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The Amazing Race: US and India Patent Statistics

The Amazing Race: US and India Patent Statistics

Half the year is gone, and we, as usual, were curious to find out who are all in the race to top the patent charts this year. We found an article that gives a comprehensive view of the US patent statistics and list of top contenders (in terms of number of granted patents and published patents). So, we performed a search to identify details of patent activity of the top 10 in the lists provided by Sqoop. The search methodology…
June 18, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 489Views 0Like
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Featured image of peps Spine guard mattress is used, as the post is about a trademark issue related to this. To read the post click here.

Peps Industries Vs. Shakti Mattresses & Gears

  The Delhi High Court has passed an ex-parte interim injunction against Shakti Mattresses & Gears Pvt. Ltd. on 29th May 2015, to restrain from dealing in the goods and services, under the mark ‘SPINE GUARD’, which is a registered trademark of the plaintiff, Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd. To briefly state the facts, the Plaintiff, Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd., is engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing and sale of sleep comfort products such as mattresses, pillows, cushions, sofas, beds and…
June 16, 2015 Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 561Views 1Like
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Intellectual Property, Creativity and Madness

Creativity forms the foundation of intellectual property and intellectual property law. The latter has no existence in the absence of the former. We, Intellectual Property (IP)/Patent attorneys, earn our bread and butter from creators and inventors. One of the joys of being an intellectual property attorney is the opportunity to work with geniuses. While the opportunity leaves one happy and contented on most days, IP attorneys once in a while come across personalities, very difficult to handle. Many a time,…
June 16, 2015 Intellectual Property 0Comment 826Views 0Like
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Regulation of Resources: Endeavours of National Biodiversity Authority

Our World is no more segregated into 7 continents and 247 countries. It is One Big Global Village. We can have access to anything that is exclusively available in one part of the world in our home country. For this, we ought to thank Globalization, Commercialization and Industrialization. The coming up of more industries, MNCs has made our world a better place to live in - a more accessible place to live in. But this does come with a cost.…
June 12, 2015 Biological Diversity, Intellectual Property 0Comment 777Views 1Like
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Is There a Trademark in a Name?

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare famously quoted these lines in his creation of the romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Enter 21st century and these famous lines could be debated to the ends of time. In today’s world, where there are fakes of fakes and more fakes than actual products, Shakespeare might have thought differently. Trademark Infringement and Passing off is something that we are all too familiar…
June 11, 2015 Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 686Views 1Like
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Featured image of peps Spine guard mattress is used, as the post is about a trademark issue related to this. To read the post click here.

Trademark Case Review: PEPS Industries v. Coir Foam

This article is a contribution by Savitran - Intern at BananaIP Counsels The Delhi High Court has ordered an interim injunction against Coirfoam India Pvt. Ltd. to desist it from using a mark identical or similar to ‘Spring Guard’, which is the trademark owned and registered by Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd. To briefly state the facts, the Plaintiff, Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd., is engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing and selling sleep comfort products such as mattresses, pillows, cushions,…
May 27, 2015 Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 622Views 1Like
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Rise of the Drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)

  Robotics has changed the way we work! A function, which was once done manually, has been replaced with robots working every inch of it. This reduces human error and losses of any form. On the same note, drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are a boon to mankind. Drones have been used by many national organizations to gather such information that is outside the domain of a human being. But nowhere have drones been used to deliver products to customers in and around a specific area. Yes,…
May 21, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 463Views 0Like
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USTR SPECIAL 301 REPORT (2015) – on Priority Watch List

USTR has released the 2015 report on the  adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Seventy Two (72) countries were reviewed in this report, and Twenty Four (24) countries have been placed on the Watch List, and Thirteen (13) on the Priority Watch List. Countries in the watch list include Canada, Columbia, Brazil, etc. India, China, Russia, Indonesia, etc., have been placed on the Priority Watch List. Last year, USTR had conducted out of…
May 2, 2015 Intellectual Property 0Comment 659Views 0Like
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Case Review: Hypnos Ltd. v. PEPS Industries Pvt. Ltd. & Ors

Citation : ORA/126/2012/TM/CH, Order dated 16th April, 2015 Parties Involved : Applicant : 1. Hypnos Limited (UK) Respondents : 1. Hosur Coir Foam Pvt. Ltd. 2. Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd. 3. The Registrar of Trademarks, Trademarks Registry, Chennai Brief Facts : The Applicant, a UK based family run bed manufacturing company, filed a rectification petition to cancel the registration of the ‘HYPNOS’ trademark owned by Respondent No. 1 under Class 20.…
April 24, 2015 Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 828Views 1Like
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Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

Does the Intellectual Property Regime play a role in promoting creativity? As stated by most governments, the objective of patent, copyright, design and other laws is to promote the progress of inventive activity and creativity. Are these laws actually achieving their stated objective? While most of us would like to believe that they are, no empirical study has been able to conclusively prove so far that IP laws actually promote creativity. The logical question that follows would be whether we…
April 9, 2015 Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 565Views 1Like
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