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Creativity, Illegality and Intellectual Property

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, and articulating creativity is very difficult, if not impossible. Creativity is shapeless, and any defined approach to creativity defeats its ends. It is into this unstructured, boundless, and absolutely free world that the concept of intellectual property was introduced. IP, in its unduly glorified form, seeks to give shape to certain understandable elements of creativity and endeavors to protect the same. Copyrights seek to capture some elements of expression, Patents elements of invention, and so on. By laying…

June 5, 2017 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 825Views 0Like

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Patents and Cow Slaughter

"Cow Slaughter” has been a hotly debated topic for a while in India now. It started with laws banning slaughter and issues around citizen enforcement of such laws, and recently gained serious momentum after the Union Government passed regulations banning sale of animals in markets for slaughter under the Prevention of Cruelty Act. While the Madras High Court stayed the Government’s regulations on constitutional grounds, the Rajasthan High Court went to the extent of recommending life imprisonment for slaughtering a…

June 2, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1132Views 0Like

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Indian Copyright News and Updates

Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law News and Updates, International Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates, Entertainment Trademark Updates, Licensing and Merchandising Updates, BIP Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment Law Attorneys and Experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright Quote of the Week “A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead he respects it and upholds it.” – Maximillian Degenerez. Indian Copyrights and Entertainment Law Updates Gautham Gambhir moves to court for restraining a Delhi Pub…

June 2, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 813Views 0Like

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Tinder opposes Shinder for Trademark Infringement, Paypal vs. Pandora, Trump trademark in China, Super Nintendo Trademark, Pipariya Tur dal moves for GI Tag and more

Tinder opposes Shinder for Trademark Infringement, Paypal vs. Pandora, Trump trademark in China, Super Nintendo Trademark, Pipariya Tur dal moves for GI Tag and more brought to you by the Trademark Team of BananaIP Trade Mark News: Trademark quote of the week "A brand is not a product or a promise or a feeling. It's the sum of all the experience you have with the company" ---Amir Kassaei TRADEMARK STATS FROM THE INDIAN TRADEMARK OFFICE There has been a decrease in the overall…

May 31, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 953Views 0Like

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Uber, Driverless car, Samsung, Rollable tablet, Patent Licensing, Disputes and Settlements, Apple, Qualcomm, Nokia, McDonald’s, Patent Tip and more

Uber’s driverless car patent, Samsung’s Rollable tablet patent, Patent Licensing, Disputes and Settlements, Apple versus Qualcomm, Qualcomm versus Blackberry, Nokia versus Apple, McDonald’s Patent Infringement, Patent Tip and more, presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Patent Quote of the week People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and…

May 29, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Patents, Plant Varieties 0Comment 1036Views 0Like

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Practical Pointers on Managing Patents

Adopting good house keeping practices is a prerequisite to efficient management of patents. To avoid costly mistakes while prosecuting and maintaining patents, it is necessary to have an organized, yet simple systems for file management and docketing. Being jurisdictional in nature, seeking protection for every invention involves filing and managing multiple patents in multiple countries. Furthermore, most patent strategies adopted by companies to manage the lifecycle of their product involve filing multiple patents covering different aspects of the same invention…

May 27, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 872Views 0Like

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Indian Copyright News and Updates

Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright and Entertainment Law Updates, International Copyright and Entertainment Updates, Entertainment Trademark Updates, Licensing and Merchandising Updates, BananaIP News and Updates, Copyright Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment Law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Copyright Quote of the Week “There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don’t think anyone wants to hold all of this…

May 26, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 763Views 0Like

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Trademark Statistics, Bubble gum smell mark, Kit-Kat Trademark battle, Spartan Poker Domain Dispute, Hyderabadi Biriyani loses GI tag and more

Trademark statistics, Interesting Trademarks, Indian Trademark updates, International Trademark updates, Domain name disputes and Geographical Indication updates brought to you by the Trademark team of BIP Counsels. Trademark quote of the week "Products are created in the factory, but brands are created in the mind" --Walter Landor TRADEMARK STATISTICS There has been an increase of 76% in the total number of hearing notices issued by the Trademark registry this week. Particulars Last week This week Change in % Total Trademark applications examined by Trademark Office 8427 8501 An increase…

May 24, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1105Views 0Like

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Apple’s pizza box, iPhone 8 patent, IIT-B bottle design, Anti-rape shoes, Kodak Patent Portfolio license, Qualcomm v. Apple, Trade secrets and Misappropriation, Patent Tip of the week and more.

Apple’s pizza box, Interesting patents, iPhone 8 patent, IIT-B bottle design, Anti-rape shoes, Nike dispute, Kodak Patent Portfolio license, Qualcomm v. Apple, Trade secrets and Misappropriation, WIPO – North Korea Chemical Weapons controversy, Huawei Technologies, Patent Tip of the week and more, presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm. Patent Quote of the Week: “When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.” -…

May 22, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 764Views 0Like

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Employment to Entrepreneurship: Arnab Goswami, Times Now, Republic TV and Intellectual Property

The row between Arnab Goswami and The Times Group (Bennett Coleman & Co.) elucidates some problems an employee turned entrepreneur may face from her/his erstwhile employer. Arnab Goswami was the star of Times Now, a television news channel, and his catch phrase, "The Nation Wants to Know," is extremely popular, to say the least. At the end of 2016, Goswami decided to quit Times Now on what appears to be not very amicable terms. In the first week of May…

May 20, 2017 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 942Views 0Like

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Creativity, Illegality and Intellectual Property

Patents and Cow Slaughter

Indian Copyright News and Updates

Tinder opposes Shinder for Trademark Infringement, Paypal vs. Pandora, Trump trademark in China, Super Nintendo Trademark, Pipariya Tur dal moves for GI Tag and more

Uber, Driverless car, Samsung, Rollable tablet, Patent Licensing, Disputes and Settlements, Apple, Qualcomm, Nokia, McDonald’s, Patent Tip and more

Practical Pointers on Managing Patents

Indian Copyright News and Updates

Trademark Statistics, Bubble gum smell mark, Kit-Kat Trademark battle, Spartan Poker Domain Dispute, Hyderabadi Biriyani loses GI tag and more

Apple’s pizza box, iPhone 8 patent, IIT-B bottle design, Anti-rape shoes, Kodak Patent Portfolio license, Qualcomm v. Apple, Trade secrets and Misappropriation, Patent Tip of the week and more.

Employment to Entrepreneurship: Arnab Goswami, Times Now, Republic TV and Intellectual Property

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