Author: Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India

Irony bell’s the KAT

Irony bell’s the KAT

Ukrainian, Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of Kickass Torrent or popularly known as KAT, has been arrested in Poland. The Department of Justice, U. S is seeking to extradite him for counts of criminal copyright infringement, in addition to conspiracy charges related to money laundering

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The Sun (Pharma) sets for Cadila HealthCare on VENZ

The Sun (Pharma) sets for Cadila HealthCare on VENZ

The Madras High Court decided in favour of Sun Pharma in the Trade mark dispute between Sun Pharmaceuticals and Cadila Healthcare over the deceptive use Sun’s trade mark VENIZ. Sun Pharma had adopted the trade mark VENIZ in August 2000, for medicines to treat depressive

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Fastrack Patent Procedure for Startups

Fastrack Patent Procedure for Startups

The Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2016 amended the Indian Patents Rules, 2003 and is effective from May 16th, 2016. The Patent amendment rules bring good news for Startups in India. The Patent Registration system in India would now recognize ‘startups’ also as an applicant and these

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No Man’s Algorithm

No Man’s Algorithm

With the release date of ‘No Man’s Sky’ round the corner, the Dutch company Genicap is alleging infringement by the highly anticipated game creators. It all started with professor Johan Gielis, in the early 2000’s created a geometric transformation formula. This formula helps to create

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#Hashtag Protection under Trademark Laws

#Hashtag Protection under Trademark Laws

With evolution of the present social media, hash tags have become an importing marketing tool. And thus, very frequently hashtag protection as intellectual property is thought of. Hashtags, are not designs or inventions thus, aren’t protectable under patent or design laws. They are too small

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Toyota is the ‘PRIUS’ User

Toyota is the ‘PRIUS’ User

The Delhi High Court, decided in favour of automobile giant Toyota in a case against Prius Auto Industries and Prius Auto Accessories Private Limited. In a 7 year old battle, Toyota contested that Prius Auto Industries had used Toyota’s trademark ‘Prius’. Prius was Toyota’s first

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3D Printing Technology: Protection Concern for Patent Attorney

3D Printing Technology: Protection Concern for Patent Attorney

The 3D printing technology in the recent time has been one of the fasted growing disruptive technologies. This led to introduction of websites like Shapeways and Thingiverse, which provides a creative solution to home based designers. At the same time the technology of the printer

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Bioconcept in its Quest to Cure Cancer wins Japan

Bioconcept in its Quest to Cure Cancer wins Japan

In recent good news for the medical community, Biconcept Inc. has been granted a patent for “Device and Methods of Cell Capture and Analysis”. The Patent was granted by the Japanese Patent Office. This Japanese Patent covers use of antibodies and micro channels to detect

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Bio-piracy and Traditional Knowledge.

Bio-piracy and Traditional Knowledge.

Bio-piracy may be understood as the commercialisation of genetic or traditional knowledge of rural and indigenous people. There have been many attempts to patent traditional knowledge or ancient wisdom of indigenous communities. In 1995 such an attempt was made, when two Indian scientists tried to

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Mcdonald’s Lovin’ it in EU

Mcdonald’s Lovin’ it in EU

A Luxembourg based General Court has upheld a 2013 verdict by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, in favor of McDonald’s Corp. A Singapore based firm, Future Enterprises had registered the trademark “MACCOFFEE” in 2010 with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, which was challenged

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