Trademark | Intellectual Property | General FAQs

Trademarks – Frequently Asked Questions

What is Trademark?

A trademark is a sign that identifies and distinguish certain goods and services as those produced or provided by a specific person or enterprise.

According to Section 2 (zb) of The TradeMark Act, 1999, “trade mark” means a “mark capable of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one … Read More

Indian Patent Procedure and Timelines

This article provides an overview of the Indian patent procedure and timelines of a patent application in India.

Indian Patent Procedure and Timelines

Patent Application Filling

An application for patent can be filed under prescribed rules via Indian Patent Office website. Every application for a patent shall be for one invention only and accompanied with the prescribed fee, filed at an appropriate office.

All patent related procedures are carried out … Read More

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO BE NAMED AN INVENTOR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – INTELLEGENT ENOUGH TO BE NAMED AN INVENTOR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?

The fathers of the field, Minsky and McCarthy, in 1950s described artificial intelligence as any task performed by a program or a machine that, if a human carried out the same activity, we would say the human had to apply intelligence to accomplish the task.

Artificial intelligence (AI) a legal inventor?

In this blog we look at the outcome of a prominent case in … Read More

IP (Intellectual Property) Strategies for Medical Devices

IP Strategies for Medical Device Technologies

Medical Devices cover a wide variety of products like surgical implants, diagnostic kits, drug delivery systems, etc. which can be protected and monopolized via various Intellectual Property Rights, as and when they are created at various stages of development.

Medical device development and introduction in any market requires strong requires strict regulatory compliance and Intellectual Property (IP) clearance and protection.

Medical device development requires simultaneous … Read More