Patent & IP news for July 22, 2012

CSIR maintains DEATHLY silence on royalties (if any!) earned from licencing of its patents from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

It appears that my 5 months old campaign to force CSIR to disclose information on the royalties earned from licencing of its patents is simply not going to bear any fruit. I had initially filed ...

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The Basmati Controversy rears Head across the Indo-Pak Borders from spicyipindia.blogspot.com




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The followers of the Basmati controversy (for our earlier posts, see here) may have been under the impression that the matter had been put to rest back in 2008 when the ...

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Guest Post: Myriad’s Gene Patent Case Receives an Amicus curiae brief by Noble Laureate Dr. James D. Watson from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Taapsi Johri, a practising IP lawyer, has sent us this very interesting guest post on the ongoing Myriad, 'gene patents' case before the CAFC. The focus of her post is on the amicus brief filed ...

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Lack of Transparency in Domestic Policies harming the Pharmaceutical Sector? The Industry speaks out from spicyipindia.blogspot.com




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It will be quite superfluous to reiterate to the readers the strong vantage position that the Indian pharmaceutical industry holds at present in the global arena, as the second largest exporter ...

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Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management Inaugurated by Government from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The union Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma inaugurated the National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (NIIPM) building at Nagpur on the 21st of July, 2012 and named it the “Rajiv Gandhi ...

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Judge Koh's rulings on Apple's and Samsung's motions in limine favor neither party from www.fosspatents.com

On Friday, Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge who will preside over the Apple v. Samsung trial that begins in about a week, entered a minute order as a follow-up to a case management conference ...

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