An interesting patent application filed in China describes a lover's knot. This can be your first step before tying the final wedding knot if you do decide to take it all the way. The lover's knot is in the shape of a heart divided into two parts. One for the boy, and one for the girl. The parts can be linked with each other to make the heart.
The idea is that linking the halves together is a symbol…
With Valentine’s Day fever upon us, Sinapse team brings to you gifting ideas for the romantically inclined, among our readers. Buying the right gift can be a bit of a task, isn’t it? You want to be creative and original, and make each Valentine’s Day trump the last one. We sympathize with all our love struck readers, so here are a few patents which disclose romantic ideas/gifts.
To being with, we will start with a romantic and healthy gift: A…
In a major win to net neutrality advocates the telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) barred telecom service providers from charging differential rates for data services, which put an end to the robust Free Basics service marketing launched by Facebook and Airtel Zero platform by Airtel in its present form.
TRAI, sensing the need of the hour based on the huge cry for net neutrality by its activists and Facebook’s robust marketing of its ambitious project Free Basics,…
A new suit filed before the New York District Court, raises the curious question regarding the ownership of tattoo designs. Solid Oak Sketches that claims to own copyrights in several tattoo designs is suing Take-Two Interactive Software and other companies associated with the video game NBA 2K16. The NBA 2K16 is a basketball stimulation video game developed by Take Two Interactive Software that features several athletes of NBA including Le Bron James, Kobe Bryant, Kenyon Martin etc.
In its…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. The presentation is titled “Patent Law - An Introduction" and covers the following topics:
Patent Regime
Patentability Requirements
Patentable Subject Matter
Inventions Not Patentable
Examples
Industrial Applicability
Novelty
Inventive Step
Patent Process
Patent Rights
Patent Infringement
Claim Construction
Defenses
About Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
Dr. Kalyan C.…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad. The presentation is titled "Trade Secrets and Business Value" and covers the following topics:
Overview of Trade Secrets
What a Trade Secret means
Misappropriation
Defenses
Examples
Patents Vs. Trade Secrets
About Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala manages the largest new age Intellectual Property Firm, BananaIP Counsels, headquartered at Bangalore, India. In…
At last the long awaited GI tag has finally been bestowed upon the Basmati Rice grown in seven north Indian Basmati rice-producing states including Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
The order was issued on the 5th of February 2016 by Justice K.N. Basha, Chairman, IPAB, and Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal, technical member, Trademark, IPAB. The important aspects of the order issued to Assistant Registrar of GI Registry, by the Appellate…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad. The presentation is titled “Intellectual Property and Business Value” and covers the following topics:
IP as a Business Tool
Major Forms of IP
Integrated Protection
Patents
Patentability Requirements
Patent Process
Patent Rights
Patent Infringement
Claim construction
Examples
Patents in Business
Trademarks
Registration Process
Trade Mark Infringement and examples…
Scheme for Start-up Intellectual Property Protection (a.k.a Startup India):
Eligibility Criteria:
Any business entity registered in India, which is less than FIVE years old, whose annual turnover is less than Rs. 25 Cr in any of the preceding financial year, which is “working towards innovation, development, deployment or commercialization of new products, processes or service driven by technology or intellectual property”, certified by the Startup Promotion Board can avail the benefits under this scheme.
Benefits relating Intellectual Property:
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The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad. The presentation is titled “The Business of Intellectual Property” and covers the following topics:
Species of IP
Patents
Entertainment Patents
Copyrights
Brand value
Trademarks
Industrial Designs
Trade Secrets
Geographical Indications
Traditional Knowledge
About Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala manages the largest new age Intellectual Property Firm,…