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Music licensing bodies The Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) and The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) have started a radio campaign across the country to create awareness about the issue of music royalty.

The campaigns, that began this week, are being aired on Reliance ADAG's Big FM and Sun Network’s SFM which promise a pan India presence and will be on air for one month, mainly targeting event organisers in view of the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Comments PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan, “We have started campaigning on radio to educate the laymen that although they are not directly involved in paying the royalties, they have to make it a point that the organisers pay the requisite royalty fees during the New Year celebrations. PPL would be airing 30 second ads around 20 times a day.”

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MUMBAI: Roche Ltd, the Indian arm of Swiss drugmaker F Hoffman La Roche Scientific, has won a trademark-infringement case against Cipla Ltd over its anti-infection drug brand-named Valcyte.

The Bombay High Court found Cipla’s brandname ‘Valcept’ —- for the generic version of the drug valganciclovir —- infringing upon Roche’s trademark rights.
The court has given Cipla three weeks to change the brand-name of its version.
Generic drugs are copycats versions of innovator drugs, and are sold far cheaper. Cipla’s Valcept is priced at Rs 245 per tablet against Roche Valcyte’s Rs 1,000.

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he Indian government plans to bring a new law to create a mechanism to transfer intellectual property (IP) created by public funded research to beneficiaries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Wednesday.

"We are looking at passing legislation that will create appropriate mechanisms and incentives for transfer of intellectual property by publicly funded research to beneficiaries," Manmohan Singh said inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the premier Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at the J.N. Tata auditorium.

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The risk of India’s generic drugs being labelled counterfeit under the new definition proposed by WHO has receded, a government represe
ntative concerned with the issue said. This would ensure that India’s manufacturers continue to sell their drugs in foreign markets.

The WHO-funded International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) had proposed a new definition of counterfeit drugs as medical products with a “false representation about their identity, history or source”.

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The Registrar of Trademarks has said that Mount Everest Mineral Water cannot register names of mountains as trademarks, dealing a blow to the Tata Group firm in its tussle with Ramesh Chauhan’s Bisleri over the name Himalaya.

Citing the Geographical Indications Act, the office of the Registrar of Trademarks has maintained that names of mountains are not acceptable for registration as trademark for agricultural and natural products.

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French cosmetics and toiletries giant L’Oreal has hauled discount retailer MyDollarStore to court over issues relating to intellectual pro
perty rights (IPR) and illegal imports, it is learnt. The company has filed a case against MyDollarStore in the Delhi High Court recently, sources said.

In recent times, MNCs have been upset over the move by retailers to import top global brands, claiming that this leads to loss of business opportunity, unfair competition and product cannibalisation. However, sources said hectic parleys are on between the two parties and the talks could lead to an out-of-court settlement. L’Oreal officials did not reply to an ET query on the subject. MyDollarStore officials were also unavailable for comment.

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In a setback to Bisleri owner Ramesh Chauhan, Delhi HC on Monday declined to modify an earlier injunction (ruling) order against
Bisleri and in favour of The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) over the legal battle involving IPR for the Maaza beverage. Reacting to the court order, Mr Chauhan told ET that his company Aqua Minerals (AMPL) has asked the HC to vacate this order on the basis that it has no jurisdiction in the matter.

The Delhi HC, in its latest order passed on November 17, has ruled that it would not modify the injunctions it had earlier granted in favour of TCCC and against Mr Chauhan’s company. TCCC has maintained that even though it did not buy the Maaza trademark outside India, no agreement grants Mr Chauhan’s company the right to use the formulations sold to and owned by TCCC outside India
.

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India's patent offices, which has embarked on a modernisation programme, will employ 1,600 personnels in the next three-four years, a s
enior government official said on Wednesday.

As the country is emerging as a global hub for industries such as IT, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, entertainment and research and development, its patent office will digitalise all trademark and patent records by March 31, 2009, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Joint Secretary N N Prasad said at a seminar here.

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: Ethno-botanist Deepak Acharya has spent eight years in the Satpura mountains in Madhya Pradesh, parts of which lie cut off from civilisation, driven by a single goal -- documenting and salvaging India's traditional herbal remedies before they are lost to the world.

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In a bid to ensure better protection for Indian trademarks across the world, the government on Thursday approved modification in the Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill. Talking to media persons after the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office, Prithviraj Chavan, said, “The amended Bill will provide better protection to Indian trade marks in designated member countries and afford reciprocal protection to trade marks from member countries abroad.”

It will thus encourage transfer of technology through trademark licensing and franchising and generally promote overall business confidence in Indian intellectual property rights (IPR) system globally, he added. The approval given by the Cabinet for modification of the Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill, 2007, with certain consequential changes was on the basis of recommendations contained in the report of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce, the minister said. The Bill would be introduced in Parliament, he added.

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All decks seem to have been finally cleared for the review of the rejection of Novartis’ patent on its cancer drug Glivec. The Supreme Court has appointed Dr P.C. Chakraborty, of the Patent Office in Kolkata, as technical member on the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) for the review of this case.

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A local gym owner and instructor were arrested on Thursday after they allegedly manhandled a licensing inspector of the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) when he asked them to produce license for playing music in the gymnasium on Wednesday.

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After Pakistan’s refusal to accept India’s offer of joint registration of basmati, under the Geographical Indications (GI), the government’s move to empower the Agricultural and Processed Food Product Export Development Authority (Apeda) for undertaking the registration process through an ordinance may be delayed for few months.

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The law ministry has recommended introduction of penal provisions in the Public Funded R&D (Protection, Utilisation and Regulation of Intellectual Property) Bill of 2007 to prevent misuse of intellectual property by scientists. The Bill intends to allow public sector R&D organisations to commercialise their inventions and share their profits with the inventor.

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In order to provide brand protection and curb duplication of products, IT, pharma, electronics, telecom and electrical goods manufacturing giants are approaching private detectives to safeguard them against Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violation.

"A number of global firms have approached us seeking help to stop IPR infringement. Companies are really taking the issue seriously. We expect number to grow further," said Kunwar Vikram Singh, President, Association of Private Detectives of India.

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To marketers large and small, the Web is a wide open frontier, an unlimited billboard with boundless branding opportunities. For the empirical proof, look at the filings with the government for new trademarks that, put simply, are brand names. Applications surged in the dot-com years, peaking in 2000 and then falling sharply for two years, before rising to a record last year of more than 394,000.

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The Centre has asked the Supreme Court for more time to come up with its suggestion on the composition of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), with regard to having a technical member on the Board.

The IPAB composition is significant, as it will look into the rejection of Novartis’ patent application on its cancer drug Glivec. But the IPAB profile had caused Novartis some heart-burn in the past, as the technical member on the IPAB was the former patent controller, Mr S. Chandrasekaran, under whom Novartis’ patent application on Glivec had been rejected in the first place, in 2006.

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The Tea Board of India is currently fighting 15 cases in about 10 countries over the violation of certified trademark (CTM) and geographical indication (GI) rules with respect to Darjeeling Tea. The product and the logo were registered as a trademark in 1998 and the GI application was filed in 2003.

“The rulings of some cases have gone against us, mainly because different courts interpret the parameters differently,” said Anindita Ray, the Board’s director of tea promotion.

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Pfizer has won a patent challenge in Denmark by India’s largest drug-maker Ranbaxy Laboratories on atorvastatin, the active ingredient of the world’s largest selling cholesterol drug, Lipitor, which has global sales of over $13 billion.

A Pfizer statement said that the Eastern Division of the High Court in Copenhagen (Denmark) upheld the basic and salt patents on Lipitor. The basic patent on Lipitor expires in November 2011 in Denmark and the salt patent in July 2010. The decision, which is subject to an appeal, prevents launch of Ranbaxy’s generic version before November 2011.

“Our settlements cover more than 90-95 per cent of the Lipitor market and the existing litigations are insignificant,” commented a Ranbaxy spokesperson.

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