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Expiring Patents: New Business opportunity
Time is running out on the U.S. patents for many of the most popular brand-name drugs. Over the next several years generic versions of many well-known best-selling drugs will become available then. Patents for [...]
BEAUTIFUL & THE UGLY
Brand licensing is just like sex. Good cross licensing can turn the product look more beautiful. Ugly sex, on the other hand, leaves both sides mystified as to why it happened with neither party [...]
ALL I NEED IS MONEY
A successful utilization and commercialization of inventions is akin to playing the lottery – while the reward from a successful patented invention can be vast, the chance of obtaining a truly successful patent is [...]
Building Brands with Intangible
Design, trademark and patent are intellectual properties that influence each other and become the core assets and ultimate commercial weapons of the companies. Brand extensions may be the most visible means of exploiting intangibles. [...]
Fighting Fakes An Unsolved Battle
Trade in counterfeit goods causes significant financial losses to the right holders. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the newly proposed agreement for establishing new international framework for enforcement of intellectual property rights. The [...]
National news
Public interest litigation filed against the grant of GI to Tirupati Laddu has been held not maintainable. Madras High Court has dismissed Public interest litigation filed against a petition challenging the patent rights of [...]