Ranbaxy at back foot: Punjab’s plant (4th in India) banned by FDA

Ranbaxy Laboratories which is one of the largest and reputed companies of India, exports its drugs throughout the world. U.S. is the main consumer of generic drugs made at Ranbaxy but due to one defect found in the drugs of…

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Patent on ICE COLD-PCR to Transgenomic, Inc.

Transgenomic, Inc. is a global biotechnology company advancing personalized medicine in cardiology, oncology, and inherited diseases. It deals with patient testing, biomarker identification, and genetic assays through clinical trials on patients. Transgenomic Company recently got a patent of ICE COLD-PCR…

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Apple’s Patent on Interactive Map may turn to New App

Apple would soon be overcoming its last year’s shortcoming for Maps app for which the company was drubbed. The company’s new patent application (US20130339891A1) got published on December 19, 2013 for more advanced map application named “Interactive Map” at US…

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20 Awesome Patents on Christmas Accessories and Gifts

1. CN203302834U 2013-11-27 Solar Christmas tree 2. CN203222175U 2013-10-02 A Christmas plastic gift parcel 3. CN203153361U 2013-08-28 Christmas ball pendant serving as Christmas tree ornament 4. CN203000480U 2013-06-19 Eight-angle star pendant for Christmas trees 5. US20130021788A1 2013-01-24 Personal Energy Christmas…

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Samsung Smartphones with Comfort Zone on Screen: New Patent Reveals

With the increasing size of smart phones, the phone becomes difficult to handle in hand range. ‘Tiny screen mode’ is the option already provided by Samsung in Galaxy note 3 but the company is looking for more that is to…

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China’s New trademark Law from May 1, 2014

China would enforce new trademark law on May 1, 2014 that would aim to streamline and modernize the process. Not only this, law also ensures minimization of counterfeiting and squatting by the perpetrators. The new law would bring changes in…

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Law Suit by Invitae against Myriad regarding BRCA1/2 & MUTYH gene patent infringement

A case had been filed on Myriad Genetics by the Invitae Corporation in U.S. district court. The case demands a formal announcement from Myriad Genetics and withdrawal of all the charges on Invitae, as in an earlier case filed by…

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Public Trading Companies become Patent Collectors to make Dollars

Spherix Inc. a publicly trading company had put its hands into many fields like developing treatment for diabetes, marketing low calorie sweetener, handling a campground reservations and the latest one is patents. Spherix two months ago merged with North South…

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Efavirenz (HIV Drug) case: Bristol (BMS) won over Mylan Pharma

Bristol Meyers Squibb (BMS), manufacturers of Efavirenz (patented drug for HIV) won over the companies named Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Mylan Laboratories Ltd. that made generic version of Efavirenz that is Sustiva. The companies filed an application in court for…

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Dedicated IP Courts to Improve China’s IP Image Worldwide

A new court would be set up to take care of IP matters in China. In order to make IP application and protection more efficient the proposal was given as a part of policy reform plan that was outlined by…

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BYD awarded China’s Emerging Leader in Innovations by WIPO-SIPO

BYD company Ltd, specialist in Battery technology in China was awarded 2013 WIPO-SIPO “Outstanding Patent Innovation and Industrial Design” medal. The company is also recognized as the most innovative company of China. BYD also received Award of Excellence from China’s…

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Patent on System and Method for Social Recruiting Granted

Beyond.com, which is the Career Network site which helps people in their professional growth and success has bagged a major achievement with the grant of a patent on the invention of a newer technology which would enable the process of…

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Race of Trademark Holi among European Union Organisations

There is a surprising newer type of race among the various organizations of the European Union. This race is to trademark the Hindu festival Holi which is popularly known as the festival of color. Hindus have, however strongly opposed this…

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Pharmaceutical Companies shift from Small Molecule Drugs to Biotech Drugs

Recently, the Tufts University’s Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) released an interesting report revealing the dramatic shift of pharmaceutical companies from manufacturing small molecule drugs to a large number of biotechnology drugs. The report shows that in…

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Patent Litigation Integrity Act (S. 1612) introduced by Senator Hatch

US Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced the Patent Litigation Integrity Act (S. 1612). The Act aims to address the growing threat of patent trolls who purchase existing broad patents and then threaten businesses of infringing them. Patent litigation Integrity Act…

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LG’s (G Flex) and Samsung’s (Galaxy Round) Curved Screen Mobile Phones

A new breakthrough in smartphone would be curved screen phones that two technology giants Samsung and LG released within weeks of one another. The technology of bendable screen would make gadgets more flexible to use as now they could be…

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LG and HTC enter Race to Make “Smartest” Smart Watch after Sony and Samsung

LG filed a patent for its new product G Health with USPTO, US. Much information related to the details of the product has not yet disclosed but according to description given under Goods and Services is mentioned, device would be…

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ViaCyte: Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy Derived from Stem Cells

ViaCyte Inc. is emerging as a leader in regenerative medicine and is all set to develop a new approach for the treatment of major diseases using cell therapy derived from stem cells. The company was granted 28 patents in 2011-2013…

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Important Drug Patents to Expire in 2014 for Generic Production

Year 2014 would be a big loss year for the Pharma companies because of the expiry of patents granted for some of the major medicines. It is estimated that due to the loss of IP protection, sales worth $34 billion…

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10 Patents on Well Known Firecrackers and Fireworks

1. CN2203772Y (1995) – Sound fireworks with whistle sound 2. CN2089609U (1991) – Rocket type two sound firecracker 3. US4779534A (1987) – Rocket firecrackers giving out smoke before flying up 4. CN2110849U (1991) – SEAT TYPE CONIC FIREWORKS AND FIRECRACKERS…

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