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PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER THE INDIAN & INTERNATIONAL LAWS

Intellectual Property (IP) has been traditionally categorized into Industrial property and Copyright. The term Industrial Property includes patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source. Copyright protection is granted to protect literary, artistic and musical works. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:47:46+05:30March 29th, 2017|IP Basics|0 Comments
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Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. The impact of modularity on intellectual property protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents, the principal has three options to address this threat: doing nothing, licensing the focal IP ex ante, and Paying agents to prevent their defection. [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:50:05+05:30March 29th, 2017|IP Basics|0 Comments
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Waymo: The Google driving car

Waymo is an autonomous car development company spun out of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., in December 2016. It then took over the self-driving car project which Google had begun in 2009. Alphabet describes Waymo as “a self-driving tech company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.” The new company, [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:50:35+05:30March 29th, 2017|Patent|0 Comments
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US Pharma sector demands keeping India in patent violator list

America’s pharma sector has asked US trade representative to continue to keep India on its priority watch list (PWL) which includes countries that are alleged violators of US patent laws, claiming that the environment on the grounds remains “challenging” in India. Among the key issues of concerns for the US pharma sector in India [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:51:05+05:30March 28th, 2017|IP Basics|0 Comments
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UK Professor Charts Path to Reconciling IP Rights, Farmers’ Rights

The Graduate Institute Centre for International Environmental Studies in Geneva invited Graham Dutfield, professor of international governance at the University of Leeds, for a public lecture on 20 March on intellectual property, food security, and rural development. He talked about innovation in agriculture, the rationale of IP rights, and measures that could be taken to reconcile IP rights [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:51:30+05:30March 28th, 2017|IP Basics|0 Comments
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Gilead Sciences’ hepatitis drug patent faces legal challenge

International group representing doctors and patient have launched a fresh challenge to the patent on Gilead Sciences’ hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir at the European patent office in order to increase access to treatment.  Sofosbuvir is sold by the US drugmaker as Sovaldi and is included in other hepatitis C medicine such as Harvoni and [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:51:55+05:30March 28th, 2017|Patent|0 Comments
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