Daniel Gurney has done it again. The former racing car driver who has won at Sports car, Formula one, NASCAR and Indy car is also a car manufacturer and team owner. He was the one who started the tradition of spraying champagne while celebrating at the podium and also who placed a simple right angle...

In one of the most high profile celebrity cases filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and his production house have been fined a sum of INR 10 lakhs for remaking the blockbuster “SHOLAY” thus mounting to copyright violation.

The Indian Patent Office has invited applications for the Trade Marks Agent Examination 2015 to be held shortly. The last date for receipt of the applications is 7th Sep 2015. After scrutiny of the applications, the IPO would post the list of eligible candidates and the date of the written exam and interview on or...

The Controller General has issued an order affirming that for examination of patent applications relating to the field of computer related inventions (CRIs), under Section 3(k) of the Patents Act, the provisions of Guidelines for examination of CRIs are applicable with immediate effect.

The Indian Patent Office has recently issued a clarification on the Designs Act, 2000. The circular states that for registration of designs, one application would suffice for any one or all of the articles that are categorised under the same class, irrespective of the sub classes. For more information, please check out the circular in...

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued to the Company patent 9,096,827 titled “Adherent Cells From Placenta Tissue and Use Thereof in Therapy”. The patent protects specific methods of culturing placental adherent stromal cells, and use of these cells for...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently granted US Patent No. 9080184 entitled “Transgenic Therapeutic Stem Cells and Methods for Their Use and Manufacture” to Stemedica Cell Technologies Inc. This patent contains extra amount of human granulyotic colony thus offering neuroprotection as well as neurogenesis.

The company claims that the claimed water soluble fertilizer which being a clean technology addresses the concerns about the toxicity, safety and the environment issues facing the world and thus is a decent replacement to the synthetic fertilizers.

The FDA has approved the world’s first 3D printed drug for the treatment of epilepsy. The new drug, Spritam, was developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals to control seizures brought on by epilepsy. The 3D technology allows Spritam (levetiracetam) to have higher manufacturing precision thus accommodating a higher dose almost upto 1000 mg in each tablet. As...

India successfully protected its traditional knowledge by stalling a leading UK-based laboratory’s move to patent a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss. The UK-based company – Pangaea Laboratories Limited – had filed the patent application in February, 2011. The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) could manage to prove the European Patent Office (EPO) that turmeric, pine bark and green tea have been used since time immemorial as an effective treatment for hair loss in the indigenous systems like Ayurveda and Unani.