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Intellectual Property Rights News


Daiichi Sankyo gets a patent advantage

   16 June 2008 at 14:41

Apart from a five per cent share of the Indian pharmaceutical market, the purchase of Ranbaxy will take Daiichi Sankyo way ahead of others in the race among Indian companies for patent-protected drugs.A recent paper on ‘Patenting Landscape in India' ..



Red Hat Settles Patent Issue Involving Firestar Software and DataTern

   14 June 2008 at 17:44

Red Hat (News - Alert), a provider of open source solutions, has announced the settlement of patent litigation brought against it by Firestar Software and DataTern.Calling this settlement an “important precedent” in the breadth of protection for the ..



Abraxis to Appeal Jury Ruling on Elan Patent Infringement Claim

   14 June 2008 at 17:44

Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABII), a fully integrated, global biotechnology company, today announced that it intends to appeal the jury ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware that Abraxis has infringed upon a patent owned ..



T-Series files for copyright infringement against Yahoo

   14 June 2008 at 15:36

The Delhi High Court recently issued a notice to Yahoo Inc. and its Indian subsidiary Yahoo Web Services (India) Pvt. Ltd on a suit filed by Super Cassettes Industries Limited (SCIL) owner of the music label T-Series for infringement of their copyrig ..



Daiichi Sankyo vindicates Indian patent regime

   14 June 2008 at 11:57

Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar’s bold patent law reforms, suggested way back in 1959, which catalysed the Patents Act, 1970, stand vindicated now. The biggest tribute to his genius has come from an unlikely source: Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd, a Tokyo-based ..



A Question of Values: Drug Patent Laws Must Have Public Health Exceptions

   13 June 2008 at 17:43

Some big pharmaceutical companies are up in arms about developing countries importing less expensive generic versions of drugs for which these companies hold a patent monopoly. But the procedure is perfectly legal, even under the World Trade Organiza ..



1) Indian drug firms wary of global customs norms

   13 June 2008 at 16:18

The World Customs Organisation (WCO), the intergovernmental body that aims at developing global standards for Customs departments, is planning to recommend stringent norms for enforcing the intellectual property rights of export consignments. However ..



Manufacturing Cos lead in filing patents

   13 June 2008 at 16:18

Corporate India is in an innovation mode. And, it’s not IT companies, but manufacturing conglomerates that rule the roost, going by the maximum number of patents filed. That’s not all. A SundayET analysis of the latest intellectual property rights (I ..



Need to focus on GI in fight to reverse Ponni trademark

   13 June 2008 at 16:18

The fate of the famous Ponni variety of rice, nurtured in the fertile banks of Cauvery river across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, now registered under the Malaysian Trademark Act by Malaysian commodities retail giant Syarikat Faiza, has once again expose ..



India tackles cyber crime

   12 June 2008 at 13:15

India's top police officials and information technology experts are meeting in Delhi to discuss ways of countering cyber crime. The one-day "Cyber law and police" seminar has been organised by India's leading crime-fighting agency, the Central Bureau ..