Newsletter Archive

In this issue,

RKD NEWS

• Patent Agent Examination Results

National News

• Telco Vs. T. Series
• ITC vs. Godfrey Phillips
• SC Allows cosmetics company to sue Australian Unilever
• Britannia versus Parle
• Tall Claims Brought Down
• RBI Exemption of Govt. Approval for Tech Collaboration Royalty
• Reliance Trade Mark Settlement
• India fights Bio- Piracy at the EPO
• Delhi HC rules in favour of Havells in a Patent Infringement Suit
• Laawaris Song Controversy
• Mahabaleshwar Strawberry gets GI protection
• Patent Office to Hire

International News

• Google Ad Words
• E-bay Auction Patent Granted

In this issue,

Sports & IPR April 2010

Trade Marks

• What’s in a Name? $$
• Not just Sports
• In come the Infringers
• Ambush marketing

Copyrights

• Broadcasting Rights

Patent

• Mongoose Bat and others

STOP PRESS Budget Relief for R & D Disparaging Advertisement

National

• JustDial Vs. Askme.in
• Rejection after Grants
• ITC Vs. Marlboro
• Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008
• Trade Mark Amendment Bill
• HUL signs with Unilever

International

• Microsoft Infringes Font Design in China
• Google Ordered to Pay in France
• Google issues Apology to Chinese Authors
• Italian Court orders imprisonment of Google officials
• Nokia vs. Apple
• Kodak Vs. Apple and RIM
• Kodak Vs. Samsung Settled
• Motorola Vs. RIM
• International Trade Commission
• Wordy Woes

 

"WISH YOU A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND INTELLECTUAL NEW YEAR "

In this issue,

Intellectual Property Cases

1.Indian Cases

• Cipla Vs. Novartis
• Bajaj Vs. TVS
• Banyan Tree Case
• Microsoft ‘Forum Hiring’
• The Parle Dispute
• Google in Trouble in India As Well
• Coke Wins Maaza Row
• Ok Tata Bye Bye Belongs to Tata now
• No Monopoly Over Abbreviation of Drug Name

2. International Cases

• Mahindra Satyam ‘U’ paid
• Microsoft Breathes a Sigh of Relief
• Samsung to pay 400 million $

Changes in the Law

3. National Scenario

• Copyright Act Amendment Proposed
• Information Technology act amendment

4. International Scenario

• U.S to amend patent law
• Chinese Patent Law Amendment
• Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks to Enter into Force in 2009

Appointments

5. National

• New Controller of Patents

6. International

• Indian Appointed as WIPO Chief of Staff

Other News

7. National

• Indian Traditional Knowledge to be accessible to the USPTO
• MOU between USPTO and India on Bilateral Intellectual Property Rights Cooperation
• Banarasi Saris get GI protection

8. International

• Three New Countries join PCT
• More than 600,000 design patents in US

News Flash

• Bombay High Court says No to Foreign Law Firms

In this issue,

Green Intellectual Property

• Give us Aid if you want to inspect Climate Change Measures- says India
• Device that produces water from air
• Plastic is now biodegradable
• Plastic which dissolves in water
• UK Fast Tracking Green Patents
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Designs for the Environment
• Trade Mark Green

  Other developments in the IP world

• Where lies the boundary for Medical Patents
• Facebook Personalized User Names: Threat to Trade Mark Owners
• And in India the TVS vs. Bajaj battle continues to rage
• Feni gets GI