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Pre–Licensing Due Diligence In Patent Licensing: Mitigating Legal And Commercial Risks
09/04/2026 12:41 PM
Introduction : Once a person, entity, or institution owns a patent, the patentee has the exclusive rights under Section 48 of the Patents Act, 1970, for a period of 20 years from the date of filing of the pat...
Cross-Border Health-Data Contracts Between India and Singapore: Allocating Risk in a Two-Regime World
08/31/2026 11:20 AM
Introduction : India and Singapore are two opposite sides of the health data coin: India’s hospitals, labs, and innovators create health data, while its Singapore counterparts host, reinsure, and analyze it...
India and Singapore Differences for Filing Asian Tech. Patents
08/27/2026 11:10 AM
Introduction : For companies and startups the intellectual property is regarded as their valuable assets. Patent has a pivotal role as it deals with an exclusive right granted for an invention. Patents benefi...
From Manuscripts to Metadata: Protecting India’s Traditional Knowledge Through the TKDL
08/26/2026 11:43 AM
Introduction : Before there were laboratories, research agencies, and patent offices, people in India used turmeric for wound healing, neem for infection treatment, and plant medicines to balance bodily funct...
Japan's Patent Strategy for Robotics and Human-Machine Interfaces: A Roadmap for Indian Innovators
08/25/2026 10:37 AM
Introduction : Japan is home to one of the densest robotics patent clusters in the world, covering industrial robots, assistive and nursing devices, and human-machine interface technologies that employ a comb...
Licensing Advanced Manufacturing Know-How: Structuring Japan-India Technology Transfer Agreements
08/21/2026 12:39 PM
Introduction : Japanese manufacturers have a technological advantage in certain precision - engineering segments such as components for automobiles, special alloy processes and have been licensing technology...