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Lupin has received Euro 20 million from patent rights
Lupin has received Euro 20 million from Laboratoires Servier of France for the sale of additional patent rights to Perindopril.
Dr. Kamal K Sharma, managing director, Lupin said, “This income significantly boosts our performance for the current year. We are very pleased with the transaction and it goes a long way to further demonstrate our IP [...]
Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.
Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.
The plaintiffs claim they own U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a “User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects” issued Dec. 10, 1991, as well as two other similar patents. It is [...]
Google India Launches Text Messaging Service
Google India, the Indian subsidiary of the world’s largest search engine, Tuesday launched the beta version of its short messaging service (SMS) for mobile users in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mahatma’s Charkha to Generate Electricity
The humble charkha or spinning wheel, a symbol of Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement, will also generate electricity besides spinning cotton in a model developed by an innovator.
The wooden Charkha has now been customized into an ‘e-charkha’ by
Hiremath, a Bangalore-based engineer who has been active in the field of non-conventional energy resources, has now customized [...]
Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have applied to patent the broad method they plan to use to create their “synthetic organism”.
Dr Craig Venter, the man who led the private sector effort to sequence the human genome, has been working for years to create a man-made organism. But constructing a primitive microbe from a kit of genes is a daunting task.
Dr Venter says, eventually, these life forms could be designed to make biofuels and [...]
A five-year-old kid from Minnesota has patented a way of swinging on a child’s swing.
The US Patent Office issued patent 6,368,227 on 9 April 2002 to Steven Olson of St Paul, Minnesota for a “method of swinging on a swing”. Olson’s father Peter is a patent attorney.The award has generated a mixture of chuckles and frustration at an overworked patent system unable to catch absurd applications. The patent covers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PATENTS DECLARED INVALID BY THE PTO OR THE COURTS
The following software patents have been invalidated either by the PTO during a patent reexamination(R) or by the courts as a ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit(I), or rendered unenforceable/useless by the courts or public actions (U), or the patent was withdrawn (W) either by the PTO or the applicant after realizing shortly before patent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Patent office in question
Some questions :
Should the Patent and Trademark Office be issuing 20,000+ new software patents every year?
Is there that much novel and unobvious, unpublished, innovation in the software industry?
Are biotechnology patents really avoiding these problems, especially as biotechnology patents incorporate more and more computer technology?
Probably not, and thus your company or law firm will need resources [...]
Dell vs. Apple: 10 Years Later
It was 10 years ago that Michael Dell, speaking before several thousand technology executives at ITxpo97 in Orlando, answered a question about what he would do if he were CEO of Apple with a remark he probably instantly regretted:
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
As [...]
‘Ebay… patent devil on its way…’
Oh ho…dont wory. The button ‘Buy it Now’ is still in use And you can still make loads of money using the same button. MercExchange has failed in battle against the infringement right on ‘But It Now’. This is another example of how to make money by preventing others from doing what they been doing [...]
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