First Publication Date: 10th February 2008
The Mozilla Public License (MPL), is a license developed by Netscape Communications. Most of its provisions are same as the Netscape Public License. The license is considered to be a middle ground between the General Public and BSD licenses.
Rights granted under the license
Any software distributed under MPL grants both copyrights and patent rights to the recipient. The license grants the following copyrights over the software:
Right to use;
Right…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008
The GNU General Public License ("GPL") is one of the most popular open source licenses. All software released by the Free Software Foundation and many other authors, are governed by this license. GPL provides the freedom to share and modify software under certain conditions.
Copy, Run and Distribute
GPL allows a person to copy, run and distribute the software governed by it. A person is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of the software, commercially…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008
What is a trade secret?
Trade secret is any information that has independent economic value because of not being known to others and for which reasonable measures have been taken to protect it as a secret. A secret is a trade secret only if it has legal sanctity. Terms like 'confidential information', 'proprietary information', 'undisclosed information' and trade secret have the same meaning from legal perspective.
What is a reasonable measure?
A measure to protect secrecy…
“Indian patent statistics, Interesting inventions, Patent infringement disputes, Nestlé’s Skin Health accused of patent infringement, Teva and Eagle Pharma file patent infringement suit against Mylan and Fresenius, Qualcomm versus Apple – setback for Qualcomm and other Weekly Patent News updates,” presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Patent Firm.
Design Quote of the Week
“Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.” - Co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb…
First Publication Date: 4th February 2008.
Over the past few months, demands for increased privacy regulation have taken center stage as increasingly private transactions move to the Internet. According to The New York Times, the Clinton Administration plans to impose privacy regulations on health care information in the waning weeks of his presidential term. Companies are faced with renewed pressure to update privacy policies as tracking technologies change and consumer concern grows.
Privacy policies are not generic and must be tailored to…
First Publication Date: 7th January 2008
The Copyright law protects ideas expressed on a tangible form. Ideas by themselves do not get any protection; only the expression of the idea is protected under the copyright law. To get protection an idea should be expressed as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematographic or photographic work or a sound recording. Such an expression should be on a tangible form such as a paper, canvas, tape and so on. Expression in an electronic form is…
First Publication Date: 7th January 2008
Monopoly and related rights have always been frowned upon by the law. The Statute of Monopolies, enacted in England in the year 1623, established that monopolies are not acceptable in law, but made a glorious exception in favour of patentable inventions. Therefore, although the statute prohibited monopolies, it specifically preserved the right of the royalty to grant patents for inventions by manufacturers.
In pursuance of this individual government backed incentive mechanisms that prevailed in different parts…
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COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF…
Date of First Publication: 24/12/2007
Author
D.r Kalyan C. Kankanala ,
Chief Knowledge officer,
BananaIP visit bananaip.com
Introduction. 1
Part I - Overview of Anti Circumvention Laws. 4
International Treaties. 4
United States of America. 5
European Union. 6
India. 7
Part II - Problems with Anti-Circumvention Laws. 7
Part III - India and Anti-circumvention Laws. 8
Advantages to Users. 9
Advantages to content owners. 9
The conflict and its resolution. 10
Part IV - Conclusion. 11
Introduction
Copyright Law encourages creation of works of authorship by granting exclusive rights for a limited period of time.…
First Published Date: 24th December, 2007
Abstract
Patentability of computer programs is fraught with ambiguity because of multiple reasons. One of such reasons is the uncertainty and inadequacy of tests to determine patentability. Courts in the US have been struggling to evolve a test that would cover the complete continuum of innovation in computer programs, which manifests in terms of form or function or both.
All tests adopted by the court either focus on only form or function, thus missing out the…