About bLAWgathon Stumbling upon a piece of research that answers a crucial legal question is a common happenstance in the life of any lawyer, academic or student. Realizing the goal of community learning in the space of Intellectual Property and…
GrabOn– the Hyderabad-based affiliate e-commerce start up–has successfully won a trademark infringement suit filed against GrabOnRent – a Bengaluru-based product rental start up. The lawsuit was filed by GrabOn before the Delhi High Court, on the grounds of misusing the…
IIPRD has been successfully conducting several symposiums over the years on different Intellectual Property (IP) aspects. One of them is the upcoming three-day symposium on Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology &Chemical Patent Laws with focus on Preparation, Prosecution and Litigation in U.S., Europe,…
Toyota, a Japanese MNC recently decided to grant approximately 24,000 ‘vehicle electrification’ patent licenses on the technologies used by them in making of their cars, specifically in “green” cars i.e. Prius, world’s first mass produced electric car. The ideology behind…
Via Licensing’s Consortium’s LTE Patent pool is a holistic platform in itself that drives all innovators of vital LTE patents towards a single offering. A huge announcement was made by Via on 22nd July 2019 wherein the company went public…
CRISPR IP has been the talk of the town amongst life scientists. Where, Harvard Broad Institute of MIT and Millipore Sigma have finally decided how they will be offering intellectual property rights relating to CRISPR in the form of non-exclusive…
INTRODUCTION The word “Blockchain” is one of the most trending buzzwords of this decade. Everyone is talking about it. So, this term is worth the discussion in order to explore how it works and its potential application in this fast…
INTRODUCTION Malaysia is in the process of acceding to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol), adopted in Madrid on June 27, 1989, in order to take advantage of the anticipated growth…
1.1 INTRODUCTION The relevance of intellectual property as an asset has just surged in the last few decades and has become a strong foot for the economic development of the nations. Reasons like global competition, high innovation risks, short product…
ABSTRACT A patent is a legal document granted by the government giving an inventor the exclusive rights to make, use and sell the invention for a specified number of years with a usual term of 20 years. This term can…