Patent News Bulletin: Indian Patent Statistics, Indian Design Statistics, Interesting Inventions, Sony & Fujifilm settle patent dispute, OPPO signs patent license agreements with Intel and Ericsson and more” presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Patent Firm.
Indian Patent Statistics
A total of 1360 patent applications have been published in the 32nd issue of the Patent Journal, 2019. Out of the 1360 applications published in the journal, 158 applications account for early publications while 1202 applications account for ordinary publications or publications occurring after the 18 – month period. A total of 438 applications have been granted last week as compared to 646 grants in the week preceding the last thereby marking a decrease of about 32.19%.
Early Publications
| City | Previous Week | This Week | Percentage of change |
| Delhi | 5 | 32 | 540% increase |
| Mumbai | 2 | 15 | 650% increase |
| Chennai | 127 | 94 | 25.98% decrease |
| Kolkata | 0 | 17 | ———- |
| Total | 134 | 158 | 17.91% increase |
Ordinary Publications
| City | Previous Week | This Week | Percentage of change |
| Delhi | 628 | 721 | 14.80% increase |
| Mumbai | 373 | 213 | 42.89% decrease |
| Chennai | 233 | 233 | — |
| Kolkata | 42 | 35 | 16.66% decrease |
| Total | 1266 | 1202 | 5.05% decrease |
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS (Previous Week): 1400
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS (This Week): 1360
Percentage difference: 2.85% decrease
First Examination Report (FER) Statistics
A total of 1565 FER’s have been issued last week. Applicants and their agents can check if any of their patent applications have been examined by referring to the journal available here.
| City | No. of FER Issued |
| Delhi | 557 |
| Mumbai | 235 |
| Chennai | 590 |
| Kolkata | 183 |
| Total | 1565 |
Publications under Grant
| City | Previous Week | This Week | Percentage of change |
| Delhi | 223 | 175 | 21.52% decrease |
| Mumbai | 97 | 52 | 46.39% decrease |
| Chennai | 235 | 131 | 44.25% decrease |
| Kolkata | 91 | 80 | 12.08% decrease |
| Total | 646 | 438 | 32.19% decrease |
Number of Applications published based on ‘Applicant City’
Of the total 1360 patent applications published in the journal last week, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata have contributed a total of 145 applications. The total applications from each of the previously mentioned cities are as follows – 26 applications from Chennai, 22 applications from Bangalore, 49 applications from Delhi, 24 applications from Hyderabad, 13 applications from Mumbai and 11 applications from Kolkata.
| List of Cities | 1st January 2019 to 9th August 2019 | 2nd August 2019 to 9th August 2019 |
| Delhi | 803 | 49 |
| Mumbai | 446 | 13 |
| Bangalore | 722 | 22 |
| Chennai | 693 | 26 |
| Hyderabad | 279 | 24 |
| Kolkata | 179 | 11 |
Patent statistics summary (1st January 2019 –till date)
| Total early publications | 3004 |
| Total ordinary publications | 26576 |
| Total applications published | 29580 |
| Total grants in Delhi | 4938 |
| Total grants in Mumbai | 1889 |
| Total grants in Chennai | 4346 |
| Total grants in Kolkata | 2175 |
| Total Grants | 13348 |
| Total applications examined | 50698 |
Indian Industrial Design Statistics
The designs office has registered a total of 501 designs this week. The total designs registered from the 1st of January 2019 till date now adds to a total of 9781 applications.
- Total designs registered in the previous Week: 502
- Total designs registered this Week: 501
Total designs registered from the 1st of January 2019 till date: 9781
Interesting Inventions
A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SMART FARMING IN AN AGRICULTURAL LAND
Applicant – Sharda University
Patent Application No. – 201911028286
Abstract – “The present disclosure provides system and method for providing smart farming in an agricultural land. The system includes: water pump; sensing unit; and control unit operatively coupled to water pump and sensing unit, and having processors and memory. The sensing unit includes sensors to sense, in real-time, set of parameters such as temperature, humidity, moisture, soil fertility, soil quality, air quality, rainfall, dust particles and atmospheric gases. The control unit configured to: determine a set of values corresponding to the sensed set of parameters respectively; compare any of the determined set of values of a parameter with a predefined statistical value of the corresponding parameter such that predefined statistical values of the set of parameters stored in a database; predict fertilizer and amount of predicted fertilizer to be used based on comparison of the determined set of values with the corresponding predefined statistical values; and control water pump.”(This abstract has been provided as is and has not been corrected for errors.)
SMART ROTARY SWITCHES FOR GAS STOVES
Applicant – S KUMAR REDDY MALLIDI
Patent Application No. – 201941030462
Abstract –“ Smart Rotary Switch for Gas Stoves is an embodiment of an innovative idea for helping people in their cooking. This smart rotary switch will make an ordinary gas stove into a smart cooking appliance. This Smart Rotary Switch will be connected to a designated Wi-Fi network and comes accompanied by a mobile application. Once this smart switch was installed on a gas stove, the users can relax and concentrate on other works and the App will allow the user to control the flame levels of the burner from anywhere in the house. The switch also comes with an accessory part, an extension for real-time monitoring of the temperature of the food while cooking. Hence the user can monitor the temperature from anywhere in the house. The switch also provides a timer, once the timer was set, the device will automatically switch off the stove. The device and mobile application also come with pre-loaded menus which will make this device smarter. Once a menu was selected, the device will automatically monitor the temperature using the temperature sensing accessory and makes the entire cooking process semi-automatic with very minimal user interaction. An unfamiliar user can still use the gas stove in manual mode as the smart rotary switch will not eliminate the manual switch, it will be placed just in between the manual switch and the stove. (This abstract has been provided as is and has not been corrected for errors.)
Patent Infringement/ Settlement / Licensing / Commercialization
Sony & Fujifilm settle patent dispute
Fujifilm and Sony have decided to settle a long standing patent dispute between the two companies in respect of the LTO-8 tape media. The two tape media makers have reportedly agreed upon a global patent cross-licensing deal after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed their patent dispute case. Linear Tape-Open (LTO) refers to the magnetic tape data storage technology originally developed in the late 1990s as an open standards alternative to the proprietary magnetic tape formats that were available at the time.
OPPO signs patent license agreements with Intel and Ericsson
OPPO and Ericsson have announced the signing of a multi-year global patent license agreement between the two companies. The agreement covers patent licensing, and collaboration on a number of business projects. According to Tech-ish.com “As of January 2019, the company has filed more than 33,000 patent applications worldwide and owns more than 8,000 granted patents. The deal with Ericsson is the latest in a series of patent license agreements by OPPO with key telecommunication industry partners including Qualcomm, Dolby and Nokia.”
Authored and compiled by Vibha Amarnath & Gaurav Mishra
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