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UNDP Issues Guidelines For Pharmaceutical Patent Examination

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has recently published guidelines for examination of patent applications relating to pharmaceuticals.The guidelines have highlighted the need for examining pharmaceutical patents from the perspective of public health.The guidelines set by Prof. Carlos M Correa strongly recommend nations to set out specific and more stringent standards for pharmaceutical patents. The guidelines also encourage patent offices to exploit the flexibilities allowed by the TRIPS Agreement with regard to the aforementioned guidelines. In his foreword, Mandeep Dhaliwal,…

July 1, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 704Views 0Like

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Celebrating the International Yoga day, the Patent way.

The word yoga is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘yuj’ which means to join or to unite, symbolizing the union of body and consciousness. Yoga is a 5000 year old Indian body of knowledge. Today it is practiced in various forms around the world. Yoga may be one route to distance children and teenagers from external distractions of today's world, leading to more focus, and more healthy body and mind. Today on, International day of Yoga, let us take a look…

June 21, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 856Views 0Like

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Admission Notice for Post Graduate Diploma in Patent Informatics by CSIR-URDIP

Patent Informatics has been described as the science of analysing patent information which supports decision making in research, technology and business planning. Taking into consideration the importance of patent informatics in today’s day and age, CSIR – URDIP has launched a one year full time post-graduate diploma course in the field of Patent informatics. The course has been designed to train candidates in the field of patent searching, reading and analysis for the purpose of creating patent landscapes, identifying research…

June 20, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Patents 0Comment 910Views 0Like

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Patent Amendment Rules 2016 – Courting Controversy and Confusion

The Patent Amendment Rules of 2016 came in as a much needed respite for many startups. It calls for appreciation of the government and the patent office for introducing several amendments to the Patent Rules which seek to enhance the efficiency of the IPR regime in India and more particularly of the Indian patent law. However, every change brings with it a short phase of chaos and confusion. The Patent Amendment Rules, 2016 brought into effect from the 16th of…

June 14, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 942Views 0Like

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Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation : A Victory For Software Patents

There is now a ray of hope for computer and software based patents. The case which is discussed below is the second one post Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International case. In Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corporation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a California district court’s summary judgment that two software patents were directed to an “abstract idea” without “significantly more” and therefore were not eligible for patent. The facts of the case are stated below.…

June 9, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1550Views 0Like

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Youth is elusive or Is It?

For centuries, people have tried searching for ways to stay ‘forever young’. In keeping with this tradition, a team of chemical engineers and medical researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a product that removes all the skin defects and makes you look younger. This is nothing but an invisible silicone- based film that can serve as a waterproof, sweat-proof and wear-proof sunscreen by creating a protective barrier from the sun. This product is described as a…

May 20, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 704Views 0Like

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Patent Amendment Rules 2016

In furtherance to the National IPR Policy released on the 13th of May 2016, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has issued a notification bringing the Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2016 into effect from 16th May 2016. Much of the content of the Draft Patent Rules has been maintained in the Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2016 with some further additions. Our post on the salient features of the Draft Patent Rules issued in 2015 can be accessed here…

May 17, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1156Views 0Like

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Terrafugia gets Flying Car of the Future Patented

Conventional cars are the ones that are driven on roads. A flying car or an aero-car is one such vehicle that can be driven on the roads as well as flown in skies. Flying cars have been a dream for most people for a long time. Most of us have seen flying cars in many science fiction and fantasy movies like Star wars, Back to the future, Harry Potter, etc. Finally after decades of dreaming and waiting, flying cars have…

May 12, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 895Views 0Like

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Understanding the PCT

There are a lot of internationally accepted treaties which govern the Patent Filing process when an applicant wants to file an application outside his own country. One such example is the PATENT COOPERATION TREATY also known as PCT. In this article we attempt to present a brief overview of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed on 19th of June, 1970. The PCT is an international treaty which offers a singular unified procedure which eases the…

May 10, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 727Views 0Like

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IP for Start-ups : A Presentation by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at CII Hyderabad

The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at the one day Seminar on ‘IPR Management for Startups in Electronics and ICT Sectors’ on 6th May 2016, in Hyderabad, organized by Andhra Pradesh Technology Development & Promotion Centre (APTDC) of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY). Participants of the seminar included Budding Entrepreneurs, Managers/Executives in Startups and Professionals in various functional areas of Startups such as Research & Development, Marketing,…