December 15, 2014

DU to set up Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre

The University of Delhi (DU) recently announced that it is coming up with a new intellectual property rights (IPR) policy under which it will create an Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) at the Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC). The university is taking this step to ensure that awareness is …

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Indian Government bans import and sale of Xiaomi devices

The Delhi High Court has reportedly asked Xiaomi to stop selling and importing phones in India. The order has been issued after Ericsson, a firm that deals in networking technologies, approached High Court saying that Xiaomi phones infringed on its patents. In an interim order, high court has restrained Xiaomi as well as online e-commerce …

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Indian Company Receives US Patent for Alzheimer Treating Medication

Arjuna Natural Extracts Ltd, an Indian company has been awarded a patent for a composition for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by the USPTO. The patented turmeric extract formulation BCM-95, includes curcuminoid mixture and added essential oil of turmeric. The patent also covers method of making the composition. The turmeric extract formulation has already undergone …

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Row over KSRTC Trademark

The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and its Karnataka equivalent are in a trademark row over the mark “KSRTC”, as both are identified with the same acronym. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has requested Kerala to refrain from using the name KSRTC after obtaining a trademark on the name from the Trade Marks …

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AbbVie signs agreement and adds children\’s AIDS drugs to shared patent pool

AbbVie,  a research-based bio pharmaceutical company from the US has signed a Licensing Agreement for HIV Paediatric Formulations of Lopinavir (LPV) and Ritonavir (r) with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on World AIDS Day. The license agreement will enable others to re-formulate and manufacture specially designed LPV/r and r paediatric treatments for distribution in the developing world …

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Pirate Bay down as servers seized in Swedish police Intellectual Property raid

A police taskforce in Stockholm has raided the headquarters of the Pirate Bay, seizing equipment and computers resulting in a site outage recently. The Pirate Bay went down recently and remained so at the time of publication, with Swedish police confirming to Torrent Freak that was responsible for the raid. Paul Pintér, Sweden’s national coordinator …

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Google Shuts Down Google News In Spain In Response To New Spanish Intellectual Property Law

Google recently announced that it will close its Google News service in Spain as a result of a new Spanish law, saying the Internet had created “tremendous opportunities but also real challenges for publishers as competition both for readers’ attention and for advertising Euros increased”. “This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google …

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Dr Reddy Launches Anti-Cancer Injection in US

Dr. Reddy\’s Laboratories Ltd, a pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India recently launched DOCETAXEL Injection USP 20 mg/ml and 80 mg/ 4ml a generic version of TAXOTERE in the US market. The market value of the drug is worth $218 billion in the US Market. Taxotere (docetaxel) is a cancer medication that interferes with …

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Patent Trends

The Indian patent office granted 331 Patents for the month of November, 2014. The Top two consisted of GM Global Technology Operations, Qualcomm Incorporated, with a count of 14 and 13 patents respectively. The image shows the top ten Companies that received the maximum number of patents for the month of November, 2014.       …

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