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New Notification: Change In the Format of Patent Application Numbers

Before we begin with the following post, warm wishes for a prosperous new year from the entire team of BananaIP. In 2015, we tried to provide you with a variety of blogs and articles relating to every aspect of intellectual property. In 2016 also we resolve to carry forward our endeavor to bring forth the latest happenings in the world of intellectual property. In this article, we will discuss about the latest change that has been introduced by the Office…
January 4, 2016 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 631Views 0Like
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World’s Best IP Blogs – IP Tango

Hello there dear readers. Hope you are all having a very Merry Christmas. In our recent post on the World’s Best IP Blogs we featured an IP blog from China called “China IPR.” In today’s post we bring to you an Intellectual Property blog from Latin America. Tango happens to be a dance form that originated in Argentina and Uruguay, in this context Tango refers to the second part of the name of the blog that we are bringing to…
December 26, 2015 Intellectual Property 0Comment 2329Views 0Like
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Merry Patents and Merry Christmas

  Christmas, the annual festival celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. People around the world have been observing this day with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. It is celebrated worldwide with few traditions like feasts, symbolic decorations, giving gifts and social gatherings. On this special day, we bring to you information on a few patents related to Christmas. An invention as disclosed in US 7132139B2 discloses a structure of an assembled type Christmas tree. The…
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World’s Best IP Blogs: PHOSITA

In patent law, PHOSITA is a mythical person of ordinary skill in the art. This fictional person is considered to have the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field, without being a genius. In our World’s Best IP Blogs series, PHOSITA happens to be an Intellectual Property blog of the Oklahoma and Washington based law firm of Dunlap Codding. The blog is not specific to patents alone as would be expected from a blog named “Phosita”; it is in…
December 18, 2015 Intellectual Property 0Comment 955Views 0Like
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World’s Best IP Blogs – IP Finance

  Intellectual Property (IP) plays a very important role in providing competitive and business advantage to a company. In order to maximize competitive advantage, a company must make the best and most of its intellectual assets. The owner of any Intellectual Property can procure financial rewards for its use. This is because like tangible property, if ownership of an IP can be clearly established, the IP could be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or mortgaged.   IP and Money have always been related…
December 16, 2015 Intellectual Property 0Comment 799Views 0Like
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FreeCharge trying to free you from the hassles of OTP

Online mobile rechargers, here is some good news for you. Recently FreeCharge, one of the leading e-commerce establishments in India acquired by Snapdeal (8th April 2015), has developed an idea to put an end to the never-ending wait to receive the SMS based One Time Password (OTP). Free charge has developed and filed a patent on the authentication system entitled ‘On The Go Pin' which is an alternative for the OTP. The ‘On The Go Pin' technology uses a pin…
December 15, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 507Views 0Like
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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…
December 9, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 857Views 0Like
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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…
December 8, 2015 Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property 0Comment 584Views 1Like
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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…
December 7, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 783Views 0Like
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Patented Anti Rape Inventions – Sex Patents V

  With the increase in the number of sexual abuse and rape cases over the years, women and men have devised creative ways of protecting themselves against these heinous crimes. From innovative clothes to inventive devices, several patents have been filed to fend off, and also, teach a lesson to rapists. We list a few patents here. Condom to stop rapists in their tracks- WO 2013142882 This is really a unique invention. It not only helps in preventing rape, but also…
November 27, 2015 Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 900Views 0Like
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