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Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

Does the Intellectual Property Regime play a role in promoting creativity? As stated by most governments, the objective of patent, copyright, design and other laws is to promote the progress of inventive activity and creativity. Are these laws actually achieving their stated objective? While most of us would like to believe that they are, no empirical study has been able to conclusively prove so far that IP laws actually promote creativity. The logical question that follows would be whether we…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks April 9, 2015 739Views 1Like

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB-MHRD workshop ‘Primer on IPR’s and its Economics.

Dr Kalyan was invited to speak as a panellist at a workshop conducted at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), IPR Chair on IP Management. The “Primer on IPR’s and its Economics” workshop was aimed to shed light on the concept of IP and discuss its economic theories related to the film and advertising industry. Date : 04/08/2015 [button link="http://www.sinapseblog.com/the-dawn-of-an-exceptional-ip-learning-approach-at-iimb/" newwindow="yes"] Read more[/button]

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property April 8, 2015 508Views 0Like

Existing Trademark blocks Apple Watch sale in Switzerland

In latest news, Apple has been banned from launching its new Watch in Switzerland as in other European countries, scheduled to be on April 24, 2015, because of an Intellectual Property Rights issue. They cannot use the image of an apple or the word 'apple' to launch their product in Switzerland because of a trademark from 1985. The trademark currently belongs to William Longe, who owns watch brand, Leonard, that first filed the trademark application. He applied to the Swiss…

BananaIP Reporter Trademarks April 7, 2015 1136Views 1Like

Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

In a wide array of videos popular on YouTube, gameplay videos have quite a fan following. These videos involve gamers playing some of the most popular games, for viewers to watch. While copyrights over such games are reserved with the developers, they often face allegations of copyright infringement. YouTube, in its attempts to discourage such infringing videos, has introduced “copyright strikes” whereby the account flagged by the content owner for alleged infringement receives a copyright strike from YouTube restricting the…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property April 6, 2015 1664Views 0Like

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Nanoparticle Phoresis, Immense Potential

Calico, an independent R&D Biotech company established by Google Inc. and Arthur in 2013, is looking for ways to cure cancer, stop ageing and potentially make humans immortal. Google has been awarded a patent for ‘Nanoparticle Phoresis’ on March 5, 2015. The patent was filed in September, 2013 by Andrew Conrad, Head of Google’s Life Sciences division. The patent talks about Nanoparticle Phoresis which is a device that is able to transmit energy into a person’s body by radio frequencies, magnetic fields,…

BananaIP Reporter Patents April 3, 2015 749Views 0Like

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Open Source Software & the Government of India

The Indian Government recently released its policy on adoption and use of Open Source Software (OSS) for government projects. The policy seeks to cut costs and improve flexibility by using, implementing and contributing to OSS development. The policy mandates that preference in government software projects must be given to OSS, and Closed Source Software (CSS) must only be an exception when OSS is not available. The Preamble of the policy reads as follows: "Government of India (GoI) is implementing the…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Open Source Licensing April 2, 2015 1575Views 0Like

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Nendran Banana gets Geographical Indication Tag

India is the largest producer of the world’s most popular fruit, the Banana, churning out over a quarter of Global production of Bananas, which brings us to the discussion at hand, i.e., Kerala’s sumptuous Nendran Banana has got Geographical Indication registrations from the Geographical Indications Registry, Chennai. Geographical Indication (GI) refers to any indication that identifies the goods as originating from a particular place, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to its…

BananaIP Reporter Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property April 2, 2015 1726Views 0Like

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See what Calvin has to say!

Today we'd like to bring to you this little Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson that says it all! We leave it to the interpretation of our readers, to see what "all" means:

BananaIP Reporter Patents April 1, 2015 1539Views 0Like

Student Blog Idol

Sinapse takes great pleasure in announcing the Winner of the Student Blog Idol contest of 2014! Without much ado, here are the Winners: First place: Nitish Chaudhary (decided based on quality and penmanship; adherence to topic and flow; ease of readability) 5 Second place holders: Neerja Gurnani, Archit Gupta & Ankit Agarwal (co-authors but taken as 2), Pallavi Singh and Amrita Vasudevan Congratulations to all winners! You will receive your prizes shortly. As promised, all participants will receive certificates of…

BananaIP Reporter General, Intellectual Property March 31, 2015 713Views 0Like

Burger King and McDonald’s: Can Taste be Patented?

Here is the next post in the series of Student Blog Contest. This post is authored by Neerja Gurnani. I recently went to the Burger King outlet that has been causing immense amounts of hype in Indian teenagers, stood in queue, got a burger, and eagerly bit into it, expecting my mind to be blown. Instead, I was greeted with a very familiar taste – that of a McDonald’s burger. This led me to ask, can taste be patented? Recipes…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents, Trade Secrets March 31, 2015 1996Views 0Like

Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

Role of Intellectual Property in Promoting Creativity

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB-MHRD workshop ‘Primer on IPR’s and its Economics.

Existing Trademark blocks Apple Watch sale in Switzerland

Activision’s “Copyright strikes” spark outburst in Call of Duty gamers!

Nanoparticle Phoresis, Immense Potential

Open Source Software & the Government of India

Nendran Banana gets Geographical Indication Tag

See what Calvin has to say!

Student Blog Idol

Burger King and McDonald’s: Can Taste be Patented?

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