Representatives of Apple appeared in a Shanghai court on Tuesday to respond to the case filed by Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co, the developer of a voice technology called Xiao i Robot.
Google received 26,087 complaints from users and removed 61,114 pieces of content based on those complaints in November, the tech giant said in its monthly transparency report.
Industry fears tougher US stance on IP after President Donald Trump asserted that foreign countries must pay a fair share for drug development costs. Aneesh Phadnis reports.
Mumbai-based Indian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ISMC) and Singapore-headquartered IGSS Ventures have one strategy in common: They have told the government in their application for semiconductor fabrication plants that they will export the bulk of the chips they make in India in the initial five or 10 years. The third applicant, Vedanta-Foxconn, which is also building a fab plant, has said it will concentrate on the needs of consumer electronics and mobile device markets, and earmark 80 per cent of output for domestic consumption, but has not specified its customers. Finding a viable domestic market could well be the biggest challenge for India's renewed tryst with semiconductors. Fab plants do not sell directly to end users but to intermediary chip design companies - such as Qualcomm or MediaTek.
The five-nation grouping BRICS on Tuesday resolved to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including the cross-border movement of terrorists, and vowed to step up joint efforts in building support for an India-backed global framework to effectively deal with the menace.
The new centre is designed to complement the mediation work carried out by WIPO's Geneva office, which was set up in 1994 and has handled a caseload of over 30,000 disputes since then with the amounts in dispute ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.
The data for 2009 reveals that Indian firms and scientists filed one-tenth of patent applications filed by their Chinese counterparts during the same period.
In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 3,84,509 pieces of content in October as a result of automated detection.
Bolton said that the arguments for China joining the World Trade Organisation was that it would become a more market-oriented rules-based society.
India has become the third most innovative lower middle-income economy in the world.
India is not so keen to co-operate with the US on IPR related probe.
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.
The USTR has placed India on its "priority watch" list for two years in a row, saying the country's patent laws unfairly favour local drug makers.
The manufacturing capacity for the influenza vaccines is inadequate for a world of 6.8 billion people, nearly all of whom are susceptible to infection by the new H1N1 virus, a top official of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
Rising awareness and growing competition in the corporate world is expected to boost the requirement of Intellectual Property professionals in the country, with up to 25,000 jobs likely to be created for them in the next 2-3 years, experts say.
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the nodal department that handles intellectual property rights (IPR) related matters under the commerce ministry, is launching an ambitious Rs 300-crore (Rs 3 billion) project to sensitise all stakeholders, including law enforcement agencies, scientists, companies, ministries and the general public on IPR issues.
India has a huge trade surplus with US - over $20 billion a year in the past five years.
'The vaccine policy should be such that all people should get the vaccine free.'
A Green Card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is a document issued to immigrants as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the US.
Failure to recognise the threat of India's IP abuse is a major step back: Congressman Orrin Hatch.
What we need is some informed debate on what is India's best interest at this particular stage instead of going for a wholesale import of an American system that could prove ineffectual.
The NMIMS School of Law's Institute of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai, introduces a one-year postgraduate diploma course and a four-month weekend certificate course in intellectual property laws.
Narendra Modi might on Saturday ask the Apple CEO to make in India instead of importing and selling refurbished phones
'Unless India ups the ante, Beijing will continue to believe its transgressions are cost free and will feel encouraged to do more of the same.'
As a result, necessary IP rights are not effectively transferred, the "best price" for IP is rarely achieved, and the process itself inhibits the market adoption of new technology based products and hence their companies' economic growth.
'Which will not happen.' 'Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has expressly refuted Beijing's statement that normalcy was returning to Sino-Indian relations.'
: Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal's Institute of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai, invites applications for its one year Post-graduate Diploma in Patent Law and Practice and a four-month Certificate Course in Intellectual Property.
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.
'We have often heard the mythical argument that patents block access to life-saving drugs, but only 5% of medicines from multinational companies are under patent protection in India.' 'Where these patented products are beyond the reach of Indian patients, the companies have programmes to facilitate access to their drugs, for free or for a fraction of the price,' points out Ranjana Smetacek, former director general, Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India.
'Both the Centre and the states cannot say that they have been taking good care of public health.'
Industry leaders are predicting hybrid cloud to be the next biggest trend in cloud computing.
The 'Make in India' vision cannot survive in the long-term without concrete measures to build a concurrent 'Create in India' movement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for following a 'one earth, one health' approach to effectively deal with the coronavirus pandemic globally, and sought the support of the G7 grouping to lift patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, during a virtual address at an outreach session of a summit of the bloc.
China has been an aggressor against India along the Himalayan border, a top American diplomat nominated by President Joe Biden as his next envoy to Beijing has told lawmakers, stating that the US must hold the Chinese government accountable for failing to play by the rules.
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.
Asserting that India was on the 'threshold of a new era' in the textiles sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday cautioned that the country must take steps to protect the intellectual property of its weavers, artisans and designers.
India rejects patent on Pfizer's arthritis drug
Terming intellectual property as the foundation of a knowledge-based economy, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Monday asserted that it was time to transit from a IP user to IP producer to turn the country into a superpower.
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