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Indian Intellectual Property Office data shows a TM trend where 12% annual growth

in the number of applications for registering trademarks by Indian companies is

evident. An increasing number of Indian companies are registering their trademarks,

although the registration of trademark is not compulsory. Quite clearly, the practice is

helping Indian companies to get recognition and better protection for their valuable

intellectual property.

Year 2011 marked maximum number of trademark filings in Controller General of

Patents, Designs and Trademark department, India. If we talk about the Indian

region where maximum filings were made, Chennai region got the top slot. The

department received 43,000 applications in 2011 of which the Chennai region‟s share

was around 35%. It covers all southern states that had surpassed Delhi region in

receiving the maximum number of applications for getting patents in the past two

years.

Applications were mainly from sectors like electrical, electronics, pharmaceuticals

and biotech. During 2012-13, the trend continued and there was huge spurt in

number of applications received for registration of trademarks and subsequently their

number touched the 1.94 lakh mark.

Such spurt in filings may be partially attributed to the recent development in which

India became the 14th G-20 economy and the 90th country to be part of the Madrid

System, for the international registration of marks at World Intellectual. According to

a World Intellectual Property Indicators Report published by the World Intellectual

Property Organization (WIPO) in 2012, filing volume in India had surpassed that of

Brazil in 2006 and of Japan‟s and Korea‟s in 2011. Yet, India lags behind China who continues to lead the Asian countries with the

highest number of trademark applications. Spreading awareness on the benefits of Madrid system and IP portfolio management among

the industry and various stakeholders of India will surely further increase the filings in the country in coming years and also help in

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raising the falling Indian economy. It is high time that role of Intellectual Property management is realized by the Indian business

community that business growth will only enhance when IP portfolio is adequately manage.

The Madrid system is a streamlined, low cost and user friendly system that helps in protecting and managing trademark portfolio in

export markets. It allows India-based trademark owners to protect their mark in 89 countries plus the European Union‟s Community

Trade Mark (CTM) by filing one application in one language and by paying one set of fees.

Although, overall design patent awards are not increasing as against utility patents but utility patent filings are surging implying that

design patents are increasing at a good pace.

Korean smartphone maker Samsung has emerged as a surprising leader in design patent grants in past two years leaving behind Apple,

the king of design patent exploitation. Samsung was the leading grantee of design patents in 2012 and also topped the list in 2011.

Samsung suffered defeat against Apple over design patent infringement in 2012 but it has proved to be a far more aggressive design patent

applicant than Apple.

The automobile industry has also realized the same and is moving ahead in seeking protection for the physical shape and earning as many

design patents as possible. Companies like Honda and BMW are major players in design patents.

This was reported in Intellectual Property Owner‟s Association Annual Report that since past 12 months, the top 50 U.S. design patent

grantee companies for 2012 were collectively granted more than 150 patents than top 50 companies of 2011. As such, following number of

US design patents were granted to major players in smartphone and technology in 2012-

• Samsung -5500 design patents

• Microsoft – 2704 design patents

• Apple- 1136 design patents

It proves that large corporations are putting more trust in the emerging design protection system. Besides, they are serious in their

attempts to build and leverage unique designs through strategy to create true value.

Samsung Top Design Patent Grantee in US

Korean smartphone maker Samsung has emerged as a surprising leader in design patent

grants in past two years leaving behind Apple

The Apple vs. Samsung dispute taught the business world that “Design” is

increasingly important in unlocking value in technology. Consequently, scope of

design patents and their grants are on increase each year. It has been realized now

that the shape or outer appearance of a product is as defensible as the technology

behind it.

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The practical use of this technology ranges from implementation of tasks as simple as shopping or delivering local weather reports to

tech-buffs kind of stuff like real time video streaming, sharing or playing augmented reality games using world as the board. As this

technology could be used in the interactive voice-activated eyewear, Google Glass, Facebook, Twitter and some news organizations have

already made tailored applications for Glass. But it is available to others, like the developers and selected “explorers” at price of $1,500

for each eyewear. Google Glass was unveiled by Google recently during the Google I/O developer conference on May 17, 2013 in San

Francisco, California.

Foxconn declined to furnish any details of the transaction amount and only revealed that it pertained to a technology that related

directly to augmented reality, specifically the ability to superimpose a virtual image on a person‟s ”world view.” Thus, it is still unclear

that this technology is same as HUD display used in Google Glass, or is a true augmented reality design.

Foxconn has had a close working relationship with Apple but has also made concerted efforts to broaden its focus so as to be able to

work with a number of companies and even developing a unique product like a smartwatch. So, Foxconn and Google‟s deal does not

come as a total surprise and certainly is not a move against Apple. In fact, as the newly acquired patents use a technology in line with

Google Glass, probability is that Google is just protecting its own interests by buying this technology rather than competing with its

rival.

People at home, probably don‟t want any security on their phone, and so, swipe-to-unlock will be sufficient, but if they venture into an

unknown territory, then their device will demand a security code. This clearly implies that your device could automatically change the

level of “lockscreen security” on basis of your location. Furthermore, users could define type of security using this method. They could

Google & Foxconn deal: Buys Head-mounted

Real Time Augmented Technology for Google

Glass

GOOGLE Glass a wearable computer with an optical head-

mounted display

US tech giant Google has reportedly bought a number of

display patents from Foxconn whose parent company is

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry. It is Asia‟s main

supplier for Google‟s biggest rival Apple, particularly for

iPhones manufacturing. The patents relate to a head

mounted technology in line with Google Glass that permits

T E C H N O L O G Y

Google to Patent “Location-Based Security System” For

Mobile Devices

Google is going to patent, a “location-based security system” for use on mobile devices

that will serve to keep your phone safe in the future.

Google‟s advertising business is hugely supported by its location services and

to add to this, Google is going to patent, a “location-based security system”

for use on mobile devices that will serve to keep your phone safe in the future.

This system would cover all forms of “lockscreen security”- everything from

pins, patterns, face unlock or passwords and would definitely make accessing

phone more convenient for users besides denying unauthorized use.

The idea behind this new Google patent is pretty simple.



categorize places into “new”, “familiar” and “very familiar”. The patent, however, does not reveal that how it would do that exactly.

Probably, if a „threshold‟ amount of successful user authentications have taken place in a certain location, it would be marked as familiar

There is no denying that similar processes have been used in various apps dealing with phone; for instance, Motorola Moto X‟s option to

disable security when it was connected to a trusted Bluetooth device. So, there is definitely some prior art out there on which Google has

improvised on.The idea behind this new Google patent is practically useful to increase convenience in handling but it offers only limited

security. Nevertheless, it is nice as an optional feature.

The publication, titled “User Interface Contrast Filter,” reveals Apple‟s newly devised display adjustment tool with inherent potential to

differentiate multiple UI elements and alter their appearance with a minimal user input. Visual UIs available in the market are buttons,

sliders, menus and selection controls. These are overlaid on a background color and combine with interactive content display areas to

form the basic UI.

Apple notes that users make adjustments to the brightness or contrast settings that control the manner in which UI is displayed,

depending on environment, visibility or personal preference and they affect all UI elements equally while a user may want to change

only certain elements in a UI. Thus, instead of universal display settings, Apple proposes a system that can make intuitive changes to

multiple UI elements in a selective manner. This would allow visual UI‟s to be adjusted separately from content. The system can work

with automatic display settings and enhances visibility. Besides, the process may also save battery life in some cases and could

theoretically be introduced on third-party app developers.

Patrick O. Heynen, Michael P. Stern, Andrew Bryant, Marian E. Goldeen and William J. Feth as credited as inventors of this system.

In another development, yet another patent troll, Remote Locator Systems has accused Apple is infringing patent 5.548,637. It relates to

use of Apple‟s iOS features “Find my Friends” and “Find my iPhone.” According to an estimate, Patent Trolls (or NPE‟s) cost tech

companies $29 Billion and Apple has emerged as the top target of such companies.

Apple’s New Patent to Adjust/Change Multiple

UI Elements Settings A display adjustment system tool with ability to change User

Interface (UI) elements appearance

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent

application from Apple that hints that tech giant has evolved

a display adjustment system tool with ability to change User

Interface (UI) elements appearance and give millions of

mobile users respite from monotonous current universal

display settings.


Samsung Slams Erricson for Demanding Undue Compensation Read: http://ow.ly/opWRm Google Patented Scrooling Technology. Read: http://ow.ly/oq3Cj Singer Chubby Checker Sues HP. Read: http://ow.ly/oq3W2 Apple All Set to file TM for the Word “STARTUP” in Australia. Read: http://ow.ly/oq4lO Amazon Files Instant Video TM. Read: http://ow.ly/oq4HD



India-based chemical engineer Chitra Thiyagarajan has earned a patent for a machine (referred to as a pyro-plant) that converts waste

plastic (except PET bottles) into diesel-like fuel. Chitra has enabled use of waste plastic as a source of cheap as well as sustainable fuel

source with this patented machine.

Thiyagarajan has put in 3 years of R&D to devise this machine and applied for a patent in June 2013. It recently got final approval from

Indian Patent Office. Authorities had rigorously checked the machine for over 2 months and ensured its patentability. Chitra‟s mentor

Mr.C SM Sundaram is a retired St Xavier‟s College professor and her invention has also been approved by IIT Professor, S

Pushpavanam. The newly patented pyro-plant has a chamber in which plastic is heated in the absence of oxygen over chromium micro

band heaters that raises the temperature inside the chamber to 350-370°C. The gas so generated enters a different chamber with water

coolants coils on either side and then gets pumped into another compartment half-filled with water. The fuel so formed floats on the

surface and can be extracted. The fuel can also be stored. The non-soluble gas has to be quickly used. It is a useful alternative to LPG.

Pyro-plant is not expensive and takes just 3 hours to convert 1 kg of plastic into 800ml of diesel. A similar process has been developed in

China but this one is much more cost effective. A 5 kg unit costs only INR 75,000 and 25 Kg variant costs INR 3,00,000.

All commercially-available methods of scrubbing GHG‟s, from emissions use ammonia-derived liquid solution of water and amine that

contacts the stream, removing CO2 or other undesirable gases. Bara‟s patented system would not use water in the aqueous amine

solutions. In lieu, it will use “imidazoles” which are organic solvents with low vapor pressure or boiling point. This saves energy since

the solvent can be regenerated without spending large amount of energy on boiling water. As such, imidazoles give a lot of flexibility in

designing a solvent system to meet the process demands. Besides, this solvent system can capture the same or more amount of CO2

than MEA. All in all, imidazole-containing systems have promising chemical make-up for carrying out the process of CO2 stripping

from natural gas and post-combustion emissions such as those from coal-fired power plants. Another advantage of using imidazole is

that imidazole cores are already commercially available, and can even be synthesized in the lab. Thus, cost of capturing carbon will go

down if this process is used. This technology has been licensed to the clean tech company ION Engineering in Boulder, Colo., to further

develop this technology. Bara serves as a science adviser with the company.

L I F E S C I E N C E S

Indian Engineer Patents a Cost-Effective Machine That Convert Waste

Plastic into Fuel

Indian engineer earned a patent on a machine that converts waste plastic (except PET bottles)

into diesel-like fue.

New Method for Stripping Greenhouse Gases (GHG’s)

Patented by Jason E. Bara

Dr. Jason E. Bara has devised an innovative method to revolutionize the energy

sector for stripping greenhouse gases

Dr. Jason E. Bara of University of Alabama, USA is granted U.S. Patent No.

8,506,914 on Aug. 13, 2013.

He has devised an innovative method to revolutionize the energy sector for

stripping greenhouse gases (GHG‟s) such as carbon dioxide from industrial

emissions. The method is substantially cheaper and much more efficient

than existing methods.



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