'Our problem is not a budget deficit but a trust deficit. We need to trust our institutions and industries to innovate and lead. That is the way forward for India.'
The WIPO Copyrights Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, collectively termed as Internet Treaties, were negotiated in 1996 under the auspices of WIPO. But India is yet to sign them.With Internet, web piracy is also fast gaining grounds in the world.
Accounting firm, Ernst and Young auditing the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation has cleared it of allegations of corruption.
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry has partnered with the World Intellectual Property Organisation to launch an anti-piracy and counterfeit campaign next month.
The World Intellectual Property Organistion (Wipo)'s Worldwide Academy on Saturday urged the Indian industries to invest heavily in human resource development in the field of intellectual property.
At the 18th session of the Standing Committee on Copyrights, to be held by World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva later this month, these countries will pitch for giving exceptions to certain professionals in accessing the data from the Internet and digital world.
India has become the third most innovative lower middle-income economy in the world.
India was the second largest filer of international trademark applications among the BRICS nations in 2014.
The government, in collaboration with the UN-body World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has commissioned a study to ascertain whether India's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are prepared to adopt the global IPR regime.
The international trademark registration touched the one-million mark this month, more than a century after the first trademark was registered by a Swiss chocolate maker.
According to the information available with the WIPO, Geneva-based WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has ordered the transfer of domain name to the US-based search giant after Herit Shah of Gujarat offered to surrender the disputed name to Google. Google had challenged the registering of domain name 'googblog.com' by Shah at WIPO stating that it was confusingly similar to its trademark on which the company has rights.
Japan granted the maximum number of patents in 2007 and has replaced the United States from number one position, a status it was enjoying for nearly a decade, a UN agency report says.
GII measures national innovation performance based on a set of variables to both innovation input and output.
The Global Innovation Index published by INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), ranks 141 countries on the basis of their innovation capabilities.
An online community platform designed for the 'print-impaired', probably the first such in the country, seeks to make the Internet accessible to people with different needs.
India ranks among the top 50 economies overall in two pillars: market sophistication, 33, and knowledge and technology out-puts, 43
India would join the World Intellectual Property Organization's Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks this year.
The Canadian phone maker had challenged the registration of three domain names -- blackbberry.com, blckberry.com, and blackberry.com -- by the MumbaiDomains, a Mumbai-based firm, at the WIPO, stating they were similar to its trademark Blackberry, and could be confused with it. The Geneva-based WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has ordered the transfer of all three domain names used by Mumbai-based firm to Research In Motion.
India has performed poorly in international patent filings last year compared to its neighbour China, according to data released by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Travel portal MakeMyTrip has moved the Delhi High Court challenging a recent ruling by global intellectual property regulator WIPO that directed it to handover domain name oktatabyebye.com to Tata Sons.
The WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Centre transferred the domain name 'Rediffmobile.com' registered by a nondescript Vancouver company to Rediff.com India Ltd. The panel which went into the complaints of rediff.com held that the Canadian company has 'no rights or legitimate interests' in the domain name in dispute which was used in 'bad faith' by its owner to associate itself with the online Indian company.
Multinational organizations including PepsiCo and industry associations like IPA, have come in favour of India's intellectual property regime, which is being reviewed by the US administration.
Francis Gurry is expected to be the new head of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Gurry, who is now a deputy director-general at WIPO from Australia, is understood to have won a nail-biting election on Tuesday to replace the agency's controversial head, Kamil Idris.
Intellectual property rights must be backed by a strong enforcement mechanism that will effectively curb counterfeiting and piracy, an official of the World Intellectual Property Organisation said in New Delhi on Thursday.
Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho of FC Barcelona won a cybersquatting case against a U.S. web site operator in a ruling by an international arbitrator on Thursday.
The Brazilian won exclusive rights to the domain name ronaldinho.com on the worldwide Web
India needs to build its Grand Narrative, and its cultural power, which conquered all of ASEAN (then known as Indo-China), needs to be forcefully projected while simultaneously hard economic and military power are also emphasised, says Rajeev Srinivasan.
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