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Hrithik Roshan’s New Film in Legal Trouble

Two days ago Times of India reported that Hrithik Roshan’s upcoming film produced by Rakesh Roshan and Sanjay Gupta under the banner FilmKRAFT Production had landed in a legal tussle with the model-actor Sudhanshu Pandey. Sudhanshu Pandey claims that the story, screenplay and dialogue of the film are copied from his script titled ‘Farmayish’. Informing the Mirror about the same, Sudhanshu Pandey said "I spent two-and-a-half years nurturing this script. It's my story and was to be the debut production,…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property December 10, 2015 509Views 0Like

World’s Best IP Blogs: Patent Baristas

For most people, an ideal day begins with a cup of coffee and a newspaper. The blog that we bring to you today is rather unique in its concept and content. It gives you the exact feel of sipping coffee while updating yourself with the latest IP news. Often featured as one of the top pharma blogs, Patent Baristas serves its readers with some “patent chat over a steaming cup of Coffee.” Patent Baristas is an intellectual property news and…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents December 9, 2015 868Views 0Like

Entertainment Licensing and Patents – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at SIS

The following presentation titled ‘Entertainment Licensing and Patents’ was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at the 32nd National Convention on Patinformatics (Patent Informatics) for Technological Competitive Intelligence and Licensing organised by Society for Information Science (SIS) in collaboration with CSIR’s Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (CSIR-URDIP). The presentation was given to an audience consisting of Scientists/ Researchers, Information Science Professionals, Patent Analysts, Technical Managers, IP Professionals, R&D Managers, Corporate Planning Managers and included the following topics- …

BananaIP Reporter Media and Entertainment Law December 9, 2015 449Views 0Like

World’s Best IP Blogs – Afro-IP

Afro-IP is an IP blog that covers the African intellectual property law, practices and policies. It provides the reader with news, information and comments on IP law, practice and business deals pertaining to the continent of Africa. Born in the last week of December 2007, Afro-IP arose from the concern of team leader Darren Olivier that there was no decent source from which to obtain reliable news concerning IP developments in Africa and nowhere to put it once you’d gotten…

BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property December 8, 2015 588Views 1Like

Igniting Creativity for Business Advantage – A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at Mahindra

The following presentation titled ‘Igniting Creativity for Business Advantage’ was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at Mahindra Two Wheelers on 8th December, 2015. The presentation was given to the senior management of Mahindra Two Wheelers and covered the following topics- IP and Business Forms of IP- accompanied by examples Creativity to Business Creativity Spectrum Business Value Proportionality Test Inventor Incentive System With the help of cases, examples and multi-media Dr. Kalyan’s presentation…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property December 8, 2015 456Views 0Like

World’s Best IP Blogs: Patently-O

Patently-O is an American based web blog which primarily covers the happenings in America with respect to Intellectual Property. The blog was founded by Dennis Crouch and launched in January 2005 and has often been cited as one of the best blogs of the US and the world. The blog presents an extensive empirical analysis of the US patenting system. It also provides patent prosecution tips for attorneys and inventors, statistics, and status updates of patent infringement cases. Over the…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents December 7, 2015 788Views 0Like

Disney Sues Venezuelan Company

Disney has always been extremely protective of its intellectual property. The company has been aggressively pursuing infringers who have tried to use its IP assets without authorization. The number of suit against these infringers has increased in the recent times, with the expansion of its IP portfolio due to its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment. There have been several instances of infringement concerning Disney films, such as 'Frozen', 'Star Wars' and the Marvel movies, which it pursued aggressively. Last week, Disney…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights December 5, 2015 587Views 0Like

World’s Best IP Blogs – IPWatchdog

In our previous post, we featured a superhero ‘Kat’ fondly known in the IP world as “The IPKat”. In this post we would like to introduce you to a watchdog. Beware! It’s no ordinary watchdog, it’s one among the best there is, in fact it is one of its kind in the world of IP. The blog we are talking of today is IPWatchdog. IPWatchdog was launched in the year 1999, and since then has become a trusted resource on intellectual…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property December 4, 2015 632Views 0Like

Comments and suggestions on the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2015

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion ("DIPP") issued a notification on October 26, 2015 publishing the draft Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2015 ("Draft Rules") seeking to further amend the Patent Rules, 2003 ("Patent Rules"). The notification dated 26 October 2015, published on IP India invited comments on Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2015. We have submitted our recommendations and suggestions to the Ministry and are awaiting to see positive changes in the proposed rules. In our…

BananaIP Reporter Patents December 2, 2015 527Views 0Like

World’s Best IP Blogs – IPKat

First things first, the previous month was a rather crazy one for us at BananaIP. In a span of 20 days we featured 84 posts, all of which were extremely well received. On this note, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all our readers for making the Blogathon a raging success. We also thank the readers for their continued support which encourages us to continuously strive towards excellence. The primary objective of BananaIP has been to bring…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property December 1, 2015 865Views 0Like

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