Disney opens up its IP for Developers.

Walt Disney and the Disney Group of companies earlier had entitled to own the IP rights of all the Disney characters. Individual who wish to use the Disney characters should take care to make legal use of them to avoid infringing Disney’s Intellectual Property rights. Disney protects its Characters with Trademark and Copyright Registrations. Now,…

DU to set up Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre

The University of Delhi (DU) recently announced that it is coming up with a new intellectual property rights (IPR) policy under which it will create an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) at the Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC). The university is taking this step to ensure that awareness is…

Dubai to Monitor Intellectual Property Protection

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…

Trademark War over Khadi

Following Haldi (Turmeric) and Basmati, the latest instance of violation of Intellectual Property Rights, which is essentially traditional knowledge, is the famous KHADI. The government’s efforts to promote ‘khadi’ are facing a trademark snag with the brand having been registered abroad, in countries such as Germany, as well as in India. ‘Khadi’ being registered in…

A New Policy on Registration of Patents- DU

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…