At last Samsung has something to cheer about. USPTO have rejected US Patent No. 7469381 on 15th October, 2012 which was Apple’s rubber band patent. The patent office decision is an initial ruling and it will probably be challenged by Apple.It affects the patent for Apple’s “rubber banding” or “bounce” feature, which makes the [...]
Today with this article I bring to your knowledge about Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (from here on referred as TKDL). TKDL has been in news after India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that India can win 105 claims on international patents due to its TKDL. He gave this statement at the high-level segment meeting [...]
Stem cells are in news now days and this is because a British researcher John Gurdon and a Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on 8th October, 2012 for discovering that ordinary cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells, which then can turn into any [...]
Research & Development stands as one of the most important areas of corporate affairs. The basic foundation of a company in terms of its technical and organizational know how grows with the help of research and the development that follows. It plays a vital role in defining the progression of a corporate entity and [...]
In a recent judgment given on 25th September, 2012 Karnataka high court quashed Controller’s General order of banning a person with ‘Overseas Citizenship of India’ from practicing as a patent agent. The court also gave the Controller General, liberty to conduct a new inquiry and determine if he should be in Register of Patent Agent [...]
In next three year, patents of many multinational companies are going to expire. This will open a vast market for Indian generic companies. Indian generic companies are eyeing to capture an estimated $40 billion worth of market for generic or copied medicines. The main focus of the companies is on the countries with ageing [...]
