A long dispute of four years came to an end when the High Court of Birmingham (UK) gave a ruling in favor of Cadbury. The dispute was over the color trademark of Cadbury viz. Purple (Pantone 2685C). In the present dispute Nestle SA, challenged a trademark ruling stating that a color cannot be protected [...]
Patents, an exclusive right granted to the inventor by the government of the country for exploitation of his invention by use, sell or licensing the patent. With patents, inventor tries to cover up and gain from the research inventor has already carried out. Patents are used by an inventor to protect his invention; invention [...]
India is going to add two new products into Geographical Indications (GI). GI is used to denote the name or sign, of the products which are from a particular geographical area or somewhat related to the origin like town, region or nation. Thus Geographical Indication gives the rights to its holder, and acts as [...]
In a recent news there was a lawsuit where Whirlpool of India, a unit of home appliances maker Whirlpool Corp., had sued Videocon for design infringement. Whirlpool of India in June sued Videocon in the high court after it discovered that latter had introduced washing machines with a similar design. Whirlpool of India was [...]
On 18 th September 2012, Microsoft Corp. announced that they have signed a patent licensing agreement with Reliance In Motion (RIM) that gives RIM access to the latest Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) for certain BlackBerry® devices. The need for a common file system for data sharing across multiple platforms and products have increased [...]
Year 2012, has been a stupendous year for Indian generic companies. After the grant of first compulsory license to Natco Pharmaceuticals on 5th March, 2012, Cipla won the case against Swiss drug maker F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in the Delhi high court on 7th September, 2012. A single judge bench of Delhi high court [...]
