[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZZETE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) New Delhi, the 26th June, 2008 Notification No. 29/2008 ..
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Frowning on real estate developers who refuse to pay compensation for delayed deliveries, a court here has fined leading builders er Ansal Properties and Infrastructure (API) Rs. 27.3 lakhs for not handing over an apartment on time.The National Consu ..
Kerala Friday unveiled its intellectual property rights (IPR) policy aimed at safeguarding the state’s rich base of ayurveda and herbal medicine. With this move, Kerala has become the first state in the country to have an IPR policy in place. Chief M ..
HIV patient group—Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)—has filed a post-grant opposition against Swiss major Roche’s patent for its HIV drug Valganciclovir at the Chennai Patent office. The Chennai patent office granted the patent to Roche last ye ..
SAP has agreed to pay i2 Technologies, maker of supply chain management software, $83.3 million to settle a patent claim i2 brought against the enterprise software maker. The Dallas company had sued SAP in 2006, claiming that it had infringed on a nu ..
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India became one of the few developing countries to launch the ‘e-passports scheme’ with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee presenting the first copy to President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Wednesday. The e-passports wil ..
India and China might be the competing economic giants globally, but when it comes to innovation, the land of dragon is way ahead, filing nearly seven times more patent applications compared to our country. According to global research and analytics ..
Patients from Brazil have asked the Delhi patent office not to grant a patent pending on the HIV drug tenofovir because it would prevent the import of low-cost generic medicines from India they say are important for their national AIDS treatment prog ..