The European coat of justice has ruled that google is not liable for trademark infringement by allowing companies to use rivals trademark as advertising key words through its Ad words programme. The court ruled that although google provides a plateform for the adverts, it is responsibility of individual advertiser to ensures that thy do [...]
Discussion Paper is released on Review of Organisational Structure of the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trade marks and Geographical Indications. Comments can be send on sk.lal@nic.in, chandni.raina@nic.in and dv.prasad@nic.in. Please find the attached copy or click here. Aim of the paper is to bring public opinion and discussion on organizational [...]
Most people are aware of intellectual property (IP)-of copyright, patents, industrial designs and trademarks. But many still view these as business or legal concepts with little relevance to their own lives. To address this gap, WIPO's Member States decided in 2000 to designate an annual World Intellectual Property Day. They chose April 26, the [...]
The legislation proposed by MST (ministry of science & Technology) has been modeled on the United States' Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act commonly known as Bayh-Dole Act (BDA) that came into existence in 1980. BDA created a uniform patent policy for the universities to own rights to patent resulting from federal funded research [...]
India has made tremendous progress in building a policy environment to encourage investment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India is principally governed by the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. In addition, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) issues various press notes from time to time, modifying the sectorial limits on FDI and [...]
Indian Premier League-Intellectual property League? IPL stands for Indian Premier League and this is a Twenty20 Cricket Competition controlled and created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) which is also the richest cricket board in the world. The popularity of IPL has been massive across all cricket loving nations and [...]
