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NIRF rankings and role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Intellectual property rights (IPR) are intangible assets, which gives an exclusivity or monopoly to the owner for a certain period. Intellectual property rights are Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, Copyrights, Geographical Indications, Plant Varieties, and Trade Secrets.
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Intellectual Property(IP) in the COVID-19 era and beyond
The ongoing global pandemic and its resultant repercussions on economy is unprecedented. Strong economies have strong Intellectual Property (IP) environment. Thus, when the economy suffers, so do its IP environment. The economic implication is across all levels and all sectors of businesses. Hence it goes without saying that innovation is suffering.
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COVID-19 and Contribution of IP
The World Health Organization (WHO) explains COVID-19 (coronavirus) as the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It is popularly referred to as the cousin of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
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IPR Awareness- Patents and Drafting Patent Applications.
We are pleased to share that on 7th March, 2020, Dr. Poornima Chandran our Senior strategic planner- IP Project Management was invited to deliver a guest lecture on “IPR AWARENESS SESSION WITH EMPHASIS ON PATENTS AND DRAFTING PATENT APPLICATIONS” at a two-day National Seminar On Recent Advances in Agriculture and Biomedical Research (RAABR-2020), organized by the Department of Botany and Microbiology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, AP-522510.
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India's Crypto Victory
India’s top court (Hon’ble Supreme Court invalidated an order issued by India’s central bank (The Reserve Bank of India) which had directed the banks to refrain in transactions involving cryptocurrency. The case involved the Internet and mobile association of India as the petitioner and the Reserve Bank of India as the respondent. The petitioners also involved “a few companies which run online crypto assets exchange platforms, the shareholders/founders of these companies and a few individual crypto assets traders” as stated in the 180-page judgment rendered on 04March, 2020.
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Edge Computing and Block Chain: A Symbiotic Relationship
In a world crammed with diverse applications and web services, it is highly essential to optimize their working. Co-ordination of information is highly essential for efficient rendition of services to make the human life easy and stress free According to an analyst firm Gartner: “the usage of Internet of Things (IOT) will surpass the world population in the year 2020 for the first time”! Pertaining to this, it was soon realized that there was a need to deal with collaborative applications requiring minimal latency in processing and a computing methodology.
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Copyright in the age of Artificial Intelligence
On February 5,2020 the Library of Congress, Washington DC organized an event “Copyright in the age of Artificial Intelligence”, co-sponsored by the U.S. Copyright office and The World Intellectual Property Organization. The event started with a keynote addressed on the global perspectives of Copyright and AI by the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry.
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Hard part of Softbank
Successful businesses strive to continuously improve their business strategies: to become more efficient as well as productive, and also change according to the current market. Strategy is considered as a roadmap for the success of a company. It is not necessary that all the strategies planned give fruitful products. Softbank is one such company whose journey and success shall be discussed in this article.
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DC Intellectual Property Forum
The “DC Intellectual Property Forum” at the National Press Club in Washington DC held an event on January 29, 2020, “Uniting Cryptocurrency & Intellectual Property: Delivering the “X” Factor to Industry Hyper-Growth.” Promethus IP was represented by our Head of Operations in USA, Ms.Soujanya Sikha, who interacted extensively with the participants at the event.
Continue readingChina's shifting IP Landscape and its impact on right holders
Off late there has been a lot of attention on the Intellectual property Policy of China. In relation this aseries of round table discussions (AS IN THE TITLE)was held at the USPTO headquarters on the 20th of November, 2019. The participants were from law schools, American Intellectual property law Association, the USPTO, Law firms, Business Schools and Business council amongst others
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