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Japanese Patent Clarifications

2012-02-11T10:30:00.000+05:30

Image from here Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), which is a not for profit government organization and represents industries and users of IP system, visited India and interacted with FICCI delegates on 16th January 2012. FICCI and the Indian corporate community took up this occasion to raise concerns about IP laws and practices in Japan. JIPA responded to these concerns raised...

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Drafting of a patent specification

2012-02-10T17:58:00.001+05:30

In order for an applicant to be awarded patent rights, the applicant should disclose his/her invention to the patent office and later to the public through a patent specification. The specification has to accompany the patent application and based on the details provided in the specification and claims written in it, the patent office determines as to whether the invention is patent worthy. ...

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Patenting Biotechnology Inventions

2012-02-10T11:00:00.000+05:30

Biotechnology has the potential to transform humanity provided humanity wishes to be transformed. It promises better drugs, medical treatment tailored to the individual patient's biological make-up, new crops and new industrial processes. Biotechnology companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars and sometimes decades to develop a product.Patents provide the needed assurance for...

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My notes, my copyright! Or Not?

2012-02-10T10:00:00.000+05:30

In a recent instance, a student of University of California was reported to student judicial affairs by the University for selling his notes to a website. This instantly generated a debate over whether the copyrights of notes taken by a student vested with the instructor or the student. Image from here The newly updated UC Berkeley policy restricts students from sharing notes....

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Research Institutes and Patent Suits

2012-02-09T15:39:00.004+05:30

Research centres today are waking up to the revenue potential of their research data and are ready to go to the extent of fighting legal battles to claim, protect and benefit from their intellectual property. One such battle is the lawsuit filed by the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at Pennsylvania against its former scientific director, Dr. Craig B. Thompson...

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SiNApSE IP Review (02.02.2012- 09.02.2012)

2012-02-09T12:38:00.000+05:30

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Patent Course for PGDIP Students at NLS, Bangalore

2012-02-08T17:43:00.000+05:30

Patents are vital for technology companies and play an important role in defining business and market strategies. Intellepedia and SiNApSE Team has launched a course for students at NLSIU, Bangalore pursuing PGDIP course, and is offered by Dr. Kalyan, Nishant and Som Shekar. The faculty members have made course materials such as power point presentations, video lectures, audio lectures,...

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Patentability of Software Inventions

2012-02-08T14:37:00.000+05:30

Today, there is no field in which software is not used. Surveys across the world have indicated that 99 percent of the industries use software. All fields ranging from telecommunications to agriculture use software at different levels. While the utility of software is unquestionable, many questions and concerns have been raised with respect to patentability of software. For further reading,...

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Non obviousness of Biotech Inventions

2012-02-08T13:48:00.000+05:30

Determination of non-obviousness is very complicated because of ambiguities inherent in the steps for making the assessment. The TSM test for ascertaining the mode of combination of prior art for assessing non-obviousness makes the determination objective and certain to some extent. However, the US Supreme Court in the KSR case expanded the test for combining prior art for assessing...

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Free Online Course on Patent Risk Management

2012-02-06T19:09:00.000+05:30

Knowledge driven organizations face a number of patent related risks during the stages of conceptualization, development, creation, protection and implementation of an invention. Patent Risks have to be managed with due care in order to avoid any patent related disputes with third party. In this regard, every member who contributes to the intellectual pool of an organisation should be equipped...

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Apoptosis Now !!!

2012-02-06T10:59:00.001+05:30

Impenetrable shields and unbreakable fortresses are defenceless against Virions. As they target the internal system, you wont see them coming and when they come there will be complete annihilation. Standard defense systems are generally beaten to nullity and all retrieval strategies fruitless. Some knowingly and others ignorantly allow Virions to...

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Screening Sun Screen products for patent infringement

2012-02-05T08:48:00.000+05:30

L’Oreal SA, the French beauty-care company, sued the owners of Coppertone(Merck & Co.,) and Neutrogena(Johnson & Johnson), in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, on Jan. 27, 2012, claiming their sunscreens use its patented ingredients. The Paris-based company expressed in court papers that such acts of infringement continue to defame and deter the popularity of the Brand. L’Oreal...

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Facebook Patents Portfolio- An insight

2012-02-04T05:56:00.000+05:30

“Face is the index of mind” is an old proverb. But, in the recent past, this proverb looks something like this : “Facebook is the index of a person”. Facebook, Inc is a social networking service and website that was launched in the year 2004 by Mark E. Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students. As of January 2012, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. The revenue for...

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Ghanaian Music Industry under threat

2012-02-03T11:08:00.003+05:30

Image from here Ghanaian Music occupies a special place in the world of music. The ethnic style of composing and presenting the music based on poly- rhythmic patterns played with drums, xylophones and bells are the monogram of Ghanaian music. Ghanaian music is well known as the source of High- life, Swing, jazz, rock, hip-hop etc. Off late, the Ghanaian Music Industry is going...

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Creativity Unleashed!

2012-02-02T18:08:00.000+05:30

“The originality of genius in art as in science consists of a shift of attention to aspects of reality previously ignored, discovery of inner connections and the perception of familiar objects or events in a new light”. -Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, 1964 The roundtable on “Managing and Protecting Creative Content in Cinema, Performing arts and Mass Media”, a unique initiative by...

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SiNApSE IP Review (24.01.2012- 01.02.2012)

2012-02-01T19:04:00.000+05:30

Patent Recap The Predators "To catch a predator" was a famous American reality show series which was aired from November 2004 till December 2007. The show featured hidden camera investigations in order to detain adults who tend to contact teenagers over internet, for sexual communications. Organizers of the show pretend like under age youth and tempt the people who...

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World Deprived of Viaguara - ??? Read On

2012-02-01T15:58:00.000+05:30

Image from here A polish company’s bid to register the mark ‘Viaguara’ in the European Union failed as the European courts refused to allow registration for the same in the category of energy and alcoholic drinks. Referring to the mark ‘Viagra’ registered by Pfizer Inc. Which is prescribed for cases of erectile dysfunction, the European Union High Court said that ‘Even if the...

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The Predators

2012-01-31T15:06:00.001+05:30

"To catch a predator" was a famous American reality show series which was aired from November 2004 till December 2007. The show featured hidden camera investigations in order to detain adults who tend to contact teenagers over internet, for sexual communications. Organizers of the show pretend like under age youth and tempt the people who contact them, to meet a decoy. Further the decoy, who...

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AIIMS Gets Into Information Commission's Crosshairs

2012-01-31T10:09:00.007+05:30

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was recently hammered by the Central Information Commission (CIC) for not providing information demanded via an RTI application. In the matter of Ms. Sakshi Mathur v. Ministry of Health & Family (decided by Central Information Commission on 25th January, 2012) the CIC directed AIIMS to provide the following information to the applicant( for her...

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Intel buys patents from RealNetworks for $120 million

2012-01-31T09:00:00.000+05:30

Image from here Intel acquires patent hoard from RealNetworks for $120 million. RealNetworks has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel for a price of $120 million. RealNetworks is selling about 190 patents, 170 patent applications and its next-generation video encoding technology. However,...

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India IP and Innovation Forum - Free for IP Counsels, Academics and R&D Professionals

2012-01-30T13:14:00.000+05:30

Managing IP and SiNApSe blog are pleased to announce that Kalpana Reddy, first secretary for intellectual property at the Embassy of the United States of America will deliver a keynote address Managing IP's India IP & Innovation Forum. The forum will take place in New Delhi in just over a month. There are limited places left available, secure yours today at...

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Song from ‘Agneepath's 'Oh Saiyya’ in copyright tussle

2012-01-30T12:39:00.000+05:30

A song from the recently released film Agneepath has gotten embroiled in copyright issue. The complainant Aditya Salankar, a Nagpur-based artist, moved to the district and sessions court at Nagpur claiming that the song ‘Oh Saiyya’ was a copy of a song penned by him. The complainant claimed that the song ‘Oh Saiyya’ sung by Roop Kumar Rathod in the movie is similar to his song ‘Teri...

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Law relating to Copyright restoration for Public Domain works upheld.

2012-01-29T10:12:00.004+05:30

The U S Supreme Court has recently while deciding the case of Golan v. Holder upheld the law relating to Copyright restoration for Public Domain Works. This law allows the grant of copyright protection to a large number of foreign works that have been freely available in the public domain. Background. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 1886, is the...

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Open Source Software Licenses, A presentation at IIM Bangalore by Dr. Kalyan Kankanala

2012-01-28T10:30:00.000+05:30

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Volkswagen's Five Door Car

2012-01-27T20:00:00.000+05:30

Volkswagen, a German automaker might have disappointed fans of German engineering by not showcasing its "Volkswagen Up!" in the recent 2012 Delhi Auto Expo, but here is a news to excite them - patent sketches of the five-door version of the "Volkswagen Up!" have been leaked in the internet. Volkswagen has added a new member to its "Volkswagen up!" concept, "New Small Family" series of...

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