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Bangalore Municipal Corporation Innovates cost effective urban road solutions

Bangalore City Municipal Corporation (BCC) is enthusiatic for its technical innovation in road construction technology, specifically used for development of underpass, surface pass and overpass. It is planning to secure patent protection for the same. It is going to file … Continue reading

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Indian Motorbike Major fights over Engine Patent

Yet to be launch motorbike sparked patent row among the two major Indian players. Bajaj auto’s “XCD” pronounced as Ex-cee-d’ has locked horns with another TVS’s “‘s “Flame” on the patent of engine technology. Both the bikes would be competing … Continue reading

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Novartis's challenge on validity of Indian patent laws was put down by Indian High Court

Swiss pharma giant, Novartis, faced another blow in India, when Chennai High Court rejected its writ petition challenging the validity of Indian Patent Laws. Novartis had sought to declare Section 3 (d) of the Indian Patents Act as substituted by Patents … Continue reading

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Defending a patent infringement in court – take recourse of Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents

Doctrine of Equivalents was set forth by US Supreme Court in 1950 to extent the protection of patent rights to a good patent holders beyond the literal meaning of the claims i.e. literal infringement. US Supreme Court also established Function-Way-Result … Continue reading

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Indian firms and brazilian AIDS patients to be benefit from compulsory licensing

The Brazilian government’s decision to override the patent rights of Merck’s HIV/AIDS drug Stocrin (efavirenz) and buy reverse engineered generic versions of the drug at low cost has come as a boon for Indian pharmaceutical companies manufacturing generic versions of … Continue reading

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Is infringment of patent in abroad liable to claim damages in the country…. ?

This is the question .. going to be decided by US SC in july 2007, while hearing Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., 05-1056 case. In a long-running case between Microsoft and AT&T, AT&T had been able to secure favorable judgments … Continue reading

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The secret to successful use of technology in a corporate setting

The secret to successful use of technology in a corporate setting By Ernest Svenson on Legal Tech It’s sad how much money is wasted on technology. If you need transportation and you buy a car then you aren’t wasting money. … Continue reading

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IP Due Diligence – put simply (with the 6 T’s)

Duncan Bucknell  talks about the  ‘6T’ framework for analysing IP issues.  This article uses the same framework to show you how to simply structure an IP due diligence.  Just to remind you, here are the 6 T’s: 1 ­- Type … Continue reading

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Steady Flow Of Patent Application In India

An Indian Law firm Lex Orbis analyzies the trend in patent application in India. The revival of the Indian economy and globalization of markets have thrown open new opportunities in the field of foreign investments and a strong patent regime … Continue reading

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WIPO Report on Worldwide Patenting

  A report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Monday, October 16, 2006, shows that the patent system is an integral part of increasing global economic activity, with the increase in patent filings closely mirroring economic growth … Continue reading

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