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OCR: Credibility of India’s Intellectual Property Enforcement in Question

United States Trade Representative (USTR) ordered an Out of Cycle Review (OCR) for India in October. While the USTR insists that the aim of this exercise is to provide constructive feedback to India in order to improve its IP protection and enforcement, many in India are not happy about this move. Not only has the government criticized this move, but also refused to participate in it arguing that the US laws are not applicable to India. Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Commerce…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Patents 0Comment 805Views 0Like

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Can you sue if your tweet gets copied?

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. The Internet is often considered the Wild West of laws; People believe that laws that exist offline do not apply online, or there exist different rules of behaviour. So when you tap out a tweet and hit send, putting it in public domain, can you sue if it gets copied? Short answer: No. Long answer? It’s complicated. Copyrighting a tweet is extremely hard, for various reasons. Reporting on…

March 30, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 5336Views 0Like

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Congratulations to Rajiv Aggarwal, India’s New Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks

Sinapse congratulates Rajiv Aggarwal, IAS officer and Joint Secretary of DIPP - Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, for being appointed as the new Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) of the Indian IP Office. He assumed charge on March 18, 2015. Rajiv Aggarwal will be the third IAS officer who will be heading the Indian IP Office. Previously, Mr. Chaitanya Prasad and his predecessor Mr. P H Kurian held the position. These appointments gesture a change in trend from such…

March 26, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 987Views 0Like

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“Blurred Lines” for American Music Industry after Copyright Controversy

On March 10, 2015, a panel of eight jurors of a California Federal Court found the artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams guilty of copyright infringement in a plagiarism suit filed by the heirs of artist Marvin Gaye, alleging that the 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” by Thicke and Williams was a rip off of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got To Give It Up”. ‘Blurred Lines’, written and performed by Robin Thicke, T I and Pharrell Williams, was released on March 26,…

March 19, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 823Views 0Like

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IP Event held in honor of Late Hitesh Barot

I-HIPP (In-House Intellectual Property Professionals Forum), an IP Think Tank and advocacy group, had conducted a conference and moot court in memory of Hitesh Barot, a leading in-house IP counsel, on March 6, 2015 at ABB campus, Bangalore. Hitesh Barot, Senior IP counsel and Former Vice President of Technology Policy at General Electric (GE), was in a tragic accident that claimed his life on May 21, 2015. In a very unusual occurrence, Hitesh Barot was dragged by a crocodile…

March 17, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 983Views 0Like

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Case Brief: Shamnad Basheer v. Union of India & Others

Article contributed by Heema Shirvaikar, Intern at BananaIP Counsels, 3rd-year Law Student at Symbiosis, Pune. Facts and brief history of case: In 2011, a Writ Petition was filed before the Madras High Court by Mr. Shamnad Basheer, seeking a Writ of Declaration, to declare the establishment of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, and the Patents Act, 1970 as violative of the basic structure of the Constitution of India. Shamnad Basheer, founder of…

March 11, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks 0Comment 2224Views 1Like

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Smartflash takes a $ 532.9 Mn worth bite of Apple

Apple, known for suing other high profile companies, gets a taste of its own medicine. Apple Inc. has been ordered to pay US$ 532.9 Mn after a federal jury in Texas found that its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by patent licensing firm, Smartflash LLC. To market and commoditize his patents, Patrick Racz, in the early 2000s established Smartflash. As a non-practicing entity, the firm operates solely through patent licensing and litigation. Smartflash, a Texas-based patent licensing company, sued Apple…

March 10, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Patents 0Comment 786Views 0Like

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InterDigital Loses Patent Infringement Suits against Microsoft & ZTE

In a recent patent battle, InterDigital, the patent licensing company, lost its appeal to revive patent infringement suits against Microsoft and ZTE’s phone unit (previously NOKIA). InterDigital had been fighting with Nokia over royalties for over 7 years before Microsoft inherited the fight when it purchased Nokia’s mobile device business. After the ruling, InterDigital’s share price came down by 3.4% to US$ 49.14. InterDigital had filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and ZTE claiming they had infringed on 5 of its mobile phone technology…

March 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing 0Comment 792Views 0Like

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Strategic IP Audits – Presentation by Dr. Kalyan & Somashekhar

The presentation herein, by Dr. Kalyan Kankanala and Somashekar, was given at the National Law School of India University. Broadly speaking, the presentation takes us through the industries of Machine Tools, Plastics and Foundry. Keeping these industries in mind, major areas of IP are looked into such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs and trade secrets. Planning strategic IP audits using the available protectable IP in these industries along with the awareness of the actual protected IP is highlighted. It comes to…

March 6, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 664Views 0Like

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Presentation on Software and Music Licensing-By Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

The presentation herein was given by Dr. Kalyan Kankanala. It deals with the different types of IP, assignment and licensing. Important clauses such as Recitals, Definitions, Grant, Royalties, Term & Termination are discussed. All of these are explained with the help of examples. Open Source licenses are talked about in detail. Licenses and their types with a special focus on music licensing brings about the close of the presentation.

March 6, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Open Source Licensing 0Comment 796Views 0Like

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OCR: Credibility of India’s Intellectual Property Enforcement in Question

Can you sue if your tweet gets copied?

Congratulations to Rajiv Aggarwal, India’s New Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks

“Blurred Lines” for American Music Industry after Copyright Controversy

IP Event held in honor of Late Hitesh Barot

Case Brief: Shamnad Basheer v. Union of India & Others

Smartflash takes a $ 532.9 Mn worth bite of Apple

InterDigital Loses Patent Infringement Suits against Microsoft & ZTE

Strategic IP Audits – Presentation by Dr. Kalyan & Somashekhar

Presentation on Software and Music Licensing-By Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

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