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Continue reading →: “Hot tubbing” for expert witness by the DHC
The Delhi High Court (DHC) in the Micromax Vs. Ericsson case, based on the suggestions exchanged by the parties and considering the procedure adopted by the Federal Courts in Australia and in the United Kingdom, would be adopting the “hot tubbing” procedure to facilitate appreciation of expert technical evidence, in a shortened procedure. The…
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Continue reading →: Mobile App for intellectual property rights
Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks has launched the official Mobile APP for intellectual property rights. The application can be downloaded from Intellectual Property India website, www.ipindia.nic.in or from Google playstore. The application is an information dissemination tool of the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs &…
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Continue reading →: Justice Manmohan Singh appointed as the Chairperson of the IPAB
Retired Delhi High Court judge, Justice Manmohan Singh has been appointed as the Chairperson of the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY APPELLATE BOARD (IPAB) with effect from 1st of January 2018.
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Continue reading →: Ericsson files 5G Foundation patent application
Ericsson has filed its 5G Foundation patent application with WIPO (worldwide) and USPTO (US). As per Ericsson’s website “The patent application, which combines the work of 130 Ericsson inventors, is the largest in cellular communications in terms of number of inventors, anywhere in the world. It shows the industry how…
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Continue reading →: IPR Exchange
The federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (FISME), with support of the prosperity fund through British High Commission in India, have established and IPR Exchange , an online platform for commercial exchange of Intellectual property rights (IPR) (http://www.iprexchange.in/index.php). It is a platform for buying, selling & licensing IPRs.…
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Continue reading →: Initiatives by the CGPDTM office
The Controller General of Patents Design and Trademarks (CGPDTM) office is taking various measures to make the system of the patent office more user friendly and transparent. Two steps taken in this regards are : SMS alert facility for patent applications has been operationalized – The CGPDTM has started the…
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Continue reading →: WIPO AND IPO Collaborate
Controller General of Patent Design and Trademark and Director General of World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) have signed Cooperation agreement on 5th October 2017 at Geneva Switzerland to facilitate the exchange of data between these offices including Indian Patent documents , search and examination reports through WIPO CASE and WIPO Digital Access…
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Continue reading →: Constitution of confidentiality club for Telecom Patent dispute resolution
The Delhi High Court in a recent decision has allowed an application of the plaintiff, Ericsson to constitute a Confidentiality club (See decision here- )Ericsson v Xiaomi- Confidentiality Club Order (2). Ericsson had filed a suit for permanent injunction against the defendants, XIAOMI seeking a restrain from violation and infringement of…
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Continue reading →: Madras HC decision in a patent matter
The Madras High court recently dismissed a petition in Mannivanan v. IPAB & Ors. The petitioner in this case, K. Manivannan is a manufacturer of a machine that is used to thresh paddy. Respondent, M. Mani had filed an infringement suit against the petitioners. Countering this, the petitioners filed for…
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