Category: Blogs
The Sun (Pharma) sets for Cadila HealthCare on VENZ
July 26, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:28 am
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
July 25, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 11:58 am
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
July 25, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 8:29 am
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
July 22, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:16 pm
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
July 20, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:20 pm
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
July 13, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 12:10 pm
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
July 12, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 8:21 am
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.
July 12, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:33 am
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
July 11, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 10:56 am
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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Converse Fails to Sneaks up on the Sneaker Industry
July 11, 2016
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 10:31 am
Converse’s Chuck Taylor sneakers loose trademark battle against Wal-Mart, Sketchers and New Balance. The U. S International Trade Commission(ITC) invalidated Converse’s trademark for chuck’s stripes, toe cap and toe bumper. In 2014 converse had sued 31 companies for infringing its Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers.
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