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Patent News

  Hello Readers!! There has been a lot that has been brewing over the past few weeks with respect to Patents. We have decided to recapitulate the patent news which have recently hit the headlines in our segment, Weekly Trends. Let us take a quick look at what happened in the past weeks, with this weekly update.   Indian Patent office to hold meetings to make Patent examination process more user friendly The Indian Patent office has decided to hold meetings…
October 18, 2016 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 549Views 0Like
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Make in India and the untapped potential of Geographical Indications

  The Make in India program was launched by Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, in September 2014 as part of a wider set of nation-building initiatives. These initiatives were aimed at encouraging multi-national, as well as national companies to manufacture their products in India. Last year in July, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) had come up with various strategies, keeping “Make in India” as the backdrop to encourage innovation and creativity, further boosting the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. Some…
March 27, 2016 Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property 0Comment 968Views 0Like
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Intellepedia - IP News Updates

The times, they are a-changin’

In a previous post, we informed our readers about the new, draft patent rules that have been proposed by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India. The preceding post by Ms. Nisha Kurian presented an analysis of the proposed rules and sought to answer the question, if all measures to accelerate the patent registration process had been explored by the DIPP through these rules. While the proposed draft patent rules are likely to become effective from…
November 6, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 432Views 0Like
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