When an inventor or legal representative or applicant decides to file a patent application in foreign countries, the United States of America (USA) would be the first choice for filing due to the market potential in various fields as well as IP diligence. This article aims to provide the basic requirements for filing PCT national phase patent applications in the USA. The patent application...Read More

In the past decade, massive growth and increasing computing power of IoT devices have resulted in unprecedented volumes of data. Trends show that there will be a continuous growth of data volumes as 5G networks have increased its number of connected devices. Further, there will be a need for efficient management of data. Edge computing initially started in the 1990s, when Akamai launched its CDN with an idea to introduce server nodes at locations geographically closer to the end-user with ...Read More

E-sport is considered as one of the most revolutionary introductions to sports in recent history. It’s not just a different set of rules, but also an amalgamation of the elements of skill and strategy of the physical world and technology’s virtual reality. A video game essentially has a bundle of intellectual property rights and contractual rights within it. These rights are ap...Read More

An individual or any other legal entity would decide to file a patent application to better leverage technical innovation. For a person or entity desirous of obtaining better leverage from their technical innovation, one thing they should definitely consider is the country(ies) where they wish to file an application and thereby secure patent protection. While doing so, a person or ...Read More

Broadcom Inc., a global corporation with technological expertise in the development, manufacture, and supply of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products, for use in the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage, and industrial markets has recently had a filed lawsuit of patent infringement against Netflix, popular an...Read More

The increased fee of the European Patent Office (EPO) comes into effect from Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The EPO is known to increase its fees every two years and the last revision was made in 2018.  This decision is taken by the European Patent Office’s Administrative Council on 12 December 2019 (CA/D 12/19) by amending Articles 2 and 7 of the Rules relating to Fe...Read More

We all know about the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world like lightning unless you have been living under a giant rock. The scare of it seems to be increasing with every passing day and rightly so because even though doctors and researchers are working day and night, there is no sign of vaccine as of now. There are 2, 77,004 cases as of now out of which 91,986 have recovered ...Read More

PARTIESThe Plaintiffs are Nippon Steel & Sumitomoto Metal Corporation is a large steel producing company.The Defendants Kishor D. Jain who is involved in the business of trading in steelBRIEF FACTS...Read More

RFA (OS)(COMM) 13/2018 & CM 29064/2018 PARTIES The Plaintiff (appellant) Christian Louboutin Sas is a manufacturing company bearing a ‘Red sole’ trademark. The defendants %...Read More

INTRODUCTIONOver the past few years, there has been an increase in outer space exploration activity. It is pertinent to note that almost all activities in relation to the use and exploration of space are an outcome of intellectual inventions. Since inventions have no boundaries there should not be any restrictions with regards to i...Read More

What is a Patent?A patent is an exclusive right for an invention that could be a product or a process. Only the person who has got the patent registered has the right to use the invention for a limited period.[1] Products in the form of ball pen, the telephone, and the electronic iron come under the ambit of 'inventions%2...Read More

Introduction:Indian Cinema is as diverse as the land from which it evolves, with around 1600 movies screened every year in different languages. Since its inception in the late 1890s, Indian Cinema has traveled expeditiously and so has the new age technology, wherein online piracy co-exists and strangles the exclusive rights o...Read More

This article attempts to unveil the difference between awareness and understanding vis-à-vis Intellectual Property; the evidentiary gap between awareness and understanding leading to confusion and misinformation; heterogeneous reasons pointing out the lack of understanding amongst people and the comprehensive ways to overcome this stigma.The knowledge society that we live in today has...Read More

Air New Zealand’s Attempt of Trademarking “Kia Ora” Under FireAir New Zealand’s attempt of registering a logo of the Maori phrase “kia ora” as their trademark, has come under fire. Maori (also known as “te reo”) is a language spoken by the indigenous Maori community in New Zealand. “Kia ...Read More

International Regime of Intellectual Property Laws:Today, trade and commerce in any commodity take place on a global platform. Intellectual property is no exception to this. Therefore before looking at intellectual property and trade, we must first understand the le...Read More