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Patent Law in India- PPT on Introduction to Patent Law by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at NLSIU

This presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at NLSIU, India, as a part of the Patent law course offered for PGDIP students. The presentation covers: Types of Arguments - Ignorance, Denial, Balancing and Advantage; Class exercise on argumentation; Patent Philosophy; Patent Life Cycle; Patent incentives - invent, invest, disclose, design around; Patent Domain V. Public Domain; Rationale for Patent Protection - Social, Economic, Utilitarian and Tragedy of Commons; Progress of…

October 18, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 2614Views 0Like

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Patents, Compulsory Licensing and Business Strategy

The stated objective of patent law is to promote the progress of science and technology for industrial/economic progress and public benefit. It seeks to achieve this objective by granting exclusive rights over inventions to inventors for a limited period of time, on expiry of which the inventions enter the public domain. It is believed that the grant of exclusive rights generate incentives to invent, invest, disclose and design around, which in turn promote the progress of science and technology by…

September 29, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP Commercialization/Licensing, Patents 0Comment 719Views 0Like

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Pfizer files for Patent on Known Substance

This is in furtherance of Gaurav's post with respect to refusal of Pfizer Patent by the Indian Patent Office. I do not wish to repeat the facts or reiterate the order. However, I would like to bring forth one aspect of the order that seems to contradict the Novartis decision of the Supreme Court. In the Novartis case, the Supreme Court clearly laid down that assessment of subject matter and novelty/inventive step cannot be merged, and they are two segregate…

September 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 758Views 0Like

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Thomas Edison and his Moving Pictures

“To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk “– This is how Thomas Edison received a patent for the Kinetographic camera, a device for viewing moving pictures without sound. Edison patented this invention on August 1891. The camera was a giant step forward from the kinetoscope, which was not regarded as a significant invention by Thomas Edison. Kinetoscope comes from the Greek words “Kineto” meaning “movement” and “scopos” meaning “to watch”. The camera was based on…

September 2, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1098Views 1Like

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When Patents and Planes Travel Faster than Sound

How would you like to have Breakfast here in India, Lunch in America and be back home for dinner in India, all of it, being done on the same day!! Sounds unbelievable? Well, believe it! Patents seem to be flying out of the USPTO faster than the speed of sound! On July 14, 2015 a patent [US 9,079,661]was awarded to Airbus, also known as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company for an invention titled "Ultra-Rapid Air Vehicle and Related…

August 31, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Patents 0Comment 711Views 0Like

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Intellectual Property/Patents for Hospitals and Hospital Management

This presentation has been made by Nitin Nair. The presentation primarily deals with the importance of intellectual property protection in the hospital management sector. Besides stressing on the importance of protection, the presenter also elucidates the requirements of a successful patent grant, what is patentable subject matter and what are the necessary steps to be taken with respect to safeguarding inventions in the hospital and hospital management sector. The presentation begins with Section 3(k) of the Patents Act, 1970 (“Patents…

July 13, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1308Views 0Like

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IISc and its Patent Prowess

On 9th July, 2015, The Hindu reported that Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has made its way into the top five research and academic institutions in BRICS countries. The report mentions that IISc tops the list in terms of the number of research publications from an academic institution. It is noteworthy that seven institutions from China figure in the list. Team SiNApSE has earlier tracked news stories of IISc's intellectual property progress, and we felt that this would be a…

July 9, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Patents 0Comment 813Views 0Like

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The Case of Indian Intellectual Property – Misplaced Perception

Walking out and looking at yourself is not very easy, but it must be done to understand what is going on with you. That will also give an insight into how people are perceiving you. It seems that India has not been very successful in looking at itself as a third party, and understanding how other countries are perceiving it. Maybe, someone did that and was happy with the impression the country is making. This post is a response to…

June 26, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 769Views 0Like

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Intellectual Property, Creativity and Madness

Creativity forms the foundation of intellectual property and intellectual property law. The latter has no existence in the absence of the former. We, Intellectual Property (IP)/Patent attorneys, earn our bread and butter from creators and inventors. One of the joys of being an intellectual property attorney is the opportunity to work with geniuses. While the opportunity leaves one happy and contented on most days, IP attorneys once in a while come across personalities, very difficult to handle. Many a time,…

June 16, 2015 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property 0Comment 1024Views 0Like

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Mylan settles Patent Litigation with Pfizer

After Teva, Mylan has recently settled its patent litigation with Pfizer. After the settlement, a generic version of the drug is expected to hit the market in 2017, instead of 2020, the year of patent expiry in USA. The early release of the drug is expected to reduce the cost of the drug, benefiting millions of users as it happened in Europe and Canada in 2013/2014. The drug, Sildenafil, expired in Europe in 2013, and was the subject of patent…