Applicants often approach us asking us how they can check the status of their patent applications online. Through this post, we attempt to show you how to exactly do this. The Indian Patent Office introduced the Indian patent search database called inPASS or Indian Patent Advanced Search System for the first time in 2015. inPASS replaced the then official database of the patent office called iPAIRS (Indian Patent Information Retrieval System) to provide a more simple, robust, and user-friendly database.
So how does…
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TRADEMARK QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible” –Saul Bass
INDIAN TRADEMARK STATISTICS…
IIM-B Presentation on Intellectual Property and Licensing from BananaIP Counsels
Intellectual Property
Patents
Copyrights
Trade Marks
Trade Secrets
Industrial Designs
Plant Varieties
Traditional Knowledge
Patents
Subject Matter - Invention
Useful
Novel
Non-Obvious
Term: 20 Years
Rights: Make, Use, Sell, Offer for Sale, and Import.
Copyrights
Subject Matter: Expressions
Original
Creative
Literary, Dramatic, Artistic, Photographic, Sound Recording, and Cinematographic Works
Term: Life Plus…
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COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Copyright Promotes Creativity by Proscribing the Right to Copy” -Kalyan C. Kankanala
INDIAN COPYRIGHT STATISTICS
There is a substantial decrease of 14.4% in the total number of copyright applications filed last week as…
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Interesting patent fact of the Week
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It is nearly well over a decade since the Indian Patent Office (IPO) first launched and introduced the e-filing portal for the filing of patent applications online in India. A lot has changed in these ten years. From a system riddled with bugs and constant crashes to a system that has become the preferred tool for the filing of patent applications with the Indian Patent Office, the online patent filing portal has evolved and continues to evolve with each passing…
Morality is regularly cited as a ground of objection by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) while examining applications involving sexual inventions relating to aids, devices and stimulants. To understand if any of the patent applications managed to overcome the said objections and proceed to grant, we reviewed patent applications in class A61 relating to sexual aids, stimulants, toys and methods. Details of the patent documents reviewed have been provided in another part of this post.
Out of seventeen (17) sexual…
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Patent Quote of the Week
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