A Conflict of Interests COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and also the world of labor. The economic and social disturbance caused by the pandemic is fatal. With these, one problem that arises is about the patent waiver and vaccine. […]
Higher educational institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in helping our c In this world full of life if I sit to observe each and every person in my visual field, what is one general observation which I will get? I find difference in behaviour of each and every being. Now the next question […]
World is getting shifted towards knowledge-based economy. Creation of knowledge-based assets leads to tech transfer which adds value to a country’s economy. The present pandemic proves it. Countries that invented vaccines for Covid-19 had traded and licensed the vaccines / vaccine formula for the needed countries. India too played a vital role in vaccine supply. […]
Various regions have different type climatic conditions with respect to their geographical locations on earth such as Tropical evergreen regions are in equatorial region receiving abundant rainfall and sunlight throughout the year, tropical region where southern part of India lies, temperate regions where European countries are present as well as polar regions. Every region has […]
At our school we all have studied history which has changed from time to time. But we generally do not focus on one aspect that is the aspect of innovation. When we observe that in primitive times when humans were hunter gatherers the first innovation that they did was of fire. From fire they started […]
INTRODUCTION: Copyright can be defined as the term used to denote author’s right or the right of the creator of a particular artistic work or any literary work. According to common understanding, development of copyright law is credited with invention of printing machine in 1440 by Gutenberg in Germany. The printing press invention allowed the readers access […]
Trade secret can be defined as that data or information that is crucial for business to run and is not disclosed before the general public. Reasonable attempts being made to keep them confidential. This confidential information can include various proposals, databases of clients, devices, formulae or compilations, designs etc. Although definition of trade secret may […]
Trademark Infringement and Customs According to Section 11 of the Customs Act, 1962 import of goods infringing intellectual property rights into India is prohibited. Even though the term counterfeiting of trademarks is not defined under the Trademarks act, 1999, section 102 of the act relating to “falsifying and falsely applying trademarks” corresponds to the […]
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 […]