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India’s Rise in Global Innovation: 2024 GII Highlights

India’s strong performance in the Global Innovation Index 2024 reflects its leadership in innovation and social entrepreneurship. This report highlights key global innovation trends, including India’s growing impact on both national and international innovation landscapes. Continue Reading India’s Rise in Global Innovation: 2024 GII Highlights

September 26, 2024 BananaIP Reporter General 0Comment 468Views 2Likes

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Celebrating New Year IP Growth: A Bright 2024 Ahead

Welcoming 2024 with a focus on New Year IP Growth in India, celebrating advancements in intellectual property, patents, and trademarks. Join us in embracing a year of innovation and success in the IP sector. Continue Reading Celebrating New Year IP Growth: A Bright 2024 Ahead

December 31, 2023 BananaIP Reporter General, Intellectual Property 0Comment 597Views 0Like

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Prof. Thammaiah Ramakrishna Scholarship Celebrates It’s First Year

BananaIP Counsels recently celebrated the completion of the first year of their groundbreaking initiative, the "Professor Thammaiah Ramakrishna Scholarship for aspiring Patent Attorneys". The program is recognized for its innovative approach to encouraging and facilitating students in the legal and technical domains to enter patent practice. The first scholarship has been awarded to Muhammad Faris V, a Senior research fellow at the Inter-University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT. Faris, a BSc Physics graduate, has completed his post-graduation in…

June 16, 2023 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 846Views 0Like

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Patent Application Naming AI as Inventor in India – Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala opposes Stephen Thaler’s Patent application

The question of whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be an inventor in a patent application has been the subject of debate for a while now. There are arguments for and against this issue, and a few models have been proposed to resolve some of the legal problems. Read more Continue Reading Patent Application Naming AI as Inventor in India – Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala opposes Stephen Thaler’s Patent application

November 17, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1726Views 0Like

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Gaurav Mishra delivers a talk on Patent law

Mr. Gaurav Mishra recently delivered a talk on the law of patents in India at a seminar organized by the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in association with Sree Veerendra Patil Degree College, Bangalore on the 11th of October 2019. The seminar titled “IPR for Spurring Innovation and Creativity" was primarily aimed at helping students and faculties of science to understand IPR in general and grasp the importance of patents in relation to science and technology. The full presentation…

October 11, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1096Views 0Like

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This image depicts a Monkey standing with a stick and trying to describe what Patent Troll is with the basic definitions written in the Background. This image is relevant as USPTO has granted a Patent for a method of Patent Trolling. Click on the image for more information

Patent Trolls – Threat to Innovation and its Users!

This post was first published on February 11th, 2014. We are familiar with Patent Trolling strategies adopted by companies as a means to financial gain and to gain market advantage over competitors. Normally, in such cases, one company would use its portfolio of active patents to sue other companies which seem to infringe on their patent rights. This may trigger a litigation procedure in courts or get settled outside the court, at the expense of a huge amount of money.…

August 21, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 904Views 0Like

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The image is of a plant growing between coins, held between two human hands. The post is about patent incentives introduced by the haryana govt. To read more click here.

Just Launched: Patent Incentives for MSMEs in Haryana

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises contribute enormously to the socio-economic development of the country and this is not a hidden fact. MSMEs play a crucial role in providing large employment opportunities at comparatively lower capital cost than large industries. They also help in industrialization of rural & backward areas, thereby, reducing regional imbalances and assuring more equitable distribution of national income and wealth. According to the SME chamber of India, the MSME sector consists of 36 million units which…

May 3, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 871Views 0Like

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Top TED talks on Patents

We all love a good TED talk, an insightful and informative talk given by someone who understands the subject matter he or she is discussing. For all our readers who are not aware of what TED talks are, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. These TED talks are held all around the world and are primarily educational in nature. The talks do not focus on any one topic or subject, as the talks are delivered by speakers coming from…

April 1, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1787Views 0Like

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Innovation Driven Automobile Industry

The Indian auto and affiliated industries have seen unprecedented progress and growth in the last ten years. India has gone from an economy which used to replicate innovation and products from industrialized nations to becoming one of the preferred destinations for research and development, as well as manufacturing. To compete globally however, it is essential for organizations to invest in, develop and capitalize on their intellectual property (IP). But how to go about this is something that most Indian companies…

November 6, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 730Views 0Like

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What a Wonderful World!

If you have been following day to day updates of the intellectual property domain, especially the patent domain, you must have noticed the increasing number of patent litigations round the globe, over the past few years. Well, in this competitive world, terms like lawsuits and litigations shouldn’t be surprising at all. Still, the increasing number of patent litigations was an alarming concern, as most of the patent litigation proceedings are initiated by the companies to gain financial as well as…