERL GMBH (Germany) with 11 Design. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the Month of July, 2014. Among which 50% of applications were…
Patent Grant trends for the month of July
The Indian patent office granted 480 Patents for the month of July, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc Samsung R& D Institute India Bangalore Private Limited with a count of 11, 10 and 8 patents respectively. The table below shows the top five Companies that received the maximum…
Patent Litigation
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…
Patent for Identifying a Device during Online Transaction.
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…
GI to Warlis Paintings
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…
Bombay HC in favor of Natco’s Compulsory License
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…
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