In today’s digital age, everything from birthdays to weddings to anniversaries have been digitalized. One can always send personalized cards or messages via electronic means, the whole process is cheaper and time saving but for some reason, it does not carry the same charm as a physical card or a gift made pain stakingly.
Long distance relationships for instance are majorly based on communication between the lovers through phone or other means. Such relationships are often more difficult to keep…
"All you need is love, Love is all you need"- The Beatles
Its two days to go for Valentine’s Day, and it’s about time you stepped up your game. Although you don’t need a special day to express your love for someone, it doesn’t hurt to make this one extra special. A lot of you might be suiting up and you probably will be making dinner reservations, at a nice, posh restaurant. Maybe you will order her favourite wine or …
“Roses are red.
Violets are blue
Nobody can love you,
The way I do.
This little gift is for you
Because you know “I Love you”
That’s a cheesy enough short poem. Now, all that we need to do is to give these lyrics some tune and you are all set for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. But hasn't this been done to death? Time to think outside of the box.We have already had a bunch of posts now suggesting some…
Love is in the air, isn’t it? Valentine’s Day is only 4 days away and I presume some us will definitely end up shopping for our significant other on the very last moment. But do not panic, we have an easy, tried and tested solution for you. Chocolates!
Who doesn’t like chocolates? Chocolates can never go out of fashion and this gift works every time. Chocolate is sinfully delicious and let’s not forget it is also an aphrodisiac! So we…
With Valentine’s Day fever upon us, Sinapse team brings to you gifting ideas for the romantically inclined, among our readers. Buying the right gift can be a bit of a task, isn’t it? You want to be creative and original, and make each Valentine’s Day trump the last one. We sympathize with all our love struck readers, so here are a few patents which disclose romantic ideas/gifts.
To being with, we will start with a romantic and healthy gift: A…
In a major win to net neutrality advocates the telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) barred telecom service providers from charging differential rates for data services, which put an end to the robust Free Basics service marketing launched by Facebook and Airtel Zero platform by Airtel in its present form.
TRAI, sensing the need of the hour based on the huge cry for net neutrality by its activists and Facebook’s robust marketing of its ambitious project Free Basics,…
A new suit filed before the New York District Court, raises the curious question regarding the ownership of tattoo designs. Solid Oak Sketches that claims to own copyrights in several tattoo designs is suing Take-Two Interactive Software and other companies associated with the video game NBA 2K16. The NBA 2K16 is a basketball stimulation video game developed by Take Two Interactive Software that features several athletes of NBA including Le Bron James, Kobe Bryant, Kenyon Martin etc.
In its…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The presentation is titled “Patent Law - An Introduction" and covers the following topics:
Patent Regime
Patentability Requirements
Patentable Subject Matter
Inventions Not Patentable
Examples
Industrial Applicability
Novelty
Inventive Step
Patent Process
Patent Rights
Patent Infringement
Claim Construction
Defenses
About Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
Dr. Kalyan C.…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad. The presentation is titled "Trade Secrets and Business Value" and covers the following topics:
Overview of Trade Secrets
What a Trade Secret means
Misappropriation
Defenses
Examples
Patents Vs. Trade Secrets
About Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala manages the largest new age Intellectual Property Firm, BananaIP Counsels, headquartered at Bangalore, India. In…
At last the long awaited GI tag has finally been bestowed upon the Basmati Rice grown in seven north Indian Basmati rice-producing states including Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
The order was issued on the 5th of February 2016 by Justice K.N. Basha, Chairman, IPAB, and Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal, technical member, Trademark, IPAB. The important aspects of the order issued to Assistant Registrar of GI Registry, by the Appellate…