IN CHINA, COURT FINES "FLESH SEARCH ENGINE"20 Dec 2008, 0247 hrs IST,Mark McDonald, NYT News Service HONG KONG: In the first case involving “cyber-violence” and a “human flesh search engine” in China, a court has fined a website and an internet user ..
"" WEB TERRORISM "" GOOGLE HAUNTED BY WEB ATTACKERS20 Dec 2008, 1212 hrs IST, Jessica Mehroin Irani, ET Bureau MUMBAI: No one is safe on the internet. Not even Google. Web attackers have started paying the search engine to host their malicious websit ..
New Delhi: In a first-ever instance of a patent being revoked after being granted, the Madras High Court has set aside pharma major Roche’s patent on key drug, valganciclovir on procedural grounds. A patent on valganciclovir was granted to the compan ..
Indian Patent Office announced the patent agent examination will be conducted on 29 and 30th December 2008.To know more about the patent agent exam, click the linkhttp://indiapatents.blogspot.com/2008/11/patent-agent-exam-in-india.html ..
The Jharkhand government has been granted a patent on tussar produced in Kuchai and Kharswan areas of Saraikela-Kharswan district in the state.With this patent, a pilot project launched on an experimental basis to give tussar produced in Jharkhand an ..
China is set to review a draft law on food safety on Thursday, a day after the UN urged the country to enact stricter laws and replace its patchwork surveillance system to help restore public trust badly shaken by a spate of food safety scandals.The ..
the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] plans to transfer at least 3,000 patents to a separate, professionally managed company. Now we can sense, India is rolling in to IP Commercialization.To know more about, please visit,http://ind ..
Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India has now released draft version of the National Innovation Act 2008.Preamble of National Innovation Act states as An Act to facilitate public, private or public- private partnership initiatives for b ..
In order to avoid the hijack of its own vintage variety of rice, basmati, by private companies, India is attempting to obtain geographical indication (GI) protection for basmati. GI status would identify it globally as unique for qualities exclusivel ..
The fourth Stakeholders Meeting on Manual of Practices & Procedures of Patent Office will be held in Kolkata on 13th October, 2008 . The time schedule and venue of the meeting will be informed shortly. Those who are interested to attend this meeting, ..