In the quest for 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', Indian Army has developed and launched a secure messaging application named the 'Secure Application for the Internet (SAI)' that supports an end-to-end secure voice, text and video calling services for Android platform over internet, the Ministry of Defence said in New Delhi on Thursday.
The Uttar Pradesh Export Corporation Limited (UPECL), a state government undertaking engaged in the development and marketing of handicrafts and handloom items produced in Uttar Pradesh, is set to apply for patenting of Lucknow chikan. Once the office of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) gives its certificate, chikan would exclusively be linked with Lucknow city.
The government is planning to approach the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization against frequent seizure of Indian medicines at various European ports.
This was announced at the Indo-US Economic Cooperation conference held on Friday.
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.
The IPR committee of the Britannia board was created in May 2006 to deal with all IPR matters. For the last one year, the committee has been working to resolve the issue of the use and registration of Tiger by Groupe Danone in several countries.
AvestaBiotherapeutic and Research (ABRPL) has signed a pact with Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation to develop biosimilar (similar biological products) products.
The minister further said running the operations of the company and inquiry against people involved in the accounting fraud are two different things and should be viewed separately separately. The new board of Satyam met twice and appointed global accountancy firms KPMG and Deloitte to re-state the accounts of the IT company.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has sought level playing field for American companies in China.
US-based pharma giants Eli Lilly and company has filed a case against two Indian drug makers, Aurobindo Pharma and Lupin alleging infringement of patent of its anti-depressant drug Cymbalta.
Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with India have set off global protests
Delegation to insist on flexibility in aiding low-cost access to HIV treatment.
The US will also try to persuade Beijing to make it easier for foreigners to make portfolio investments in China.
The top Obama Administration official said the US will negotiate agreements that commit its trading partners to protecting American intellectual property, such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited, signed a licensing and advanced development deal to jointly develop an advanced mobile and remote workforce management system.
Launched in July 2006 by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers in their 20s from Calcutta, Scrabulous has become one of the most popular games played by Facebook members and boasts nearly 600,000 daily active users.
The idea is to incorporate global best practices in the Indian context.
The change of mind among Indian experts is based on a recent decision of the UK high court.
The intellectual property rights battle between Britannia Industries and French dairy and beverages giant, Groupe Danone, is heading for an early breakthrough.
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis is buoyant about growth prospects and further protection of intellectual property rights in India, despite the setback it suffered in the patent dispute for its cancer drug Glivec last year.
An Indian pharmaceutical company is gearing up to sell a cheap version of the leading patented antiviral flu drug Tamiflu to emerging economies, in a move that will pitch intellectual property rights against affordable access to medicines.
The PhRMA's observation is significant against the backdrop of Swiss pharma major Novartis AG's decision to relocate its R&D investments from India.
The United States wants India to do more in developing a world-class infrastructure, energy security, creation of true national markets and protection of intellectual property rights to attract American investments.
Even as conflicts between rival brands increase in India, industry experts find the trend encouraging.
A full bench of the Central Information Commission will decide the tricky issue of whether the design of the pillar collapsed last year can be made public under the RTI Act or the IPR over the same allow DMRC to withhold it.
"More than 1.7 billion people in India and Africa do not have access to essential drugs... across the world, about 14 million people die due to infectious diseases and 10 million children die due to vaccine preventable diseases," K Satyanarayana, head of the Intellectual Property Rights Unit, Indian Council of Medical Research told PTI. The pharma industry, he said, should play vital role in making healthcare affordable.
A model train, on show at the Sixth Shanghai International Industry Fair, attracted many professional visitors.
The United States has decided to appoint a treasury attache and an attache for intellectual property rights in India. The US will also appoint a special official to deal with the aviation sector.
India has strong legislation on Intellectual Property Rights but the country still lacks adequate enforcement measures to check leakages such as piracy, a Microsoft official has said.
India, with its strong research and development base in life sciences, IT and pharma industries, is on the threshold of a revolution in biotechnology, scientists at the BioAsia 2004 Summit said in Hyderabad on Thursday.
The breakthrough for Scrabulous came when it appeared on the social networking site. Now it claims more than 600,000 daily users, making it one of Facebook's most popular applications.
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