Intellectual Property News

The 26th of April is celebrated as World Intellectual Property Day The purpose of the day is to create public awareness about the importance of intellectual property rights This year World IP Day puts innovation and supports the efforts to create a green future

IP Accelerator was launched in the US in 2019. It has since then expanded to Europe, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and now India. The programme was pilot-launched in India last year.

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China and the US are currently engaged in a trade conflict and have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs of hundreds of billions of dollars on each other's goods.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the global innovative industry that India not just values intellectual property but will also protect it, especially in this era of technology advancement.

The United States on Thursday kept China and India on its Priority Watch List of trading partners that fail to protect intellectual property rights (IPR), hurting the economy.

Intellectual property rights and a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) would be key issues on the agenda in the ongoing India-US dialogue on the economic front, according to a State Department official.

A new British tax on companies that shift profits out of the country and into tax havens will target inter-company fees for services like use of intellectual property, according to a Treasury document seen by Reuters.

Facebook recently changed its privacy policy and many photographers, both amateur and professional, held fears that the social network could start commercialising their images.

India in April last year joined the Madrid Protocol which will enable domestic companies and entrepreneurs to obtain cost effective global trademark registration.

Independent American healthcare experts have expressed concern over the decision of India and the United States to establish a high-level working group on intellectual property to address each other's issues.

India and the US have decided to set up a high-level working group on intellectual property to sort out the contentious issues which have been hampering investments.

The government on Wednesday approved the continuation of a Rs 309.6 crore-scheme to modernise and strength Intellectual Property (IP) offices during the 12th Plan period.