'India is often skipping legacy cycles and moving directly to advanced AI-driven operations.'
Reliance Industries Ltd has withdrawn its trademark application for the term 'Operation Sindoor' -- the codename for India's military strikes in Pakistan -- stating that it was inadvertently filed by a junior employee without authorisation.
India granted 1.03 lakh patents in financial year 2023-24, Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks Unnat Pandit said on Thursday, as he assured that there will be "no delay" in the Intellectual Property Office as it prioritises timely clearance of applications. Addressing an Assocham event here, he shared that 40 per cent of the applications were disposed of within 30 months of the request for examination. "We are going to have no delay in the IP office, that's the motive with which we have .. that IP should be granted and under Chapter 8 of the Act it should also be utilised by the applicant ... that will generate the economic value of IP," Pandit said.
The Indian Army on Thursday said it has registered the intellectual property rights of its new design and camouflage pattern uniform.
Indian companies need not just make in India, but invent in India too
According to a recent journal published by the controller general of patents designs and trade marks, Canada-based Research In Motion, who manufacture the popular Blackberry smartphones, has sought a patent for wireless systems providing a mechanism for resource sharing. After getting a patent in India, RIM would have exclusive right over the invention in the country.
Ford had registered the name 'Splash' with the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks Registry on August 16, 2002.
Over 70,000 patent applications are in the pipeline for examination and may need at least 3-4 years for approval under the Intellectual Property Rights Act due to shortage of examiners, a senior government official said.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd, which is engaged in the textile business apart from petroleum, has approached the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks for a process patent to make thermoplastic polyester. RIL filed an application in this regard in March this year and the approving authorities have published the claims made by the company in their latest Patent Office Journal, giving public notice.
The domestic pharmaceutical industry and non-government organisations are up in arms against the first ever Indo-US tie-up on intellectual property rights
It started commercial operations as a full service carrier on January 9.
For a product initially positioned as a "closet mate" which could help improve a woman's marital prospects, HUL Chairman Sanjiv Mehta says the communication now is all about women's empowerment.
Patent filings in India would be more and more driven by new technologies, which are either kept secret or patented.
The rules, the first ever for software applications in the country, were recently issued by the patent office and mandate each new software to be 'machine-specific' and packaged with 'new hardware' to qualify for a licence.
The petition will come up for hearing on Tuesday.
Both firms have made several applications for patents pertaining to digital payments in the country
Indian cos or academic institutions accounted for only 1,394 patent cooperation treaty applications
Special 301 Report expresses concern over weak IPR laws, to conduct reviews.
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