Category: Intellectual Property
Funding to protect your intellectual property
Business entities, regardless of its size, commonly complain about their expenses and spends on intellectual property (IP) protection. As a result, they are reluctant to take appropriate actions against infringers which puts them at considerable risk in losing revenue. However, this is attributed to the lack of awareness of benefits from protecting IP and also…
Pharmaceutical trademarks – how to know if a drug name is available or not?
Small Pharma Companies: How to know if a drug name is available or not? Pharma industry contributes more than any other sectors to the trademark industry by filing number of applications for trademark registration. This is apparently backed up by the recent Annual Report 2012-2013 published by The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM)….
Indian Trademark Office gets 100% computerized, paperless, including RTI!
Sequel to the previous notifications, a third notification from CGPDTM today notified the release of online facility for all Trade Marks forms through comprehensive e-filing services of Trade Marks. Only a few days ago we wrote about the first and second notifications which incorporated up to 57 forms. The third notification comes as a surprise today,…
Jibe sparks trademark application for “Namo Tea Party” in Class 45
Controversial Remarks The controversial remarks from opponent political parties over Mr. Narendra Modi’s as a Prime Ministerial candidate seem to have worked a lot in Mr. Modi’s favor. While BJP is moving ahead with its chai pe charcha campaign to gather massive support from public for its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, some of his supporters went…
How to file copyright online in India?
Steps to file your copyright application online However, the e-filing is not 100% online and the process is a mix of 80% online and 20% offline. Here are the steps to accomplish registration: Enter your valid User ID and Password to login. Click onto NewUser Registration, if you have not yet registered. Note down User ID…
Indian Copyright Office goes online again!
Filing Copyright Online E-filing or online filing system at Indian Copyright Office was introduced back in 2009 and continued to function until the late 2011 or early 2012 when it came to a halt. At least for the whole year of 2013 it was almost nonfunctional. During that period, the Indian Copyright Office had been…