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Generication of Public Interest

This post was first published on 18th February, 2011. Public Interest today is a potent weapon of generic companies to safeguard their interests in the changing patent landscape in India. India's membership to WTO required implementation of the product patent regime for drugs by 2005 and implementation of the obligation was opposed by generic companies in the name of public interest. It was argued that the introduction of such a regime would impede access to medicines and health…

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Marrying Open Standards and Open Source

This post was first published on 16th February, 2011. Standards can either be open or closed based on the manner of their creation and their accessibility to the public. A standard that is created through public or community participation without any restrictions and can be used or implemented by any one are called open standards. A standard that is developed by and limited to one or more persons is a closed standard. All proprietary standards are closed standards. The basic tenets of…

Literary Works to Braille – Which Exclusive Right?

I write in response to Dr. Sunanda Bharti's post on Spicy IP, which talks about rights granted to copyright owners of literary works, and which right is involved in converting a literary work to Braille. In my opinion, the answer is not so complex as it seems. Braille is not a language, it is a form of expression of a language. It has the same alphabets as the language and nothing changes except the way in which letters are represented. So, converting a work…

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Accessibility, Copyrights, General, Intellectual Property January 29, 2019 852Views 0Like

Trademark Filing Requirements in India

This post was fist published on 16th February, 2011. A trade mark is a representation for a trade or business of a person. Though registration of a trade mark is not mandatory, registering a mark provides many benefits for enforcing trade mark rights. In order to register a trade mark in India, an application must be filed at any of the five trade mark offices in India. Where to file a Trade Mark application? The trade mark offices in India are located…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks January 29, 2019 1083Views 0Like

AvishCar – The Flying Maruti 800

This post was first published on 14th February, 2011. In the just concluded AeroIndia 2011, I had a chance to walk up close with the flying machines. Hidden among the multi-million supersonic fighter and bombers was an ordinary looking Maruti 800 with a few extra appendages, as seen here. This is a product from a Bangalore based company called the B’Lorean (the name seems to be a combination of Bangalore and DeLorean, the…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents January 29, 2019 1065Views 0Like

Interesting inventions, National Intellectual Property Awards 2019, Patent Infringement news, USPTO shutdown and more

“Indian patent statistics, Interesting Inventions, Invitations for National Intellectual Property Awards 2019, SEVEN Networks and Google settle a patent infringement suit, out of court, Apple accused of infringing Bluetooth related patents, Problems galore for USPTO, Japanese Patent Law may allow Plaintiff to cease infringed goods and other Weekly Patent News updates” presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Patent Firm. Quote of the Week “Understanding the important issues and working out how best to…

BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patents January 28, 2019 711Views 0Like

Patents Enabling Stealthy Attack

This post was first published on 12th February, 2011. The prestigious Aero-India show 2011 has already taken off in Airbase Yelahanka. I wanted to watch the show on the opening day itself but unfortunately missed it. Aircrafts always has been a passion for me. So I thought of sharing some interesting facts about aircrafts, which are mentioned below. A fighter aircraft is primarily designed for air to air combat with other aircraft. Many of them are provided with ground attacking capabilities. The…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents January 28, 2019 821Views 0Like

History of Copyright Law in India

This post was first published on 3rd February, 2011. Today almost every nation has a copyright law in place and is mostly standardized to some extent through international and regional agreements such as the Berne Convention and the European copyright directives. But when we look back, we realise that the Copyright law has a very unique history. The earliest copyright case is traced back to Ireland, where there was a dispute over the ownership of the…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law January 28, 2019 3764Views 0Like

Accessibility of Science to Persons with Blindness: Miles and Miles To Go

In my earlier post, I spoke about the legal framework for access of information and data to persons with blindness and other disabilities from the copyright and disabilities statute perspectives. In the article, I pointed out that access has been placed at less than one (1) percent and that the proportion of access is diminishing as the universe of information is expanding at a rapid rate. Sources and forms of information are changing so fast that that accessibility is finding…

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Accessibility, General, Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge January 28, 2019 1235Views 0Like

In this post, we bring to you a recap of the Trademark and Copyright statistics from 2018 and a comparison of these numbers with the statistics of 2017. COPYRIGHT YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 Copyright Applications Filed in 2018 Work No. of Applications in 2018 Literary/Dramatic 9,652 Artistic 4,698 Music 323 Cinematograph 306 Sound Recording 710 Computer Software 2,143 Total 17,832 Copyright Applications Filed Monthly in 2018 Month Literary/Dramatic Artistic Music Cinematograph Sound Recording Computer Software January 949 387 39 28 45 152 February 756 339 35 11 70 101 March 898 346 31 51 42 153 April 840 404 17 14 35 587 May 778 390 31 27 142 157 June 710 410 26 21 87 215…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Trademarks January 25, 2019 1066Views 0Like

Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

Generication of Public Interest

Marrying Open Standards and Open Source

Literary Works to Braille – Which Exclusive Right?

Trademark Filing Requirements in India

AvishCar – The Flying Maruti 800

Interesting inventions, National Intellectual Property Awards 2019, Patent Infringement news, USPTO shutdown and more

Patents Enabling Stealthy Attack

History of Copyright Law in India

Accessibility of Science to Persons with Blindness: Miles and Miles To Go

Trademark and Copyright Statistics in India: Recap 2018

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