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A Beneficial Amendment for MSMEs or SMEs in Patent (Amendment) rules 2021

The new patent amendment rules bring a beneficial change in the fee structure for small-scale industries. The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued notification of the Patent (amended) rules 2021. In brief, the amendment mainly talks about the changes in fee structure where the small entity has been included in the fee structure… Continue reading A Beneficial Amendment for MSMEs or SMEs in Patent (Amendment) rules 2021

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WEDEW

Water availability, as we all know, has been a grim issue for ages now. Everyone talks about it but only a few have bought a viable solution. One such sustainable solution is WEDEW (Wood-To-Energy Deployable Emergency Water), a technology developed by Skysource in collaboration with ALL Power Labs. They made a technology which produces fresh water from… Continue reading WEDEW

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Trademark fight over “COVISHIELD” vaccine

On 4th April 2021, a Nanded-based pharmaceutical and medicinal products company, Cutis Biotech (Plaintiff) filed for an interim injunction against SII, seeking to restrain them from using the trademark “COVISHIELD” or any other identical name for their Covid-19 vaccine. Cutis Biotech had applied for registration of trademark “COVISHIELD” on 29 April 2020 for vitamin and… Continue reading Trademark fight over “COVISHIELD” vaccine

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“Zero-Emission Tyres” by the Tyre Collective

The problem: Batteries and regenerative braking systems are an obvious place to cut emissions, but so are tyres. We all know tyres wear down but consequences are not taken into consideration. Electric vehicles (EV’s) will lower tailpipe emissions, but tyre wear is projected to increase since they are heavier than their gas counterparts because of… Continue reading “Zero-Emission Tyres” by the Tyre Collective