The Indian Patent office granted 626 Design patents in May, 2014. The top three consisted of Ma Design India Private Limited with 24, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V with 22 Design & Hero Motocorp Limited with 20 patents. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of Design protection in the…
The Indian patent office granted 646 Patents for the month of May, 2014. The Top three consisted of Qualcomm Incorporated, GM Global Technology Operations, Inc and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, with a count of 35, 21 and 10 patents respectively. The table below shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number…
An invention was made to stop the spread of a deadly disease caused by reused syringe. The credit to this invention goes to Marc Andrew Koska. He is best known for inventing the non-reusable K1 auto-disable syringe, thus preventing the medical transmission of blood-borne diseases. In 1984 Koska read a newspaper article predicting the transmission of HIV through…
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 62 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. earlier this month. Among which there were 6 design patents. Three patents related to Graphical user Interface. And one related to Display screen. In total Apple Inc is granted 249 patents. USPTO granted in total 6962 patents on…
InterDigital, Inca wireless research and Development Company recently announced that the company’s patent licensing subsidiaries have entered into a patent license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The royalty-bearing license agreement sets forth terms covering the sale by Samsung of 3G, 4G and certain future generation wireless products. “We are very happy to have resolved the…
Recently, Suven Life Sciences Ltd has secured a product patent in the US corresponding to a new chemical entity for the treatment of disorders associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Patent no. USA (8653071)corresponding to the New Chemical Entity (NCE) for the treatment of disorders associated with Neurodegenerative diseases and this Patent is valid through 2030. Hyderabad based…
UK anti-piracy police recently took down the largest torrent search engine to curb illegal file sharing. The site’s domain was suspended by the registrar of its domain after a request from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. A similar site, FileCrop, has also been taken down. Many competitors have also been taken offline recently.…
Iran’s Intellectual Property Market was inaugurated on Sunday at the Tehran Over-The-Counter Stock Exchange, also known as Farabourse. The stated objective of the Intellectual Property Market is to promote the economy of resistance, which has been proposed by the Supreme Leader, according to the Mehr News Agency. As the first transaction at the Intellectual Property…
Google’s Android operating system is the world’s best-selling Smartphone platform. Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that Google had improperly incorporated parts of Java into Android. Oracle is seeking roughly $1 billion on its copyright claims. Recently, U.S court decided that Oracle could copyright parts of Java Programming language, which Google used to design its…
The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most commonly used open source license. The GPL ensures that the software is free for all its users and it allows further distribution and modification of the software. The GPL was first drafted by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The preamble of…
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