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Prof. Thammaiah Ramakrishna Scholarship for aspiring Patent Attorneys

BananaIP is happy to announce the launch of 'Professor Thammaiah Ramakrishna Scholarship for aspiring Patent Attorneys'. The primary objective of this scholarship is to encourage and facilitate legal and technical students to enter patent practice through paid internships and funded research programs. Any student pursuing law, science, engineering, or technology degree may apply for this scholarship. In the first year, sustenance funding will be provided to 5 to 7 students seeking internships at BananaIP Counsels. Professor Ramakrishna T. is currently the…

BananaIP Reporter General, Intellectual Property, Job Postings, Patents June 8, 2022 3239Views 0Like

Weekly Patent Statistics- 27th May 2022 to 3rd June 2022

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 27th May 2022 to 3rd June 2022

This week's Patent and Design data has been compiled from the Official journal of patents and designs, published by the patent office on the 3rd of June 2022. 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 1,442 patent applications have been published in the 22nd issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1,442 applications published in the journal,414 applications account for…

BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics, Patents June 7, 2022 1025Views 0Like

Latest Updates on Antitrust – June 2022 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week's Antitrust updates: Government mulling amendment to Competition Bill 2020 to give CCI wider powers over big tech companies In order to ensure that digital market remains open to new entrants and existence of meritorious competition between digital platforms, the Central Government is proposing to bring changes to the pending Competition Bill 2020. They aim to enhance the scope of the CCI over digital markets, with wider powers to be conferred on the CCI and…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition June 6, 2022 1125Views 0Like

Latest Updates on Privacy – June 2022 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week's updates on Privacy: Changes proposed to IT Rules 2021 allowing overriding of social media accounts A draft seeking amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 has been proposed by the Central Government. The draft imposes a greater burden on social media companies to set up a vigil mechanism and ensure its compliance while dealing with illegal and inflammatory content. A Grievance Addressal Committee (GAC) is also proposed…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection June 6, 2022 852Views 0Like

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Weekly Updates: Copyright and Entertainment Law

This is a weekly news update on Copyright and Entertainment Law. Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Jhund’ Receives Relief from Supreme Court In a recent decision passed by the Supreme Court of India, the feature film ‘Jhund’ starring Amitabh Bachchan among others, was given the green light for screening on OTT platforms in the ongoing copyright infringement claim against the film. The copyright infringement suit was filed by Hyderabad-based director, Nandi China Kumar, who had earlier attempted to prevent theatrical release of ‘Jhund’ on…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Uncategorized June 4, 2022 1808Views 0Like

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Weekly Updates: E-Commerce and IP Licensing News

Weekly news updates for the E-commerce and Licensing domain. Google once again ventures into E-Commerce After previously having tried to follow Amazon’s model for an E-commerce platform and being unsuccessful, Google is once again keen on venturing into E-commerce services. Through its second take at launching an E-commerce platform, Google intends to mainly compete with Amazon, which has thrived by offering digital space to small retailers. However, Google will challenge Amazon’s market position by offering an alternative digital market space to…

BananaIP Reporter e-Commerce Law, Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Uncategorized June 2, 2022 1308Views 0Like

CASE BRIEF : Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. vs Amazonbuys.in & Ors.

Facts The Plaintiff, Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd., owns, operates and manages the India online marketplace at www.amazon.in on which lakhs of third-party sellers and buyers interact and conduct their transactions. Plaintiff No. 2, owns the trademark ‘AMAZON’ in various classes and copyright on the ‘AMAZON’ logos. Plaintiff No.2 has licensed its copyrights and trademarks to Amazon Seller Services, for the purposes of promotion, publication and merchandising within the territory of India. Amazon Seller Services alleged that the Defendants, Amazonbuys.in and others…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Trademarks June 1, 2022 2302Views 0Like

Weekly Patent Statistics- 20th May 2022 to 27th May 2022

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 20th May 2022 to 27th May 2022

This week's Patent and Design data has been compiled from the Official journal of patents and designs, published by the patent office on the 27th of May 2022. 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 1,097 patent applications have been published in the 21st issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1,097 applications published in the journal,399 applications account for…

BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics, Patents May 31, 2022 1310Views 0Like

WEEKLY TRADEMARK UPDATES

This week's trademark updates are as follows: Coke Studio v. Cook Studio : The trademark conundrum The ongoing tussle between one Nikhil Chawla, proprietor , of "The Chawla Group" against 'The Coca Cola Company', has now been referred to mediation by Justice Pratibha M Singh. The Court stated that both the parties are being referred to the Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre on 31st May, 2022 . Mr. Rajeev Varma, Senior Counsel has been appointed as the mediator for…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law, Trademarks May 30, 2022 1427Views 0Like

Latest Updates on Antitrust – May 2022

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: CCI investigation into Whatsapp faces pushback The Competition Commission of India’s investigation into Whatsapp’s abuse of dominance in enforcing its new privacy policy that enabled the sharing of user data with business has hit a roadblock in Whatsapp’s belligerence against sharing information on its new privacy policy. Whatsapp has stated that it will withhold providing information on the same until the parliament passes the data privacy law. CCI has however…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition May 30, 2022 914Views 0Like

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