The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) suggested establishment of National Intellectual Property Rights Strategy Authority to Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). ASSOCHAM asked for it due to fast changing trade environment driven by global competition, innovation risks, short product cycle, and rapid changes in technology involving huge investments [...]
Barack Obama won the presidential election for 2012 and now, he will be in power for next five years. With this United Sates of America will be going forward with the two prospect related to Intellectual Property. First one will be the America’s Invent Act which was one of the upbringings of President Obama [...]
Dadaji Khobragade, who is a well known person in farmer’s fraternity due to HMT seeds and also his publicity of being considered one of the ‘Seven most powerful rural entrepreneurs’ is in news again. This time he is in news because one of the modifications of his famous HMT seeds has been registered under Protection [...]
In first victory in India, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database has been used to revoke a patent. Government of India revoked the patent granted to Avesthagen by Indian Patent Office (IPO) in April, 2012 on the grounds of being mischievous and prejudicial to the public. This patent was granted for “synergistic ayurvedic/ functional [...]
For those scientists who wants to stay close to science but don’t want to go into labs, patenting world offers a wide range of rewarding careers which are focused on: · Writing · Examining · Disputing patents In India, scientists can opt for these positions in an organization: · IP Researchers/ Patent Analysts · [...]
The United States District Court for the Central District of California gave a ruling on 15th October, 2012 that ownership of Einstein’s publicity rights have lapsed and cannot be enforced by Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) anymore. This ruling came in for a lawsuit that was filed by HUJ against General Motors LLC (GM) [...]
