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The Importance of Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs – A Short Talk With Dr. Sudhir Borgonha

First Publication Date: 1st May 2008 Dr. Sudhir is a graduate from St. John’s Medical College and Sloan School of Management, MIT. He has been on the founding team of three life sciences companies which include Angstrom Medica, Massachusetts, a nanotechnology based orthopedics application Company; Triesta Sciences, California, a genomics based cancer research organization and ClinTest International, Michigan. He currently serves as a CEO of ClinTest International and also runs Sandbox, a life Sciences Incubator. Q1. What is the value of…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP for Start Ups October 17, 2018 1037Views 0Like

Trademark Registration in India

The Trademark process outlines in this post has changed owing to changes in law. It may be noted that the post provides details of the trademark registration process as it existed 10 years back, and maybe useful for research/educational purposes.Registration of a trademark is not compulsory. However, registered trademarks have additional benefits when compared to unregistered trademarks. Read more Continue Reading Trademark Registration in India

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks October 17, 2018 1054Views 0Like

GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3

First Publication Date: 25th March 2008 Introduction The Lesser General Public License("LGPL") is a license used by the Free Software Foundation for software libraries. The license governs all open source software libraries of Free Software Foundation and many others who choose to use it. LGPL defines terms and conditions for copying, modification and distribution of software libraries. Version 3 of LGPL incorporates all provisions of the General Public License ("GPL") and lays down certain additional permissions for software libraries. Rights A software library governed…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Open Source Licensing October 16, 2018 1255Views 0Like

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Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

First Publication Date: 10th February 2008 The Mozilla Public License (MPL), is a license developed by Netscape Communications. Most of its provisions are same as the Netscape Public License. The license is considered to be a middle ground between the General Public and BSD licenses. Rights granted under the license Any software distributed under MPL grants both copyrights and patent rights to the recipient. The license grants the following copyrights over the software: Right to use; Right…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Open Source Licensing October 16, 2018 1123Views 0Like

The GNU General Public License

First Publication Date: 4th February 2008 The GNU General Public License ("GPL") is one of the most popular open source licenses. All software released by the Free Software Foundation and many other authors, are governed by this license. GPL provides the freedom to share and modify software under certain conditions. Copy, Run and Distribute GPL allows a person to copy, run and distribute the software governed by it. A person is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of the software, commercially…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Open Source Licensing October 15, 2018 1564Views 0Like

Trade Secrets Basics

First Publication Date: 4th February 2008 What is a trade secret? Trade secret is any information that has independent economic value because of not being known to others and for which reasonable measures have been taken to protect it as a secret. A secret is a trade secret only if it has legal sanctity. Terms like 'confidential information', 'proprietary information', 'undisclosed information' and trade secret have the same meaning from legal perspective. What is a reasonable measure? A measure to protect secrecy…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets October 15, 2018 752Views 0Like

Indian patent statistics, Interesting inventions, Nestle’s Patent Infringement Dispute, Apple versus Qualcomm and more

“Indian patent statistics, Interesting inventions, Patent infringement disputes, Nestlé’s Skin Health accused of patent infringement, Teva and Eagle Pharma file patent infringement suit against Mylan and Fresenius, Qualcomm versus Apple – setback for Qualcomm and other Weekly Patent News updates,” presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Patent Firm. Design Quote of the Week “Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.” - Co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb…

BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Patents October 15, 2018 754Views 0Like

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Planning the Right Privacy Policy for You and Your Visitors

First Publication Date: 4th February 2008. Over the past few months, demands for increased privacy regulation have taken center stage as increasingly private transactions move to the Internet. According to The New York Times, the Clinton Administration plans to impose privacy regulations on health care information in the waning weeks of his presidential term. Companies are faced with renewed pressure to update privacy policies as tracking technologies change and consumer concern grows. Privacy policies are not generic and must be tailored to…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Privacy / Data Protection October 14, 2018 542Views 0Like

OSS SERIES : A PRIMER ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

First Publication Date: 7th January 2008 The Copyright law protects ideas expressed on a tangible form. Ideas by themselves do not get any protection; only the expression of the idea is protected under the copyright law. To get protection an idea should be expressed as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematographic or photographic work or a sound recording. Such an expression should be on a tangible form such as a paper, canvas, tape and so on. Expression in an electronic form is…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Open Source Licensing October 14, 2018 694Views 0Like

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Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 1883 (Revised at Stockholm in 1967)

First Publication Date: 7th January 2008 Monopoly and related rights have always been frowned upon by the law. The Statute of Monopolies, enacted in England in the year 1623, established that monopolies are not acceptable in law, but made a glorious exception in favour of patentable inventions. Therefore, although the statute prohibited monopolies, it specifically preserved the right of the royalty to grant patents for inventions by manufacturers. In pursuance of this individual government backed incentive mechanisms that prevailed in different parts…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents October 13, 2018 3141Views 0Like

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