Everyone has a special child in their life -- and if they are really lucky more than one special child. Loving that child is easy, but selecting the right gift for birthdays and holidays is not so easy. Finding the right gift for kids can...

The philosophy behind the grant of Patent is “Suffer less evil for more good” and the purpose is to stimulate the investment in industrial innovation. When somebody invents a new product or process, which is capable of industrial application and discloses it to the Public...

Overview KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry is still naïve but is an exponentially growing phenomenon in India. In last four years, the industry has witnessed growth of more than CAGR (Cumulative Annual Growth Rate) of 26%, creating a sea of opportunities for young graduates and...

by: Geoff Ficke Recently I was ambling around the internet, researching lecture and article topics. I stumbled onto a Wikipedia site that at first seemed quite banal: Timeline of Historic Inventions. This link offered a chronological listing of historic inventions from the Paleolithic period, through...

Intellectual property law includes the rules that regulate copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs, trade secrets, and patents. While these are not the only types of intellectual property that the law pertains to, they are the most popular. Intellectual property rights essentially give you a limited period...

For many artists, designers, and inventors, the copyright registration process is just as hard as coming up with a great idea that will appeal to the masses. Imagine spending years developing new computer software, and then having to fill out lots of paper work just...

Patent numbers are issued sequentially, beginning with the number one. Patent number one was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790. It took 75 years for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to issue patent number 1,000,000. Patent number 7,000,000 was issued...

Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights are all instruments or tools which are most expedient for certain areas due to their own strengths and weaknesses.  What you should know about Intellectual Property is the fact that the three main areas do overlap and they are more useful...

In pursuit of establishing an Intellectual Poperty Academy in Kerala, we pursued the  RTI endeavor with a fresh demand for inspectingthe File No.  20311/Nodal(1)/08/Law, which was stated to be under different levels of deliberations .  It is an interesting story altogether. My friend, Mr. Prasanth (Blogger of...

Exhibition industry, belonging to the field of trade in service, is a fresh troop in information industry. As the economic globalization intensifies, various exhibitions in China also started being carried out like a raging fire. The core of exhibition industry itself is creativity, and related...

Overview KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry is still naïve but is an exponentially growing phenomenon in India. In last four years, the industry has witnessed growth of more than CAGR (Cumulative Annual Growth Rate) of 26%, creating a sea of opportunities for young graduates and...

An intellectual property law firm should have attorneys with several years of experience protecting the rights of artists, designers, engineers, and business developers. There are several different types of intellectual property, so a law firm might employ lawyers that specialize in individual topics such as...

That dream home in France you keep promising yourself may not be beyond your means after all! With French property prices falling and reports of it being a buyer’s market, this could be a good time to consider it, says Kent lawyer and chartered tax...

Patents ensure that a person or company owns the legal rights to an idea, technology, or product for a specified length of time. They are legally binding arrangements that prevent competitors from taking ideas and products to sell or use as their own. There are...

The term "intellectual property" was introduced in the case of Davoll et al. v. Brown in October 1845 in the Massachusetts Circuit Court. In this Justice Charles L. Woodbury held that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.� Section 1 of the French law of 1791 also stated that "All new discoveries are the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years....