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Category: Intellectual Property

World Book and Copyright Day, April 23rd

April 23, 2013
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April 23rd of every year has been celebrated World Book and Copyright Day for over 17 years now by UNESCO.  The member states of UNESCO all over the world celebrate the power of books to bring the world together. Books play a vital role in dissemination of information even at this digital age where webpages, tablet PC and mobile phone are widely used. From UNESCO, "23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo. It was a...

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Protect your trademark internationally from India, India Joins the International Trademark System

April 9, 2013
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India’s Minster for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma today deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at WIPO, bringing the total number of members of the international trademark system to 90. The treaty will enter into force with respect to India on July 8, 2013. The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks (Madrid system) offers trademark owners a cost effective, user friendly and streamlined means of protecting and managing their trademark portfolio internationally. Minister Sharma said “We recognize that this instrument will provide an opportunity for Indian companies, which are increasing their global footprint, to register trademarks in member countries of the Protocol through a single application, while also...

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Protecting your software or application name in India?

March 6, 2013
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Planning, designing, developing, implementing and deploying a software application is a herculean task, let alone the money and efforts spent in advertising, branding and marketing.  Therefore, a software application may look simple, efficient and user-friendly to the users, but does have a lot of monetary and human efforts behind it. A software developer is successful when his work is recognized and appreciated by his customers and more importantly when they give due credits to his works by purchasing it through legal means.  This is at the end-user level.  What about mischievous competitors or hackers or competitors who may involve in acts such as creating serial keys, counterfeiting, distributing through peer-to-peer networks, etc. Ways to protect to your software? Patents - Patents can prevent a competitor...

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How do you feel when someone takes credit for your work?

February 20, 2013
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How do you feel when someone takes credit for your work? It is not uncommon at work for your subordinates, co-workers, immediate supervisor, or boss, to take credit for the work you have burned the calories and spent sleepless nights for. When this happens during the course of your employment, you may choose to ignore this as you may end up at the least gaining some experience, if at all anything and at worst, there is another job out there. But what happens when you are an inventor or a business owner if someone uses your brand or business name or brain child for commercial gains? Can you take this lightly? Certainly not, right? How to register your trademark? If...

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