The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today the opening of a new high-tech National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in Northern Virginia that will help maximize member agencies’ authorities and resources to ..
The simmering suspicions over a proposed bill on intellectual property rights (IPR) that would give government-funded universities and research institutions the right to patent innovations has spilled out into the open once again with a popular blog ..
Roche Palo Alto LLC on Wednesday won a legal battle with Canadian generic drug company Apotex over a patent for an eye inflammation medicine.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a summary judgment Roche won in U.S. district court ..
Bollywood content on illegal websites and video-hosting sites is costing movie companies dearly. Are they up to the challenge?On a trip to Helsinki in Finland, Rajjat Barjatya stumbled upon 15,000 Indian families who had regular access to Bollywood m ..
The Indian patent office will provide drug innovators a chance to explain their views before a decision to grant compulsory licences against their patented medicines is taken. The patent office's decision has, for the first time, set rules for examin ..
India is no where close to countries like US, Japan and China, when it comes to filing patents. But it still does a significant bit in the IP space. A lot of it's happening through patent service outsourcing in India. This means, a lot of background ..
Patent applications filed by Indian pharma firms have witnessed a sharp fall of 41% during FY08. Data provided by the Controller General of Patents shows that only 449 patent applications were filed in 2007-08 compared to 765 filed in 2006-07. This i ..
A serious conflict is brewing between Indian retailers and multinationals over imports of global brands. To stay afloat in the dog-eat-dog world of retail, local retailers have reached arrangements with overseas players to bring in some international ..
The latest battle in Google’s ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the s ..
Research In Motion won a delay in a patent-infringement case filed by Visto regarding wireless e-mail technology. The trial was scheduled to begin next Monday in Marshall, Texas, but the judge said a postponement was warranted until the U.S. Patent a ..
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