In a significant verdict affecting personality rights, the Ecuadorian Institute for Intellectual Property (Trademark Registry) vide its judgment/resolution dated 06.06.2013 while accepting the opposition filed by Mr. Lalit Bhasin, a leading lawyer in India has rejected the registration of the ARROZ GANDHI mark applied for by one Ana Valverde Munoz of Ecuador. In this case, Mr. Bhasin on receiving…
Every day, 3,000 newborn babies die from birth asphyxia along with 1,000 birthing mothers. The enormity of this is stressed by the fact that it is included in no less than two of the…
The Offices under the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM), India have registered an upward trend in filing of intellectual property applications. Consequently, the Office has received a total of 1,94,216 applications from industries for registering their trademarks in the last fiscal and it is growing at 12% annually. The Indian Intellectual Property Office also…
Acclaimed writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar’s three-year long battle to secure copyright benefits for writers and musicians in the country, has now gone global. In what must be regarded as a singular honour for an Indian artist, he has been appointed the vice president of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Society (CISAC). CISAC, a foreign body, monitors, guards and checks…
Sumit Dagar, an Indian innovator, has developed a unique smart phone that can aid the visually impaired to utilize other mobile functions apart from answering calls. The Braille Smartphone works through what is called Shape Memory Alloy Technology which is based on the fact that certain metal alloys “remember” their original shape configuration after they have expanded or contracted….
Cadbury has fought off Nestlé over exclusive rights for the distinctive purple colour it has used on chocolate wrappers for more than 100 years. The Cadbury brothers are thought to have picked the colour as a tribute to Queen Victoria. The group, which has been locked in a legal battle with its rival for three years, was granted a…
The provision of safe drinking water has been one of the developing world’s most fundamental challenges. This challenge is made even more difficult and pressing by natural disasters such as the 2004 Asian tsunami. With disease spreading during the post-tsunami period, survivors desperately needed access to safe drinking water. In some ravaged communities in Sri Lanka and the Southern…
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