Category: Patent
Proposed Patents Rules
September 27, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 4:11 pm
August 22, 2023, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, proposed the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023. The proposed amendment is an attempt at expediting the process of patent applications and regulation of the same, which are
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Sonos V. Google: Patent Wars
September 20, 2023
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:20 pm
Sonos and Google have finally ended their long patent infringement disputes. The primary contention here is that Google was accused of infringing Sonos’ patents covering their sound technology and smart speakers. Sonos, initially known as Rincon Audio, is an American company based in Santa
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No Patent for Facebook
July 10, 2019
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 6:16 am
Recently the Delhi Patent Office dismissed Facebook’s patent application titled ‘analyzing a query log for use in managing category-specific electronic content.’ The Mark Zuckerberg led company had filed the patent application in 2007. This case is a classic example of how software-related innovations are entangled
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IMB Patents foldable smartwatch
July 9, 2019
Biswajit Sarkar - IP Law Firm India
Post time: 10:46 am
Tech giant IBM patented smartwatches which unfold into tablets on June 11, 2019. IBM had filed for this patent in 2016. This patent build on 9100 patents that the company received in 2018. Currently IBM does not manufacture any consumer devices. However, the smartwatch-to-tablet
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