intellectual property rights

A recent judgment of the Madras High Court (Colgate Palmolive v. Anchor, O.A. Nos. 493 and 494 of 2008 in C.S. No. 451 of 2008) appears to have modified the law relating to comparative advertising in cases of commercial disparagement, particularly in relation to ‘puffing’. Puffing is, in general, a superlative claim made about one’s product; and is typically understood as so superlative that..

Bombay High Court refused to grant a stay on the release of Aamir Khan-starrer ‘Ghajini’, scheduled to open in theatres across the country tomorrow. Refusing to grant the stay, sought by KBC Pictures, which is claiming to possess copyright to the story and screenplay of the film, Justice D G Karnik adjourned the next hearing till January 26 and asked both the parties to file affidavits support..

Madras High Court cleared the decks for the release of Hindi version of Amir Khan’s ‘Ghajini’ by quashing the single Judge order staying the film’s release. A Division Bench, comprising Mr Justice V Danabalan and Mr Justice M Sathyanarayanan, passed the above order on the condition that Geetha Arts Division of Allu Entertainment Private Limited, which produced Ghajini in Hindi, deposited Rs fiv..

The Madras High Court has stalled the national and the international release of the Aamir Khan starrer ‘Ghajini’ which was supposed to release on 25 th December. Ghajini being a remake of a Tamil film, the Tamil producers of the film have objected to its release. ‘Ghajini’ is one of the most awaited movies of this year. The movie has Aamir Khan in the lead role and Asin plays his love interest..

CYBER CRIMES RECORD 50 PER CENT JUMP IN INDIA 18 Dec 2008, 1055 hrs IST, IANS NEW DELHI: With India being home to the fourth highest number of internet users in the world, cyber crimes under the the Information Technology (IT) Act recorded a whopping 50 per cent jump in 2007 over the previous year. What's more, the majority of offenders were under 30 years of age. Cyber crimes ..

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 for posting personal and intimate details about an unfaithful husband, his mistress and a spurned wife who committed suicide. W..

"" WEB TERRORISM "" GOOGLE HAUNTED BY WEB ATTACKERS 20 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 websites. Danger in portals | Heard of clickjacking? More Pictures Websense Security Labs has discovered a sponsored malicious link hos..

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 company in June 2007. Valganciclovir is a treatment for cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus that often attacks the retina of people with lower immune system..

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 link http://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 identity by developing it as an organic silk proved successful, Dhirender Kumar, special secretary and director (handicraft, silk and handloom) o..

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 country's legislature, the National People's Congress, was scheduled to discuss a number of proposed laws, including a food safety law, in a mee..

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://indiapatents.blogspot.com/2008/10/csir-plans-to-commercialize-their.html..

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 exclusively attributed to the place of its origin and confer legal protection against unauthorized use of the name by other rice producers. The GI scene keep..

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 building an Innovation support system to encourage Innovation, evolve a National Integrated Science and Technology Plan and codify and consolidate ..

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, may kindly contact Dr. P.C. Chakraborty, Deputy Controller of Patent and Designs, Patent Office, Kolkata for further information. Source : http:..