Pharmaceutical company, Lupin has sold certain patent applications and other related intellectual property for Perindopril (hypertension drug) for multiple countries to French firm Laboratories Servier for Rs 115.31 crore (Euro 20 million).
In 2013, Chinese counterfeit and pirated goods seized in the US accounted for a total value of $1.1 billion, representing 68 per cent of all such goods seizures by the Customs and Border Protection, the US Department of Homeland Security said on Monday in its annual report.
Sources said the people would be hired at different levels, including application examiners.
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.
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.
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.
Indian has been ranked top globally for enforcing intellectual property laws, ahead of some of the most advanced nations, like the United States and the United Kingdom, a survey says.
French dairy major Groupe Danone and Mumbai-based Wadia Group on Tuesday gave the finishing touches to a pact to end their 13-year-old joint venture for running Britannia Industries, India's largest food products firm. With it, they buried their bitter intellectual property disputer over the Tiger brand.
Chinese company Tencent Games on Friday said it was terminating all services and access for PUBG Mobile users in India to comply with the government's order of last month.
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.
On the Sensex chart, Bajaj Auto, HDFC, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and ICICI bank emerged as the prominent gainers. NSE Nifty ended with a gain of 106.95 points at 14,724.80.
Perfetti has won the suit against Candico that was filed 9 years ago over the latter's trademark.
New Delhi-based e-learning company Educomp Solutions has worked on a novel business model under which it will invest over Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) to "enable" setting up around 150 schools over the next four years.Under this model, Educomp will earn its return on investment by providing intellectual property (IP) for the schools through its Educomp School Management programme and leasing infrastructure through its subsidiary Educomp Infrastructure.
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.
The unilateral pressure by US administration on India, at the behest of US Business Associations lobby through US International Trade Commission investigations and request to USTR to enlist India under Priority Foreign Country under Special 301 review, lacks legitimacy under WTO framework, the signatories to the letter said.
Britannia executives were, however, non-committal on whether the company had initiated discussions to return the Little Hearts trademark and the right to use the product recipe back to Groupe Danone.
Patni Computer Systems Ltd said on Monday it has acquired ZAiQ Technologies, a small ASIC design company, in Woburn, Massachusetts, by an asset purchase transaction for $425,000.
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.
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.
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.
Infringements related to brand names and trademarks are a never-ending story. In the latest dispute over a brand name, the Tata Group has objected to the word 'Tata' used in oktatabyebye.com, a travel community site owned by MakeMyTrip.
The denial of patent to Glivec was the first case of a multinational being denied patent protection for a drug that enjoys monopoly marketing rights in about 40 countries.
"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.
Ahead of his India visit on February 24-25, Trump said that India has not treated his country 'very well' on the trade front and indicated that a 'very big' bilateral deal with New Delhi may not be signed before the American presidential election in November.
Gurgaon-based mmt admin (commonly known as MakeMyTrip) has been using the domain name 'oktatabyebye.com'. Tata Sons has contended that it is confusingly similar to its 'Tata' brand and the travel portal runner has no rights or legitimate interests to use it. In May, Tata Sons had moved the Geneva-based WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center demanding transfer of disputed domain name.
Even as conflicts between rival brands increase in India, industry experts find the trend encouraging.
In the era of technology-driven crime, when stolen money and intellectual property can be digitally transmitted in seconds, corporates are often handicapped while investigating frauds that occur in other countries, says a survey.
The suit filed in federal court in New York City, which also names RJ Softwares, the Kolkata-based company owned by Rajat Agarwalla, 27, and Jayant Agarwalla, 22, seeks unspecified damages and a court order barring them from using the name 'Scrabulous' to refer to their game.
The government has notified new rules to enforce Intellectual Property Rights at the imports stage. The notifications prohibiting import or export of goods that infringe on IPR have also been issued.
Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's Institute of Intellectual Property Studies in association with Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies invites applications for its one year Post Graduate Diploma in Patent Law and Practice.
It stands for technology that helps an organisation to place its applications and data on the Internet.
Novartis's famed cancer drug, Glivec, will not get patent protection in India. The apex body on patent and trademark disputes, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), has ruled that the drug "lacks innovation" and the high price tag of Rs 120,000 per month per patient would be too high for the common man.
Accounting firm, Ernst and Young auditing the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation has cleared it of allegations of corruption.
The jailed gangster had on Thursday moved the court against the web series, saying that the 'use or misuse of the attributes of his personality' without his prior consent amounted to infringement of his 'personality rights' as well as defamation.
India, Russia to sign military IPR agreement in December
The National Law School of India University, Bangalore, a premier Law University in India, invites application for admission for its Distance Education Programme on law for the Academic year 2008-09.
No one seems to be able to agree on what the correct degree of capital mobility in developing countries is.
