Archive for December, 2021

Claims are the important part of a patent application that define the scope of protection that can be granted to a patent. Among different types of claims we find the mention of ‘product by process’ claims. These claims are generally used to define the non obvious and novel characteristics of product that are linked to […]

DEFINING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: According to the definition of World Intellectual Property Organization Traditional knowledge is: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, Indigenous heritage, customary heritage rights. Tradition based knowledge having basis in transmission of knowledge from one generation to other. This tradition based knowledge brings covers a variety of knowledge such as agricultural, scientific, ecological, technical, bio […]

The 2017 Trademarks Rules provide for cancellation forms to be lodged Brands, logos, and other artistic design and images have all been associated with the title “trademark” in the past. But it doesn’t end there, people might be amazed to know that sounds can be used as a trademark as well.   Corporations are upping their […]

Companies, individuals, and other entities can utilise the Trademark law to protect their labels, logos, emblems etc from being used by others by registering them. While the registration protects the trademarks, they are subject to revocation for a variety of reasons. The principle of trademark revocation can be regarded as a method to have a previously […]

Several decades ago, the richest men in the world were the owners of oil fields which generally did not mean that they had worked hard for it, but they had inherited from their ancestors. Fortunately, the richest people in the world today i.e., the founders of all the top companies such as Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, […]