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Practical Pointers on Managing Patents

Adopting good house keeping practices is a prerequisite to efficient management of patents. To avoid costly mistakes while prosecuting and maintaining patents, it is necessary to have an organized, yet simple systems for file management and docketing. Being jurisdictional in nature, seeking protection for every invention involves filing and managing multiple patents in multiple countries. Furthermore, most patent strategies adopted by companies to manage the lifecycle of their product involve filing multiple patents covering different aspects of the same invention…
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Indian Copyright News and Updates

  Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates, International Copyright and Entertainment Updates, Entertainment Trademark Updates, Licensing and Merchandising Updates, BananaIP News and Updates, Copyright Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment Law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright Quote of the Week “There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don’t think anyone wants to hold all of this…
May 26, 2017 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 610Views 0Like
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Trademark Statistics, Bubble gum smell mark, Kit-Kat Trademark battle, Spartan Poker Domain Dispute, Hyderabadi Biriyani loses GI tag and more

Trademark statistics, Interesting Trademarks, Indian Trademark updates, International Trademark updates, Domain name disputes and Geographical Indication updates brought to you by the Trademark team of BIP Counsels. Trademark quote of the week "Products are created in the factory, but brands are created in the mind"                                                                                                 --Walter Landor TRADEMARK STATISTICS There has been an increase of 76% in the total number of hearing notices issued by the Trademark registry this week. Particulars Last week This week Change in % Total Trademark applications examined by Trademark Office 8427 8501 An increase…
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Apple’s pizza box, iPhone 8 patent, IIT-B bottle design, Anti-rape shoes, Kodak Patent Portfolio license, Qualcomm v. Apple, Trade secrets and Misappropriation, Patent Tip of the week and more.

Apple’s pizza box, Interesting patents, iPhone 8 patent, IIT-B bottle design, Anti-rape shoes, Nike dispute, Kodak Patent Portfolio license, Qualcomm v. Apple, Trade secrets and Misappropriation, WIPO – North Korea Chemical Weapons controversy, Huawei Technologies, Patent Tip of the week and more, presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Patent Quote of the Week: “When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.” -…
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Employment to Entrepreneurship: Arnab Goswami, Times Now, Republic TV and Intellectual Property

  The row between Arnab Goswami and The Times Group (Bennett Coleman & Co.) elucidates some problems an employee turned entrepreneur may face from her/his erstwhile employer. Arnab Goswami was the star of Times Now, a television news channel, and his catch phrase, "The Nation Wants to Know," is extremely popular, to say the least. At the end of 2016, Goswami decided to quit Times Now on what appears to be not very amicable terms. In the first week of May…
May 20, 2017 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 676Views 0Like
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Drafting a Patent Specification

Introduction and Approach A patent specification is considered to be a techno-legal document because of the presence of technical details of the invention and legal limits of the protection embedded therein. The language used in a patent specification has a combination of technical and legal jargons. Patent specification is a document through which an inventor discloses the details of his invention in exchange for the exclusive rights awarded by the government. From a broader perspective, the government expects a patent…
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SanDisk Trademark dispute, Amazon Domain dispute, Banganapalle Mangoes and more

Trademark statistics, Trademark infringement, Trademark office updates, Domain name disputes and Geographical Indication updates brought to you by the Trademark team of BIP Counsels. Trademark quote of the week " The designer’s role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative"       -- Lester Beall TRADEMARK STATISTICS The Trademark Registry has been little slow this week. There has been a decrease of 16% in the total number of applications examined…
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Patents granted to Google, TVS & Microsoft, DIPP and WIPO agreement, Apple and Samsung v. Qualcomm, Expedited examination and more

Patent Validity, Interesting patents from Google, TVS & Microsoft, DIPP and WIPO agreement, WIPO Summer School on IP, Apple and Samsung versus Qualcomm, Seminars, and Conferences, Startup patents, Expedited examination and more, presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Patent Quote of the Week “Patent Validity is a figment of legal interpretation, it can be contested, reversed and cancelled any time before expiry.” – Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Renowned IP Attorney, Professor and Novelist…
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Indian Copyright News and Updates

  Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright News and Updates, Entertainment Trademark News and Updates, International Copyright Updates, Entertainment Patent News, Entertainment Licensing Updates, BananaIP Copyright Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm Copyright Thought of the Week “Originality is undetected Plagiarism.”    --William Ralph Inge Indian Copyright News and Updates Supreme Court rejects IRRO appeal in DU copyright case. The Honorable Supreme…
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Interesting Trademarks, AASHIRWAD Trademark Dispute, CGDPTM Annual Report 2015-16, US Special 301 Report, Pokemon Merchandising License and more

Interesting Trademarks, Trademark Statistics, Recent Trademark Updates, International Trademark Updates, Licensing Updates, Geographical Indication Updates and more brought to you by Trademark team of BIP Counsels. Trademark quote of the week “Trademark law must not be used to inhibit the freedom of speech in this powerful and important medium” - Kent Wills Trademark Statistics The Trademark Registry has been really busy this week. There has been an increase of 33% in the total number of applications examined by Trademark Office for this…
May 10, 2017 Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Trademarks 0Comment 747Views 0Like
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