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World’s Best IP Blogs – IP Finance

Intellectual Property (IP) plays a very important role in providing competitive and business advantage to a company. In order to maximize competitive advantage, a company must make the best and most of its intellectual assets. The owner of any Intellectual Property can procure financial rewards for its use. This is because like tangible property, if ownership of an IP can be clearly established, the IP could be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or mortgaged. IP and Money have always been related…

December 16, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1186Views 0Like

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Don’t Witch around says BCCC

The Salem witch trials might belong only in the history textbooks, but witchcraft is not a thing of the past in many parts of India. The National Crimes Record Bureau reports around 2300 occult, black magic and witchcraft related deaths since 2000. And many States like Rajasthan, Jharkhand and most recently Assam have passed legislations with provisions for tough punishments to curb the practice and bring an end to superstitious beliefs that have been nothing more than a legacy of…

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World’s Best IP Blogs – Likelihood of Confusion

Dear readers, we hope you are enjoying this series on the World’s Best IP blogs. The blog that makes it to our list of “Worlds Best IP blogs” today is called - Likelihood of Confusion. In legal terminology Likelihood of Confusion (or Confusing Similarity) is the legal standard that determines whether or not trademark infringement has occurred. The specific standard itself is defined by a vast body of law and varies jurisdiction by jurisdiction. This blog was launched by Ron…

December 15, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 703Views 0Like

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FreeCharge trying to free you from the hassles of OTP

Online mobile rechargers, here is some good news for you. Recently FreeCharge, one of the leading e-commerce establishments in India acquired by Snapdeal (8th April 2015), has developed an idea to put an end to the never-ending wait to receive the SMS based One Time Password (OTP). Free charge has developed and filed a patent on the authentication system entitled ‘On The Go Pin' which is an alternative for the OTP. The ‘On The Go Pin' technology uses a pin…

December 15, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 707Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs: FOSS Patents

We have often featured several posts on BananaIP with respect to Smartphones and the Patent wars that these Smartphone companies often engage in. Everyone is familiar with the legal battles that have been fought between the likes of Google, Apple, Samsung, Ericsson, Micromax, to name a few. They are often battles of epic proportions and the whole world watches these battles with bated breath. While many blogs and sites cover these issues from the surface, there is one blog that…

December 11, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1283Views 0Like

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Don’t take the God’s name in vain

“You cannot take ‘advantage’ of me”, Sita must’ve said to Ravan. And not surprisingly at all, the Honourable Supreme Court of India feels strongly for the sentiment. As was seen on the 27th of October, 2015 when the division bench comprising of J.Gogoi and J.Agrawal observed that using images of Gods and Goddesses as a part of a logo/label would be “taking advantage of the Gods and Goddesses” which wouldn’t be permitted. The SC also ruled that names of holy…

December 11, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1079Views 0Like

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Intellectual Property: Caring is Not Sharing

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, which makes engines for the Mercedes Petronas team has formally filed a lawsuit against one of its Formula One engineers Benjamin Hoyle, for disclosing confidential documents to a competitor. Hoyle joined in 2012 as one of the 4 Performance Application team leaders in the company and was set to leave at the end of 2015 and intended to join Ferrari after his contract. The suit alleges that he searched and saved files including a race…

December 11, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 733Views 0Like

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World’s Best IP Blogs – Patentology

In our previous posts, we featured some of the best blogs from the United States, Europe and Africa. The blog that we bring to you today is based in the land of the Kangaroos and Wallabies. Much like the Kangaroos, this blog also hops in with fresh IP news on an almost daily basis. The blog that I am talking of happens to be called “Patentology.” Patentology is an Australian blog which primarily covers IP news from within the island…

December 10, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 917Views 0Like

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INAUGURATION OF KSLU’S JOURNAL OF SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW VOL-I

Karnataka State Law University released the first volume of KSLU’s Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law on 30th November at the KSLU Campus, Hubli, with the intention of rendering an operative forum, to professionals, academicians and research scholars specifically on these subjects of law while facilitating deliberations and scholarly analysis on the acute issues. Prof. V.S. Mallar graced the occasion and released the first volume of the Journal. Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Honorary Advisor to the Editorial Board and an…

December 10, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 609Views 0Like

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Hrithik Roshan’s New Film in Legal Trouble

Two days ago Times of India reported that Hrithik Roshan’s upcoming film produced by Rakesh Roshan and Sanjay Gupta under the banner FilmKRAFT Production had landed in a legal tussle with the model-actor Sudhanshu Pandey. Sudhanshu Pandey claims that the story, screenplay and dialogue of the film are copied from his script titled ‘Farmayish’. Informing the Mirror about the same, Sudhanshu Pandey said "I spent two-and-a-half years nurturing this script. It's my story and was to be the debut production,…