Rin v. Tide: P&G Goes to Court: Rin's latest advertisement, placing itself to be a better bet than Tide is anything but squeaky clean (pun intended). Having done so, the ugly head of commercial disparagement has been reared again. According to latest news reports, P&G which owns “Tide” has knocked the doors of the [...]
P. H. Kurain , controller general of patents, trademarks and designs at India's Intellectual Property ( IP ) Office has resigned from the post with more than half of the term remianing. He was the first IAS officer to handle the post at patent office. Since his posting in 2009 , he has introduced [...]
Myth #1: Patent agent exam is for lawyers and completely law based According to the Government of India, minimum qualification to appear in the patent agent exam is – “Any Science Graduation”. There is no mention of any Law graduation or legal knowledge. This clearly indicates that patent agent is supposed to be a [...]
IIPTA's Free IPR Certification course Intellectual property 101 March sessions final exam starts today (28th May 2011). The enrolled candidates can login using their IIPTA login id and visit the course page. The exam is in the form of an online quiz and is available under the QUIZ tab on the course home page. [...]
According to Report of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, they contribute the 8 % of country’s GDP, 45% of the manufactured output and 40% of its export. MSME generally do not have millions of budget to be spend on research and development but what is popularly called in [...]
IIPTA launches a set of 7 books – a must have for Patent Agent Examination Preparation. The books contains the following titles: 1) Bare Act – Patent Act 1970 – Revised with all the latest amendments. We felt that the latest amendments were not updated in the Bare Act available in the market and [...]
