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India is tenth in spam generation list: Report
Indian banks faced more than 1,000 unique phishing attacks between July 2007 and June 2008.
The underground economy report prepared by Symantec Corporation for the specified period provides information about the growing underground economy globally. While it says, the value of the total advertised goods on the underground economy servers were more than $276 million globally during this period, it points out that 6 per cent of the total compromised computers across the world, were found in India during September 2008.
Change in Bill okayed to protect Indian trademarks globally - The Financial Express
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.
Modern History Sourcebook: Commissioner Lin: Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
Every native of the Inner Land who sells opium, as also all who smoke it, are alike adjudged to death. Were we then to go back and take up the crimes of the foreigners, who, by selling it for many years have induced dreadful calamity and robbed us of enormous wealth, and punish them with equal severity, our laws could not but award to them absolute annihilation!
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ho looks upon all mankind with equal
benevolence---who, if a source of profit exists anywhere, diffuses it over the whole
world---who, if the tree of evil takes root anywhere, plucks it up for the benefit of all
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Every native of the Inner Land who sells opium, as also all who smoke it, are alike
adjudged to death. Were we then to go back and take up the crimes of the foreigners, who,
by selling it for many years have induced dreadful calamity and robbed us of enormous
wealth, and punish them with equal severity, our laws could not but award to them absolute
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MNCs seek detectives' help to check IPR violations-
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.
US to partner India's biggest media convention
In what would be a significant boost to the domestic entertainment industry, the United States has been roped in as the partner country for the 2009 Ficci Frames — the annual global convention on the entertainment and media industry that is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B). It will be the tenth year of Ficci Frames next year.
A large contingent of executives from Hollywood-based film studios, animation companies, several film producers and US officials are expected to come to Mumbai in February next year leading to the possibility of a number of film and television deals being signed, sources said.
According to the recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the overseas market of Indian films is estimated to grow at 19 per cent over the next five years to reach Rs 2,000 crore in 2012 from the size of Rs 850 crore last year. The major contributions of this pie will come from the US and UK, the report says.
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In what would be a significant boost to the domestic entertainment industry, the United States has been roped in as the partner country for the 2009 Ficci Frames — the annual global convention on the entertainment and media industry that is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B). It will be the tenth year of Ficci Frames next year.
A large contingent of executives from Hollywood-based film studios, animation companies, several film producers and US officials are expected to come to Mumbai in February next year leading to the possibility of a number of film and television deals being signed, sources said.
According to the recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the overseas market of Indian films is estimated to grow at 19 per cent over the next five years to reach Rs 2,000 crore in 2012 from the size of Rs 850 crore last year. The major contributions of this pie will come from the US and UK, the report says.
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We now have a film treaty agreements with the UK and Italy, both of which were once the partner country at Ficci Frames. With the US partnering Ficci Frames next year, we should hope for a similar treaty,” says an official in the I&B ministry.
The film treaty agreements between two countries normally help the producers with tax incentives, funding and other benefits related to shooting the film in locations in both the countries.
Babies'death in AIIMS trials open Pandora's box
Bangalore:The death of 49 babies in clinical trials at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi may have opened a Pandora's box as two of the trial drugs have never been tried on patients below 18 years, an expert said.
How many of the children died because of the trial drugs will be known only when an enquiry committee submits its report this month, but doctors have already raised questions of ethics.
In reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query, the AIIMS said that 49 babies had died during clinical trials over the past two-and-a-half years.
The AIIMS paediatrics department conducted 42 sets of trials on 4,142 babies - 2,728 of them below the age of one - since Jan 1, 2006.
Two of the trial drugs - olmesartan and valsartan, meant for reducing blood pressure - have never been tried on patients below the age of 18 years, said Chandra M. Gulhati, editor of the Monthly Index of Medical Specialties and a keen obserger of the clinical trials in India.
India given 15,261 patents in 2007-2008
A record number of scientific inventions have been patented in the country during the last financial year. The tally of patents is nearly twice that of the year before.
The controller general of patents’ office granted a total 15,261 patents in 2007-08 as against 7,539 granted in 2006-07. This is a 11-fold rise compared to the tally five years ago.
This includes 977 product patents allotted in pharmaceutical sector up to March 2008. Patenting of pharma products was allowed after an amendment in the Patents Act in 2005. The uptrend in patenting inventions has continued. The controller general of patents has granted around 6,000 patents in the first quarter of the current year, said senior official in the ministry of commerce.
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Only 1,417 domestic
inventions were patented. In the year 2006-07 too, 5,632 foreign patents were
granted as against 1,907 domestic patents, said the official. Thus there was a
significant decline in domestic patents. The previous years also showed only a
modest growth in domestic patents.
The growth in number of patents
is so large because of chemical and drug patents being registered in the
country. In year 2007-08, 4,071 patents where from the chemicals category and
1,469 were drugs, said the official.
Crime in Cyberia: an incomplete list of offenders - IndianExpress.Com
An unknown Indian hacker has been charged with the greatest cyber-heist in history for allegedly helping a criminal gang steal identities of an estimated eight million people in a hacking raid that could net more than £2.8 billion in illegal funds. The hacker breached IT defences of Best Western Hotel group’s online booking system and sold details of how to access it through an underground network operated by the Russian mafia.
A look at some of the biggest cyber criminals:
Financial Express : Telcos to put $400 m for EIG cable
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) and Saudi Telecom are investing around $400 million in an undersea cable link -- The Europe India Gateway (EIG) cable. Though the other telecom firms have stakes in other submarine cables, this would be the first undersea cable owned by BSNL in which the company is investing $50 million. Sources said that the company’s board has approved the investment in the project.
Once the cable is up, it would help BSNL offer more competitive rates for its broadband and international long distance tariffs.
BSNL, which is the largest broadband service provider in the country, derives as much as Rs 2,000 crore revenue from the segment, but analysts say that it stands a huge threat from Wi-Max, and the only way forward is capacity expansion which will be best done through participating in such consortiums.
Currently, Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel have the bandwidth axis rate control, and for BSNL, investing in undersea cable links, will allow it to keep a check on the costs as it is expected to reduce its reliability on the former two companies.
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Why all radio stations sound alike
About three-fourths of all music sold in India is from films, the most popular genre. As things stand, radio companies pay royalties to three organisations — PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited), the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) for Hindi film music and SIMCA (The South Indian Music Companies Association) for South Indian music. In addition to this, two companies are among the other main royalty beneficiaries — Super Cassette Industries (T-Series) and Yashraj Films. Both sell their music as individual right-holders, not through industry bodies.
In India, royalty is a flat rate charged per hour per station. So if Red FM plays a song in Mumbai, a large advertising market, or Big plays it in Dhule, a very small market, the absolute amount of royalty remains the same. As a percentage, this could range from 7 per cent of revenues for big city stations to 40 per cent for small-town ones. This puts cost pressure, especially on the smaller stations.
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So if Red FM plays a song in Mumbai, a large advertising market, or Big plays it in Dhule, a very small market, the absolute amount of royalty remains the same. As a percentage, this could range from 7 per cent of revenues for big city stations to 40 per cent for small-town ones. This puts cost pressure, especially on the smaller stations.
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T-Series and Yashraj Films bundle free playing time with the deal, leading to an effective discount of 40-50 per cent. This means stations ‘have to’ play the music bought from these companies, especially the latest films for a larger proportion of airtime. That means that even with bad music Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, a Yashraj Film, would get more airtime. Such deals leave little scope for variety even within film music.
Most web users have ‘Scrabulous’ blocked
The networking site, Facebook, has restricted the popular “add-on” application, ‘Scrabulous’ to most users after receiving a letter from Mattel Inc, Jayant Agarwalla, one of the creators of Scrabulous.com, told The Hindu here on Saturday.
Mattel Inc. owns Scrabble rights outside Canada and the United States of America and had approached the Indian courts in February 2008, seeking an order for taking down Scrabulous from Facebook and other servers.
The brothers, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, and their web-design and technology company, R J Software, were previously served a lawsuit by game-making giant Hasbro Inc., owner of Scrabble rights in Canada and the U.S. , at a New York federal court for violating its copyright and trademarks. Hasbro also sent a notice demanding that Facebook remove the application from the site. “Facebook took the unfortunate decision to restrict most users from accessing Scrabulous on August 22, in response to a ‘take down notice’ from Mattel on August 14,” said Mr. Jayant.
Living in a virtual world - IndianExpress.Com
The world has just opened up for Moushumi Chatterjee, a 43-year-old housewife in south Kolkata’s Tollygunje. Ever since her family got an Internet connection last month, Chatterjee has spent much of her spare time trying to get a hang of the bewildering virtual world. “My children spend a lot of time on social networking websites. I decided to familiarise myself with the Net to keep a tab on what they were up to. But now, I am discovering new things every day,” she says.
Financial Express : Chemists in new deal to beat big retail
he fierce battle in the retail pharma space is set to reach new dimensions, as drug retailers have started entering into exclusive tie-ups with drug manufacturing companies. The All Indian Origin Chemists & Distributors Limited (AIOCDL), the newly formed company with 5 lakh chemists across the country as members, is set to sign an exclusive tie-up with a Mumbai-based drug manufacturer. The deal is seen by many as AIOCDL’s strategic move to thwart the growth of retail pharmacy chains belonging to corporate giants in the country.
According to the deal, the manufacturer, Maneesh Pharma, will supply its drugs exclusively to AIOCDL, and not to other organised pharmaceutical retailers. Vinay Sapte, managing director, Maneesh Pharma, told FE, “We are considering an alliance with AIOCDL. In a couple of days, the model will be finalised.” In a few markets, the drugs will be supplied exclusively to AIOCDL, he added, without refusing to disclose further.
RTI Act effective against graft: U.N. report
The Right to Information Act 2005 was “one of the most progressive legislations” in the developing world for tackling corruption, according to a United Nations report released on Thursday.
India was one of the eight countries in Asia and the Pacific to enact such a legislation, the United Nations Development Report on “Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives – Accelerating Human Development in Asia and the Pacific” said, adding it was perhaps too soon to judge whether the legislation had worked throughout the region.
The process through which the Act was drafted and came into force in India illustrated the power of sustained pressure: when the government proposed to amend the law to exclude some administrative files and Cabinet papers from it, intense pressure from civil society organisations forced it to drop the plan, the report said. India’s law was particularly effective, the report said, because it specified information that must be disclosed on a proactive basis, including some that would help expose corruption.
Panel: unified cultural policy not desirable - IndianExpress.Com
The Government is likely to abandon its idea of framing a national culture policy with a majority of members of a 19-member committee — that was formed to look into the feasibility of such a proposition — expressing their views against it. The committee, which held a meeting on Wednesday, was unanimous in its opinion that a uniform cultural policy in a multi-cultural country like India was neither desirable nor feasible. Instead, the committee was of the view that there was a need to define a broad roadmap for effective management and administration of cultural institutions in the country.
“A national culture policy is sort of a misnomer. What the committee would be attempting at is to recommend a policy for public action in cultural institutions. This would not infringe upon the multi-cultural character of the country,” said Ashok Vajpayee, chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi, and one of the members of the committee.
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The Government is likely to abandon its idea of framing a national culture policy with a majority of members of a 19-member committee — that was formed to look into the feasibility of such a proposition — expressing their views against it. The committee, which held a meeting on Wednesday, was unanimous in its opinion that a uniform cultural policy in a multi-cultural country like India was neither desirable nor feasible. Instead, the committee was of the view that there was a need to define a broad roadmap for effective management and administration of cultural institutions in the country.“A national culture policy is sort of a misnomer. What the committee would be attempting at is to recommend a policy for public action in cultural institutions. This would not infringe upon the multi-cultural character of the country,” said Ashok Vajpayee, chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi, and one of the members of the committee.
Pharmaceutical firms opt for inlicensing to push sales
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Ranbaxy Laboratories, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Nicholas Piramal and other pharmaceutical companies are betting on inlicensing or strategic marketing tie-ups to help grow local sales after India banned copying of patented drugs.
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ndian drug makers are forging alliances with overseas companies such as CD Pharma, Gnosis SpA, Crawford Healthcare and Syrio Pharma to sell drugs for chronic and acute cases.
These companies are doing so because it fetches higher profits vis-a-vis investments and is less risky after the world's second most populous nation adopted drug patents in 2005.
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30 Fortune 100 firms, 10 Nobel winners by 2022: Prahalad
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ndia, Prahalad said, can have by 2022 the world's largest pool of trained manpower (500 million skilled workers), 30 companies in the Fortune 100 list, 10 per cent of world trade and 10 Nobel Prize winners. On the softer side, it can become the source for global innovation and a new moral voice for people around the world.
He spelt out his vision for India@75 at a five-star hotel in capital city, where over 700 members of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a third of them on video link, listened to him in rapt attention. Several bureaucrats too were seen in the audience.
Briefing a select group of journalists earlier in the morning, Prahalad said he had deliberately kept the means of getting there out so that the focus could be kept on the goals. But he said that even in the current circumstances the probability of meeting the targets was high.
Financial Express : Patent Trials
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With drugs worth $60 billion going off patents in the US pharma market by 2011, Indian firms known for their expertise in copycat making are moving away from patent offices and aggressively taking the litigation route to get exclusive marketing rights in different parts of the world. Indian majors like Dr Reddy’s Labs, Sun Pharma, Glenmark and Ranbaxy have already entered into patent litigation with US-based MNCs to get the major chunk of the revenue from the sales of blockbuster drugs (having sales over $1 billion) in the US.
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The number of Paragraph IV abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) submitted by Indian firms in the US has increased manifold in the last few years and what makes this more attractive is the chance for getting 180-day marketing exclusivity. “As part of building a large generics business through Glenmark Generics Limited (GGL), our Paragraph IV strategy would offer significant value,” says Glenn Saldanha, MD & CEO, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
According to the US FDA, a Paragraph IV certification begins a process in which the question of whether the listed patent is valid or will be infringed by the proposed generic product may be answered by the courts prior to the expiration of the patent. Paragraph III ANDAs can be submitted before the patent expiry, seeking marketing approval for the drug once the patent expires. Paragraph IV ANDA submission enables the applicant to prove that such patent is invalid or will not be infringed by the generic drug, for which approval is being sought.
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Pharma exports to miss government target
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Rupee appreciation has hit the pharma industry as exports for the financial year 2007-08 are estimated to rise a moderate 7 per cent against the targetted 30 per cent growth. While the volumes may have gone up manifold, the concern of a dip in pharma exports in value terms is rising. Besides rupee appreciation, the dent in exports due to pricing pressure in the US, where a lot of products have gone off patent recently, also affected the exports.
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Last year, pharmaceutical exports stood at $5.5 billion, according to Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (India) figures as against total exports of $125 billion, contributing around 5 per cent.
"The recession has also forced companies to offer high discounts in the US, which is the largest overseas market for India. The returns of the firms who are into value-added products are also affected," said Sunil Parekh, advisor to Crisil Solutions.
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