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Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

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Ten Titans of the IP blog world

Last year in the month of December 2015, we ran a month long series acknowledging and appreciating some of the best IP blogs across the world. The blogs that were featured in the series called "World's Best IP Blogs" were primarily those blogs who have made and continue to make constant efforts in keeping us all abreast with the latest IP news, information and updates. While all of the blogs featured during the series are the best of the lot, this post…
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Patent Law-Basics of Specification Drafting- A PPT by Somashekar Ramakrishna at NLSIU

The following presentation was delivered by Mr. Somashekar Ramakrishna, Partner BananaIP Counsels, at National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU), as a part of the Patent law course offered for PGDIP students. The presentation titled “Basic of Specification Drafting”covers the following topics: Object of Patent Law Form of Application- Patent Application, Priority Date In the Indian Patent Act- Section 7, Section 10 Specification Contents Examples of Invention Title Preamble Technical Field…
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Dhoni and the Infamous Magazine Cover: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

To many cricket fans cricket is no less than a religion. And to many of such passionate fans Mahendra Singh Dhoni is no less than a God. However, when “Captain Cool” was featured as a deity on the cover of Business Today some people were not amused. In 2013, Business Today featured Dhoni on the cover of its April issue, with a report on the brand value of the sportsman titled “God of Big Deals”. The cricketer was depicted as…
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‘Affordability, Availability, Accessibility of medicines’

The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Research and Advocacy, headed by Professor T. Ramakrishna (Chair professor of IP at NLSIU),  and the MHRD Chair on IPR of National Law School of India University, Bangalore in association with the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, New Delhi organized a one day national conference on ‘Affordability, Availability, Accessibility of medicines and IPR’ on the 5th of January 2016. The main objective of the conference was to provide a platform to the government representatives, stakeholders…
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Bluebook vs Baby Blue

Bluebook is no stranger to a law student. It is a uniform system of citation that is wildly used/followed in the United States of America. Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal are the big names who jointly publish the book. The student editors from the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Pennsylvania Law, review and revise the Bluebook every five years. Due to its undeniable demand by every legal…
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Entertainment Law: No ‘soft kitty’ to put Sheldon to sleep?

“Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr.” All Big Bang Theory fans know that this lullaby is the only thing that can calm Sheldon down to a sleepy state. However, what they might not be aware of is that it now has become the subject of a lawsuit, recently filed by Ellen Newlin Chase and Margaret Chase Perry, daughters of Edith Newlin, the original author of “Soft Kitty”. Edith wrote the nursery…
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The First Amendment strikes again

  The Slants, an Asian-American rock band, founded by Simon Tam, had applied for  the registration of their band name as a trademark. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) however, refused to grant THE SLANTS trademark registration under §2(a), which bars registration for marks “[c]onsist[ing] of or compris[ing] … matter which may disparage … persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.” It stated that the mark was denied registration for being…
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New Notification: Change In the Format of Patent Application Numbers

Before we begin with the following post, warm wishes for a prosperous new year from the entire team of BananaIP. In 2015, we tried to provide you with a variety of blogs and articles relating to every aspect of intellectual property. In 2016 also we resolve to carry forward our endeavor to bring forth the latest happenings in the world of intellectual property. In this article, we will discuss about the latest change that has been introduced by the Office…
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Best Intellectual Property Blogs – IP Iustitia

  As we draw to the end of the year, we would like to draw this series of Intellectual Property updates to a close as well. I would like to take this opportunity to firstly thank all our readers for their continued interest and support, Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala for his guidance and most valuable comments on the featured Intellectual Property (IP) blogs and most importantly the founders/ the authors of the featured IP blogs for providing relevant details with respect…
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World’s Best IP Blogs – Written Description

Hello there dear readers, long story cut short, the blog that we bring to you today is called “Written Description”. Written description is primarily a Patent & IP blog which discusses recent news and scholarship on patents, IP theory and innovation. The weblog is very different from the ones that we have featured in our earlier posts. While there are several patent law blogs that report and analyze the latest patent news, there are extremely few blogs that discuss or…
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