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Now Your Face Will Be An Emoji on Facebook
According to a recent patent granted to Facebook, When a user enters a emoji in a comment or message thread,…
Copyright Board To Be Dissolved
As per the Finance Bill 2017, Intellectual Appellate Board (IPAB) is to take over the functions of #Copyright Board. Current functional…
India’s Intellectual Property Right Enforcement Woes
In about mid nineteenth century, Charles Dickens urged America, the then developing nation with difficult economy, to join the fight…
High Cost of Patented Medicines, Evergreening And Section 3(d) Patents Act 1970 – A Perspective
Being world’s second largest population, having supposedly third of worlds poor, India has always struggled to strike a balance between…
Indian Patent Office Starts Functioning As International Search & Examining Authority
On 15thOctober 2013, Indian Patent Office announced its functioning as International Searching Authority and Preliminary Examining Authority under the PCT…
GLAXO’S SALT VERSION OF ITS CANCER DRUG REVOKED BY IPAB INDIA
In India where death among poor or middle class in absence of affordable medicine is not uncommon, evergreening of pharma…
MADRID PROTOCOL FOR INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF TRADEMARK BROUGHT INTO FORCE IN INDIA
Trademarks (Amendment) Rules 2013 and Provisions relating to International Registration of Trademarks under the Madrid Protocol have been brought into…
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT REJECTS CLAIM TO PATENT HUMAN GENE
On 13th June 2013, in one of the most important case in the area of Biotechnology Patents between “Association For…
Draft Patent Rules 2013
Central Govt. by way of notification dated 6th May 2013 has published Draft Patent Rules 2013 to amend Patent Rules…
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