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OSTP & USPTO give Recognition to Innovators

On April 20, the OSTP (Office of Science and Technology Policy) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted the 2015 - Patents for Humanity Awards in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The USPTO announced the winners on April 13, 2015. Patents for Humanity is the USPTO's voluntary prize competition for patent owners and licensees. The program was launched at The White House in February, 2012 for promoting businesses of all kinds to apply their innovations to address…

April 27, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 681Views 0Like

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Case Review: Hypnos Ltd. v. PEPS Industries Pvt. Ltd. & Ors

Citation : ORA/126/2012/TM/CH, Order dated 16th April, 2015 Parties Involved : Applicant : 1. Hypnos Limited (UK) Respondents : 1. Hosur Coir Foam Pvt. Ltd. 2. Peps Industries Pvt. Ltd. 3. The Registrar of Trademarks, Trademarks Registry, Chennai Brief Facts : The Applicant, a UK based family run bed manufacturing company, filed a rectification petition to cancel the registration of the ‘HYPNOS’ trademark owned by Respondent No. 1 under Class 20.…

April 24, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1113Views 1Like

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PEPS victorious in Trademark Battle against UK bed manufacturer

A two-year-long trademark litigation between Peps, the largest spring mattress company in India, and a UK bed manufacturer, has culminated with the Indian bed manufacturer emerging victorious! The Trademark Rectification suit was initiated in 2012 by HYPNOS, UK, for removal of the registered and highly popular ‘HYPNOS’ mark of Peps, from the Trademark Registry. The British Company claimed that the mark was famous in India owing to the spill-over of its trans-border reputation. In retaliation, Peps contested HYPNOS UK’s claim that…

April 24, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 704Views 1Like

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Models Sue for “use of persona”

Five US models sued FashionGlama.com and two individuals for the use of their photographs (use of persona) for escort services, and on pornographic websites. These models had allegedly signed 6-month contracts for modelling services, and were shocked to find their photographs on unwelcome websites. The suit alleges fraud, misrepresentation, unauthorized use of photographs (use of persona), breach of reputation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Though rarely pursued, such issues are very common in the Indian context as well. More…

April 22, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 717Views 0Like

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Analysis of Costa Rica Coffee (Café de Costa Rica) as a Geographical Indication

National Protection: Costa Rica has no registered GI for coffee but has included Geographical Indications and Denomination of Origin in the Law on Marks and other Distinctive Signs, 2000. To increase access to the international market with high quality products, iCAFE has established the program “seven regions, seven coffees”. In this program, important coffee regions with an individual profile were identified. However, it is still under discussion if a GI should be nation-wide or region-wide. But various national regulations…

April 22, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property 0Comment 954Views 0Like

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Mylan settles Patent Litigation with Pfizer

After Teva, Mylan has recently settled its patent litigation with Pfizer. After the settlement, a generic version of the drug is expected to hit the market in 2017, instead of 2020, the year of patent expiry in USA. The early release of the drug is expected to reduce the cost of the drug, benefiting millions of users as it happened in Europe and Canada in 2013/2014. The drug, Sildenafil, expired in Europe in 2013, and was the subject of patent…

April 21, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1322Views 0Like

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Introduction to Pre-grant & Post-grant Oppositions to Patent Applications

Chapter VI of the Patent Rules, 2003 deals with Opposition proceedings. Rule 55 states that opposition by representation against the grant of a patent be duly field via Form 7 and sent to the Controller in duplicate. Rule 57 lays down rule regarding filing of a written statement of opposition and evidence. By the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005 a dichotomy was inserted for the first time in the Patents Act with effect from January 1, 2005 by providing for “opposition…

April 10, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 862Views 0Like

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Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

Does the Intellectual Property Regime play a role in promoting creativity? As stated by most governments, the objective of patent, copyright, design and other laws is to promote the progress of inventive activity and creativity. Are these laws actually achieving their stated objective? While most of us would like to believe that they are, no empirical study has been able to conclusively prove so far that IP laws actually promote creativity. The logical question that follows would be whether we…

April 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 732Views 1Like

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The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB-MHRD workshop ‘Primer on IPR’s and its Economics.

Dr Kalyan was invited to speak as a panellist at a workshop conducted at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), IPR Chair on IP Management. The “Primer on IPR’s and its Economics” workshop was aimed to shed light on the concept of IP and discuss its economic theories related to the film and advertising industry. Date : 04/08/2015 [button link="http://www.sinapseblog.com/the-dawn-of-an-exceptional-ip-learning-approach-at-iimb/" newwindow="yes"] Read more[/button]

April 8, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 503Views 0Like

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Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

In a wide array of videos popular on YouTube, gameplay videos have quite a fan following. These videos involve gamers playing some of the most popular games, for viewers to watch. While copyrights over such games are reserved with the developers, they often face allegations of copyright infringement. YouTube, in its attempts to discourage such infringing videos, has introduced “copyright strikes” whereby the account flagged by the content owner for alleged infringement receives a copyright strike from YouTube restricting the…

April 6, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 1648Views 0Like

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Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

OSTP & USPTO give Recognition to Innovators

Case Review: Hypnos Ltd. v. PEPS Industries Pvt. Ltd. & Ors

PEPS victorious in Trademark Battle against UK bed manufacturer

Models Sue for “use of persona”

Analysis of Costa Rica Coffee (Café de Costa Rica) as a Geographical Indication

Mylan settles Patent Litigation with Pfizer

Introduction to Pre-grant & Post-grant Oppositions to Patent Applications

Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB-MHRD workshop ‘Primer on IPR’s and its Economics.

Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

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