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Coordination Committee of WIPO nominates Mr. Daren Tang for post of Director General; WIPO Academy, RGNIIPM and NLU Nagpur to host WIPO-India Summer School and more

IPO Postpones WIPO-Indian Summer School, WIPO Releases New e-PCT – version 4.7 And More

In this week’s Patent News – WIPO releases new e-PCT - version 4.7; IPO postpones WIPO-Indian Summer School until further notice; IPO issues notice containing list of withdrawn patent applications and other news updates. INDIAN PATENT NEWS IPO postpones WIPO-Indian Summer School until further notice In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Patent Office has indefinitely postponed the WIPO-India Summer School that was previously scheduled to be held between 1st June and 12th June 2020. The official…

April 28, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 924Views 0Like

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Tesla files Lawsuit against Ex-Employees and Zoox, Apple-Google’s COVID-19 Tracking Plan Faces Data Security Threats and more

Tesla files Lawsuit against Ex-Employees and Zoox, VIPKid accuses GSX of Stealing Trade Secrets, Indian Government Addresses COVID-19 App’s Privacy Concerns and Apple-Google’s COVID-19 Tracking Plan Faces Data Security Threats. Tesla files Lawsuit against Ex-Employees and Zoox Tesla, the American electric vehicle and clean energy company, filed a lawsuit against Zoox, an American self-driving car startup, and four other former employees, for allegedly stealing confidential information. The lawsuit claims that, that four of Tesla’s former employees who were later hired…

April 27, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection, Trade Secrets 0Comment 1018Views 1Like

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265 Patent Publications, 219 Grants in the last week

This week’s Patent & Design data has been compiled from the Official Journal of the Patents and Designs Office published by the patent office on the 24th of April 2020. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 265 patent applications have been published in the 17th issue of the Patent Journal, 2020. Out of the 265 applications published in…

April 27, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 775Views 0Like

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Selena Gomez files infringement lawsuit against FHL, District Court Upholds Social Media Terms of Use, NFL Quarterback Files Infringement Lawsuit Against Amazon and more

District Court Upholds Social Media Terms of Use, Selena Gomez files infringement lawsuit against FHL, NFL Quarterback Files Infringement Lawsuit Against Amazon, Pirate IPTV Service Faces Infringement Lawsuit, TikTok Threatened with Copyright Infringement Lawsuit, Apple Accused of Selling Pirated Music. District Court Upholds Social Media Terms of Use The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, recently passed an order that upheld the terms of use of the social media website, Instagram, with regard to a copyright…

April 27, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, e-Commerce Law, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Media and Entertainment Law, Publicity Rights/ Celebrity Rights, Trademarks 0Comment 1428Views 2Likes

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The IP Choices We Make Today Will Shape our Tomorrow

Today is world IP day, a day to ponder our IP choices, philosophies and commitments. We are going through a very tough phase, and are witnessing several established systems crumble. Knowingly or involuntarily, we took some of them for granted and deemed certain others essential. In the face of abnormality, many of them have failed, and many more might follow suit. Will the present IP system be one of them? Incentivizing innovation and creativity forms an integral part of the fight…

April 26, 2020 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Intellectual Property 0Comment 760Views 0Like

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1442 Trademark Applications Examined this Week

1442 trademark applications examined this week, 91816 trademarks filed so far in 2020. These statistics have been compiled from the official journal of the trademark office published weekly on Mondays. INDIAN TRADEMARK STATISTICS With the lockdown being extended till 3rd May 2020, there has not been much changes in the working of the Indian Trademark Registry. A total of 2474 new applications has been filed and 1442 total trademark applications has been examined by the trademark office. Weekly Indian Trademark Statistics Particulars Last…

April 23, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 651Views 0Like

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Apple Files Trademark for its Covid-19 App, MakeMyTrip Defends its Trademark and more

Apple Files Trademark for its Covid-19 App, MakeMyTrip Defends its Trademark, IP Offices Closed till 03rd May, Mizo Banana Loses GI Battle and more, brought to you by the Trademark Attorneys at BananaIP (BIP) Counsel. INDIAN TRADEMARK UPDATES MakeMyTrip Defends its Trademark The online travel company MakeMyTrip, filed a suit before the Delhi High Court for a permanent injunction to restrain MTB TRAVEL PLANNER (‘Defendant’) from using the deceptively similar trademark MYTRIPBAZAAR, its logo and the domain www.mytripbazaar.com, with respect to…

April 23, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 874Views 0Like

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Upcoming Event: Protecting IP through online enforcement

BananaIP Counsels, through Intellepedia, is happy to announce a webinar titled “Protecting IP through online enforcement”, an online event for content producers, trademark owners, and other IP owners. Individuals, and companies of all sizes, create intellectual property and make it available online in many ways including by selling products, offering mobile apps, or publishing pictures and videos. With the internet becoming the primary mode of content sharing at present, content creators commonly face situations in which their intellectual property is infringed…

April 22, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP Training 0Comment 969Views 1Like

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Online Enforcement of IP

Online Enforcement of IP Online infringement of Intellectual Property Online infringement takes many forms, from the sale of counterfeit or infringing products via the internet, to copying domain names and website content. The internet today has efficiently created a wide range of opportunities for business firms, companies, organizations, and individuals to communicate their brand messages and reach their target audience. However, keeping aside the internet’s openness, versatility, and global reach, its unregulated character has created a fertile ground for infringement of…

April 22, 2020 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Social Media Law, Trademarks 0Comment 1610Views 0Like

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Preference for Collaborative and Open COVID Innovation and Creativity

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated while declaring COVID-19 as a pandemic that COVID is not just a public health crisis, but a crisis that will touch every sector. True to his words, COVID has affected all sectors, and the much needed measures taken by Governments to contain its spread are causing economic difficulties. As per the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the continuance of the crisis and related measures might soon lead to global financial instability.…

April 22, 2020 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Intellectual Property 0Comment 1156Views 0Like

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Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

IPO Postpones WIPO-Indian Summer School, WIPO Releases New e-PCT – version 4.7 And More

Tesla files Lawsuit against Ex-Employees and Zoox, Apple-Google’s COVID-19 Tracking Plan Faces Data Security Threats and more

265 Patent Publications, 219 Grants in the last week

Selena Gomez files infringement lawsuit against FHL, District Court Upholds Social Media Terms of Use, NFL Quarterback Files Infringement Lawsuit Against Amazon and more

The IP Choices We Make Today Will Shape our Tomorrow

1442 Trademark Applications Examined this Week

Apple Files Trademark for its Covid-19 App, MakeMyTrip Defends its Trademark and more

Upcoming Event: Protecting IP through online enforcement

Preference for Collaborative and Open COVID Innovation and Creativity

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