{"id":68594,"date":"2020-04-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=68594"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:40:16","slug":"royalty-free-ip-license-covid-19-pandemic-patent-agent-examination-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/royalty-free-ip-license-covid-19-pandemic-patent-agent-examination-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Royalty free IP license to fight COVID-19 pandemic, Patent Agent Examination registrations extended and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s Patent News \u2013 Patent office cancels all hearings till 3rd<\/sup> May 2020; IPO extends deadline to register for Patent Agent Examination 2020; Irish national body creates non-exclusive royalty free IP license to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and other news updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

INDIA PATENT NEWS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Patent office cancels all hearings till 3rd<\/sup> May 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In view of the recent extension of the nation-wide lockdown by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, the Office of CGPDTM has issued a new public notice further to the previous notice issued on 25th<\/sup> March 2020. The latest notice issued on 15th<\/sup> April 2020 states that all offices under the administrative control of the CGPDTM shall not be physically accessible to the general public till 3rd<\/sup> May 2020. The notice also states that all hearings previously scheduled in this time period stand adjourned. The office will issue fresh dates at a later time. Further, CGPDTM has said that all e-filing services will remain open.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may click here<\/a> to access the public notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

IPO extends deadline to register for Patent Agent Examination 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A recent update by the Indian Patent Office indicates that the last date to register for the Patent Agent Examination 2020 has been extended to 4th<\/sup> May 2020. According to the notice, the extension of the date comes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation-wide lockdown that is to remain in effect until 3rd<\/sup> May 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may click here<\/a> to access the update on the official website.<\/span><\/p>\n

CII, Telangana, Chairman proposes establishment of IP pool <\/strong>to fight the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Telangana, Mr. Krishna Bodanapu recently proposed the establishment of a \u201cCOVID Innovation and IP pool\u201d to restrict exclusivity with regard to licensing and transfer of technology. The CII is encouraging Universities to file IP\u2019s on COVID related research as there may be several innovators claiming the same rights in the future. Further, the Director of CII, Mr. Subhajit Saha has said that academicians and industry specialists can approach the CII Telangana IP Facilitation Cell for any assistance that they might require.<\/span><\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL PATENT NEWS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Irish national body creates non-exclusive royalty free IP license to fight the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

AnIrish national-body called Knowledge Transfer Ireland has created a non-exclusive royalty free license with the objective to provide a path for Irish researchers to share Intellectual Property Rights concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Irish Times, the license is expected to help third level institutions to offer assistance in diagnosing preventing, containing, treating or minimizing the impact on the pandemic. The Director of the national body, Dr. Alison Campbell has said that the institute has witnessed a number of educational institutions opting for the license. The Irish Times has also reported that the new license will be available until the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the pandemic to have ended.<\/span><\/p>\n

Authored and compiled by Vibha Amarnath<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you have any questions, or need any clarifications, please feel free to write to\u00a0<\/em>contact@bananaip.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/em>: Kindly note that the news bulletin has been put together from different sources, primary and secondary, and BananaIP\u2019s reporters may not have verified all the news published in the bulletin. You may write to\u00a0contact@bananaip.com\u00a0for corrections and take down.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The post examines key IP updates related to COVID-19, including the Indian Patent Office\u2019s procedural changes and Ireland\u2019s royalty free IP license initiative. It highlights efforts to promote collaborative innovation during the pandemic through flexible licensing and policy measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[4129,42,5,10962,10963,23,3146,10961],"class_list":["post-68594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-covid-19","tag-indian-patent-office","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip-pool","tag-knowledge-transfer-ireland","tag-licensing","tag-patent-agent-examination","tag-royalty-free-ip-license"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140757,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68594\/revisions\/140757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}