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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 758Views 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 533Views 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 1723Views 0Like

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Open Source Software & the Government of India

The Indian Government recently released its policy on adoption and use of Open Source Software (OSS) for government projects. The policy seeks to cut costs and improve flexibility by using, implementing and contributing to OSS development. The policy mandates that preference in government software projects must be given to OSS, and Closed Source Software (CSS) must only be an exception when OSS is not available. The Preamble of the policy reads as follows: "Government of India (GoI) is implementing the…

April 2, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Open Source Licensing 0Comment 1640Views 0Like

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Nendran Banana gets Geographical Indication Tag

India is the largest producer of the world’s most popular fruit, the Banana, churning out over a quarter of Global production of Bananas, which brings us to the discussion at hand, i.e., Kerala’s sumptuous Nendran Banana has got Geographical Indication registrations from the Geographical Indications Registry, Chennai. Geographical Indication (GI) refers to any indication that identifies the goods as originating from a particular place, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its…

April 2, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property 0Comment 1785Views 0Like

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Student Blog Idol

Sinapse takes great pleasure in announcing the Winner of the Student Blog Idol contest of 2014! Without much ado, here are the Winners: First place: Nitish Chaudhary (decided based on quality and penmanship; adherence to topic and flow; ease of readability) 5 Second place holders: Neerja Gurnani, Archit Gupta & Ankit Agarwal (co-authors but taken as 2), Pallavi Singh and Amrita Vasudevan Congratulations to all winners! You will receive your prizes shortly. As promised, all participants will receive certificates of…

March 31, 2015 BananaIP Reporter General, Intellectual Property 0Comment 736Views 0Like

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Burger King and McDonald’s: Can Taste be Patented?

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. This post is authored by Neerja Gurnani. I recently went to the Burger King outlet that has been causing immense amounts of hype in Indian teenagers, stood in queue, got a burger, and eagerly bit into it, expecting my mind to be blown. Instead, I was greeted with a very familiar taste – that of a McDonald’s burger. This led me to ask, can taste be patented? Recipes…

March 31, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents, Trade Secrets 0Comment 2046Views 0Like

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Happy Birthday sue You; Happy Birthday sue You!

There’s no one who hasn’t awkwardly stood around their birthday cake while people sing "Happy Birthday to You". It’s the world’s most famous song, sung to millions each year. And this six-word set of lyrics with a simple melody is protected by copyright. In 1868, two Hill sisters from Kentucky composed a song called "Good Morning to All" (now known as the tune of "Happy Birthday"), which went like: Good morning to you, Good morning to you, Good morning, dear…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1883Views 0Like

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Impact of Reservation: A Socio-Economic and Legal Study

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. This post is authored by Pallavi Singh. The paper evaluates caste based reservation system in India. The Primary stated objective of the Indian reservation system is to increase the opportunities for enhanced social status for underprivileged. The reservation system exists to provide opportunities for the members of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Reservation is working in the opposition direction to its main objective as is demarcating the…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 4630Views 0Like

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The new IPR Policy, an innovative step?

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. This post is authored by Archit Gupta & Ankit Agarwal. Keeping in mind the promise made by the new Central government to bring a new Intellectual Property Rights policy, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has constituted an IPR Think Tank to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights Policy and to advise the government on IPR issues. The panel will identify areas in IPRs where study needs…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1192Views 0Like

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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!

Open Source Software & the Government of India

Nendran Banana gets Geographical Indication Tag

Student Blog Idol

Burger King and McDonald’s: Can Taste be Patented?

Happy Birthday sue You; Happy Birthday sue You!

Impact of Reservation: A Socio-Economic and Legal Study

The new IPR Policy, an innovative step?

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