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Candidates desirous of applying for the examination may visit the official website (www.ipindia.nic.in) between 11th February 2013 (11:00 a.m.) and 11th March 2013 (05:00 p.m.) and apply online. Detailed instructions are posted and applications will be required to be filed strictly in accordance with the said instructions. The candidates will be required to feed [...]
OLEV is an electric vehicle which works on electro-magnetic induction. It was launched on 9th March 2010 by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) headed by Suh Nam-Pyo. The city government of Seoul and KAIST signed a Memorandum of Understating (MOU) on the development of the online electric vehicle in August [...]
Delhi, Indian Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorney announces the commencement of Patent Agent Examination Training program. IIPTA aims at imparting advanced skills and high success rate among the students appearing for patent agent exam. The Patent Agent Exam is conducted by the Government of India every year. As the notification for patent agent [...]
The Patent Agent Examination will be held on 4th and 5th May 2012 at five different Centre (Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Nagpur) across the country. All the aspirants are keen to fill up the examination forms as it is being held after a gap of two years. I have collected some information and [...]
Compulsory licensing (CL) is a method used by the government which allows a domestic company to manufacture and sell a generic version of a patented drug with or without the consent of the patent-holder. Sections 84 and 92 of the Indian Patents Act, 1970, provide for Compulsory Licensing in cases where the patented drug [...]
India is again in news for its policy on compulsory license. After being in news for issuing first of a compulsory license on Nexavar, Indian government has decided to issue compulsory license for three more drugs (Indian Express news) which are related to the treatment of cancer. The three anticancer drugs that are the [...]
People all over the world thinks that providing patents to someone will help increase innovation but it is so not true. By giving patent to an inventor the innovation of other researchers gets hindered in some fields. Let us take the example of software patents. Software patents are just a piece of code which [...]
Even after India’s attempt to remove traditional knowledge (TK) from the list of things that can be patented, Indian Patent Office is granting patents on the use of TK of India which is related the Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha systems of medicine, and patents are also being granted on inventions related to biological resources [...]
On 19th December, 2012 Indian Patent Office issued new guidelines for the examination of patent applications which are related to biotechnology. The biotech inventions includes products and processes of gene engineering technologies, methods of producing organism, methods of isolation of microorganisms from culture medium, methods of mutation, cultures, mutants, transformants, plasmids, processes for making [...]
Indian patent office have issued some new guidelines for processing patent related to traditional knowledge (TK) and biological materials (BM). It has been done by the patent office in wake of revocation of Avesthagen patent. Patent office said that Indian patent offices are not taking TKDL seriously whereas other international patent offices are processing [...]
