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…
This article will clarify why most of the Indian market is flooded with Chinese lights every year. A quick search with word “Diwali” gives far more Chinese patents than (any) Indian patents. 1. CN2775989Y (2004) – Single Diwali Electric The…
Amongst the various technologies that are used to provide data access to the users in communication networks and to aid in communication among the users Google has devised a new method of inputting commands. The method would use hand gestures…
South Africa could not keep up with the treatment for Drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB), which has affected thousands of people in the country. Many of the sufferers would die and the death would be horrible and slow. Not only this,…
In order to bring intellectual property protection at Canada more closely to the level of EU both Canada and European commission agreed on CETA (Comprehensive Economic and trade Agreement). CETA is a proposed free trade and copyright agreement between Canada…
Fire in the Blood, is a documentary on “medicine, monopoly and malice.” It tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after…
Earlier completing foreign exchange payments was very time consuming in Chinese banks as a part of intellectual agreement or technology because it required many registrations with Local Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Patent office or trademark office. This either delayed…
CDI (Cellular Dynamics International), a leader in developing induced pluripotent stem cell technologies for in vitro drug development, in vivo cellular therapeutic research and stem cell banking was granted patent no. US8557580 on October 15, 2013 entitled “Methods and Compositions…
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh, California has agreed to US Magistrate Paul S. Grewal’s judgement that stated that Samsung would be required to produce the details about the extent to which it violated the Apple’s patent that would include…
Intellectual Property Office at New Zealand (IPONZ) rejected Henry Soo Lee’s application that attempted to trademark labels related to six anti-bacterial properties of Honey. The major reason stated for this rejection was that this could mislead consumers and had a…
It is very common in today’s time to notice trade dress infringement and law suits related to trademark between name brands. One such issue that caught media’s attention recently was the lawsuit by Audemars Piguet (a high end watch brand)…
Apple filed another patent for the mechanism that would aid in easy ejection of SIM from the phone. Apple Inc. has devised a new ejector mechanism for mobile phones where a magnet in the module would attract a magnet present…
Research by MIT and Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has suggested that the number of patents issued for renewable energy technologies has significantly increased on last 10 years. In a keyword based searching done on patents from 100 countries published/ granted…
Indian pharmaceutical companies have increased their expenditure in their research and development section by 19.7%. The purpose of this increment is not to discover new drugs but to create more cost effective generic drugs. More investment may make them a…
Conflicts between the innovators and generic companies have increased to a great extent and the latest example of the same is the one between Novartis and Merck-Glenmark. These conflicts came into picture when Mylan filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application…
Brief summary of the report on “Intellectual property rights intensive industries: contribution to economic performance and employment in the European Union” published September 2013 by Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). On 30th September European commission has published first…
There are many types of screen lock options such as passwords, pattern unlock, pins or face resemblance available in the phones to prevent everybody’s access to the phone but it becomes difficult when we want to access our device in…
Major aim of MSDx, Inc. is to commercialize In vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and Research Use Only (RUO) blood test products used in checking autoimmune and neurological disorders. The company was recently granted patent by United States Patent and Trademark Office…
On June 13, 2013 Supreme Court of US ordered that naturally occurring genes and the information encoded by them will not be patented, though artificially synthesized ones can be. The issue came to picture when patent was filed by Myriad…
No. 1. Witch-Faced Playground Climber and Slide – USD213505 – Patented March 11, 1969 No. 2. Amusement device with flexible rubberized pop up figure – US6592426B2 – Patented July 15, 2003 No. 3. Method of Preserving the Dead – US748284…