Volume I: Issue 2 - April- June 2008.

KSCSTE- PIC Bulletin

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Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights

PIC-Keralaorganizedaoneday Workshopon IPR inassociationwith Nehru Arts & ScienceCollege,Kan-hangad,Kasargodat Kanhangadon 10thApril 2008.Retd.JusticeV.P. MohanKumar, Member,KeralaStateHuman Rights CommissioninauguratedtheWorkshop.Thefollowing lecturesweredeliveredonthe WorkshQP.'Intellectual PropertyRights- Anoverview' by Sri. V.P. Balagangadharan,Scientist& Head - TechnologyTransfer& Documen-tationGroup,VSSC,Thiruvananthapuram.Hegaveanoverviewof differentformsof IPR.' Dimensionsand

Challengesof[PR' byProf./Dr.RameshMoorthy,Pro-fessor,JusticeK.S. HedgeInstituteof ManagementStudies,Mangalore.HepointedoutthelegalaspectsofIPR. Mr. Safikh.S,ResearchFellow, PIC - Keralamadea presentationon the activitiesof PIC-Keralaandservicesofferedby the Centre.Therewereabout130participantsfor theprogramme.Theparticipantss-howedkeeninterestin thedifferentaspectsoIPR.

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Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights

A one day Seminar on IPR was organized by PIC-Kerala in association with Victory Instituteof Technology, Thrissur and Energy Conservation Society at Hotel Pearl Regency,Thrissur on17th May 2008. The Hon'ble Minister for Revenue and Land Reforms, Adv. K.P.Rajendraninaugurated the function. Hon'ble MLA Adv. Therambil Ramakrishnan delivered thePresidential Address. The Technical Sessions were handled by the experts in the field oflPR.Dr. Ajit Prabhu .V, Principal Scientific Officer, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology& Environment, Trivandrum gave a presentation on ' An overview of IPR ' . Dr. c.R. Elsy,Associate Professor, Kerala Agriculture University made a presentation on 'Scope ofGeographical Indications in Kerala'. Adv. Vinod Jabbar, Jubily vihar, Chalakkudy gave atalk o.n 'Legal dimensions oflPR '.The technical sessions were followed by a panel discussion.There were more than 100participants for the Seminar. The participants were mostly Studentsfrom various Industrial Training Institutes in and around Thrissur and general public as well.

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Talk on IPR

Dr. Ajit Prabhu V, Principal Scientific Officer, KSCSTE delivered a talk on 'Rolc oflPR inKnowledgc Management', as a part of the Refresher Course in Commerce & Management tothe tcachers from different Universities across the nation, organized by Academic StaffCollege, University of Kerala, at Trivandrum on 16th April 2008.

IPR Profile

WIPO Award winners

The WorldIntellectual Property Organization presented awards for two inventors at the GenevaInternationalExhibition of Inventionson April4, 2008. Mrs.Maryam Eslami from Iran won theWIPOAwardfor the best inventionby a womanfor a medicalinstrumentto be used in bonesurgeryand treatmentof variousbone- relatedailments.Mr.WanTarmeze from Malaysia won the WIPOAward for best invention from a developing Country forengineered wood madefromthe wastebiomassof oil palmplantations.Thewinnerswere selectedby an Internationaljury of expertsdesig-natedby the organizersof the exhibition.This is the twenty seventhyear in whichWIPOhaspre-sented awards at the Geneva event. Since 1979, WIPO awarded over 1000 medalsto inventors,includingy~unginventorsfrommorethan 100Countries.

(Source: Journal on IPR, NISCAIR, CSIR, Vol. 13, May 2008)

Kodak Settles Patent Litigation with St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants

EastmanKodakCompanyannouncedthat it has resolvedits patentdisputewith St. Clair IntellectualPropertyConsultantsInc.EffectiveMay 14,2008, the parties entered into a settlement agreementthat resolvesall of the litigationbetweenthem.Underthe termsof the settlement,Kodakassigneditsrights in the patentsin disputeto St. Clair,and stipulatedthat St. Clair is the ownerof the patents.St.ClairgrantedKodaka full releaseanda license to the patents in dispute and committed to grantlicensesto two othercompaniesof Kodak'schoosing. .

(Source:AGIPNEWS5856,18.05.2008)Piracyclaims$156milliontrade lossesinPakistan

Pakistanhas suffered $I56 million trade losses during the year 2007due to piracyin recordandmusic, books & Business Software, InternationalIntellectual Property Alliance report revealed.Copyrightpirateshasput country'snameon the 'Special30I' WatchList since 1989due to the wide-spreadpiracy,particularlyof the copyrightmaterialand the failureto implement its patent mailboxobligations under the TRIP's agreement. Enforcement issues regarding the Intellectual PropertyRights (IPRs) in Pakistan are emerging need oft he time. IPRs issuesare notonly discouragingforeign investors, but also hurting leading local companiesof fast movingconsumergoods items,medicine,bookwriters,musicindustry,film industry,autoparts manufacturesand tyremanufactures.

(Source:DailyTimes,26.04.2008)Kerala State - the tirst State to release IPR Pol icy

Kerala State become the first State in India to formulate the IPR Policy when Hon'ble Chiefr MinisterofKerala,Sri.V.S.Achuthanandanreleasedthe IntellectualPropertyRightsPolicyofthe

State by handing over a copyto Sri. S. P.Shukla,Formernegotiatorof the Countryat the UruguayRounds, on 28th June 2008.The policy envisagesthe settingup of KeralaTraditionalKnowledgeAuthority(KTKA)to protecttraditionalknowledge.Thepolicyhas envisagedmechanismsto preventmisappropriationof traditional knowledge associated with biological resourcesby foreigners. Tooverseeall the activities,a SupervisoryCouncil on Intellectual Property(SCIP)will be setupunderthe Chairmanshipof the chiefMinisterand LawMinisteras the ViceChairman

(Source: The New Indian Express, 28.06.2008)

Thee-filingof Patentshits1000markInlessthanoneyearof the receptionof the e-filingof Patents,theIndianPatentOfficereceived1000applicationselectronically.The e-filing of Patents& TrademarksfacilitywasinauguratedbytheHon'bleMinisterforCommerceandIndustry,Shri.KamalNathon20thJuly2008.Thenumberof applicationsreceivedsofar throughonlineisequaltoabout3%of the total filing of the Patentapplications.Therevenuereceivedthroughonlinepaymentgatewayforthe applicationsfiled online isapproximatelyRs.2.54crore.E-filingprovisionisalsoavailablefor filingnewTMRapplicationsandTMRsearch.

(Source:Websiteof IndianPatentOffice)IGNOUto launchMaster'sProgrammein IPRProf.V.N.RajasekharanPillai,ViceChancellor,IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity(IGNOU)saidthatIGNOUwill startPGCoursesandCertificateCoursesonIPR,Cyberlaw,AeronauticalEngineering,etc.duringtheyear2008- 2009.HesaidthatIGNOUjoinedhandswithQueenslandUniversityof TechnologyinAustraliaforconductingthecourses.TheOfficialagreementwassignedbetweenthePro- ViceChancellorofIGNOUandDeputyViceChancel-lorof QueenslandUniversityof Technologyin New Delhi. He saidthatSeparateMastersprogrammein IPRandCyberlaw is introducedin Indiafor thefirsttime.HeaddedthattheCourseswill startinJanuary2008andeligiblecandidatesfromall overtheWorldcanjoin theCourse.

(Source:MalayalaManorama,14.04.2008)&

(JournalonIPR,NISCAIR,CSIR,Vol.13,May2008)Patentopponentsto get repliesof applicants

TheIndianPatentOffice issueda notification to its respectivebranchofficespointingout that theywill berequiredto

providerepliesof theapplicantcompanyto theentity which is opposingits grantof patent.This is to allow companiesmakingoptimumuseof the patentoppositionprovision.A Federationof IndianChambersof CommerceandIndustry

(FICCl) Official saidthatofficials atall the patentofficesshouldprovidethepatentapplicant's replyto the opponentcompany.Till date,around300pre- grantoppositionshavebeenfiled. However,dueto the lack of uniformstandards

to provideadequateresponseto the companyopposingthegrantof patent,haddiscouragedmorecompaniesto lever-agethe provision.Basedon this ground,the PatentOffice hascomeup with thenewmethod.

(Source:TheBusinessLine,21.07.2008)

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