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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Before Viacom filed its $ billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube, Google offered Viacom 592 million in guaranteed revenues if the company licensed its movies and TV shows to the site, According to newly released documents from the ongoing lawsuit, CNET News.com reported. Back in 2006, Google called content owned by Viacom — which [...]
As of Tuesday, 09/08/2011, the Online medium of the Patent Agent Examination Preparation Series by IIPTA is discontinued. The reason for such a decision is, Feedback from the per registered students about the difficulty in reading large books on line. The books were then made downloadable but not printable to keep check on counterfeiting, [...]
