Uber, intent on ensuring some measure of visibility for its drivers, has unveiled plans for a couple of illuminating innovations. It has patented a light to go on top of cars that can signal to customers when their ride is arriving. Plan well executed: Uber didn’t just think up this invention recently. The patent [...]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially published a series of 49 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. on 3rd Jan 2017. In this blog I’ve briefly covered up - universal iDevice dock, the force touch trackpad for MacBooks, the Mac Pro's security lock and more. And also mentioned this week's Apple’s traditional [...]
The first thing that comes to our mind for a four finger chocolate is kit-kat by Nestle. On 16-12-2016, a 10 year fight over the four finger shape of kit-kat bar ended badly for Nestle, as an EU court ruled that the trademark, which was awarded in 2006 was given in error. Its long [...]
Wise old saying -“There is always a second chance” was followed by www.secondshaadi.com. This domain name was launched by Vivek Pahwa and others (herein referred as ‘Defendants’) on January 25, 2006. It was cater to those seeking to marry again; hence the name, making the market position of the website completely different. On the [...]
So your daughter wants the new justin bieber CD, or perhaps you're looking to make a nice Christmas music compilation for playing over the holidays. These days it is as simple as downloading music via the internet so they can have them quickly and to avoid paying for them outright. This begs the question [...]
Frustrating news for the biotech industry, the European Patent Office (EPO) has decided to suspend all examination and opposition proceedings for patents concerning plants/animals that are obtained by means of essentially biological processes. This follows a recent non-binding Notice from the European Commission (EC) regarding the interpretation of certain aspects of Directive 98/44/EC (the [...]
