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War Over Patent Ownership – Stanford v. Roche

This post was first published on 3rd March, 2011. The war between Stanford and Roche with respect to ownership of certain diagnostic processes is now being argued before the US Supreme Court. The dispute started with Stanford filing an infringement suit against Roche alleging infringement of its patents relating to methods for evaluating treatments for HIV. Roche asserted that it was not liable for patent infringement because it has ownership in the patents on account of its take over of Cetus,…

February 2, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 876Views 0Like

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Patents Enabling Stealthy Attack

This post was first published on 12th February, 2011. The prestigious Aero-India show 2011 has already taken off in Airbase Yelahanka. I wanted to watch the show on the opening day itself but unfortunately missed it. Aircrafts always has been a passion for me. So I thought of sharing some interesting facts about aircrafts, which are mentioned below. A fighter aircraft is primarily designed for air to air combat with other aircraft. Many of them are provided with ground attacking capabilities. The…

January 28, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 810Views 0Like

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Patent and Design statistics in India : Recap 2018

What happened to patent filings in India in 2018? Did they increase? Or did they decrease? How many patents were granted and how did they compare with the previous years? Which city filed the most patents in 2018 and how did the other cities fare? In this post, we bring to you a recap of the patent statistics from 2018 and a comparison of these numbers with the stats of 2017. Publications A total of 37554 applications were published between…

January 22, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1310Views 0Like

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Driving on Hydrogen

First Publication Date: 11th January 2011. It has been reported that Tata Motors has invested $15milliion on the research being conducted at MIT which aims at using water as a fuel to run cars. Every one is today keen to know about what is the need for this research and how it is possible? The conventional sources of energy for power generation are non-renewable and are depleting fast. As a result, the automobile industry is heading towards a crisis due to running…

January 3, 2019 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 862Views 0Like

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An Incentive to Green Technology Patent Applications

First Publication Date: 29th December 2010 In an extremely globalized world where we talk of reducing our carbon footprint, it is obvious that the leaders of tomorrow would be those who can use the alternatives to non renewable sources of energy to the fullest. Green technologies like Solar Energy, Hydel Power and Wind energy are being researched upon the world over and the least the governments can do is provide more and more incentives for development of these technologies. The U.S.…

December 30, 2018 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 918Views 0Like

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Once an Intermediate, Always an Intermediate

First Publication Date: 22nd December 2010 The other day, while I was having a heated discussion with 2 fellow bloggers about the patentability of repurposed drugs i.e. patenting of new use of a known drug, we hit a road block with regard to patent value of an intermediate. The question raised was "Will a newly found first use of an already known intermediate be patentable in India?" I am rephrasing the question for the purpose of this discussion. “Will the exclusion criterion elaborated…

December 26, 2018 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1087Views 0Like

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Mitigating Patent Risks

First Publication Date: 7th December 2010 This is in furtherance of the post "Assessing patent risk in India". Mitigation and management of patent risks assumes very high importance in the light of increasing patent enforcement in India. Risks from patents primarily come from infringement of patents of others. Some of the common strategies for risk mitigation are as follows: a. Design around; b. Licensing; and c. Invalidation. a. Design Around Risks from a patent can be mitigated by designing around the claims of the…

December 17, 2018 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1524Views 0Like

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Indian Patent Statistics, Interesting inventions, DIPP publishes draft patent amendment rules 2018, International patent news and more

“Indian patent statistics, Interesting inventions, DIPP publishes draft patent amendment rules 2018, European Patent Organization elects a new Chairperson, Alibaba all set to join the Open Invention Network, after Microsoft, LIPO launches its first ever web portal for IP Filings, IPOS grants its first patent under the FinTech Initiative and other Weekly Patent News updates” presented by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Patent Firm. Quote of the Week “The ultimate strategy is to increase…

December 17, 2018 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 864Views 0Like

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Patent Exhaustion in India

First Publication Date: 7th October 2010 A patent grants the Patent holder exclusive rights to prevent others from making, using, selling, offering for sale in the territory of patent grant or importing an invention into the territory of patent grant. Once an unrestricted sale of the patented invention is made, the rights of the patent holder with respect to the product are exhausted and this is called as the Doctrine of Exhaustion or First Sale Doctrine. As per the Doctrine of…

December 10, 2018 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 4688Views 0Like

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Indian Patent Statistics, Interesting inventions, Patent grants double in India, Samsung, Tivo, Nokia, Oppo sign patent licensing agreement, Apple and Qualcomm trial date set and more

“Indian patent statistics, Interesting inventions, Indian patent grants went up by 50% in 2017 - WIPO Report, Himachal based University files 105 patents in 2018, Court sets April 15, 2019 as showdown date between Apple and Qualcomm, Samsung and Tivo renew patent license agreement, Nokia and OPPO ink patent licensing agreement, Uniloc Corporation accuses Netflix of patent infringement, New patent rules will soon be implemented in Canada, Tough punishment for IP infringement in China and other Weekly Patent News…