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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR: Tipping the Scales of Patent Law? Part I

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The Report focuses on reviewing the working of the Patents Act since its 2005 amendment that brought the Indian legislation in compliance with the TRIPS Agreement. A significant portion of the Report is dedicated to suggesting changes to the Patents Act, albeit without much justification on why these changes are needed.

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Informal innovation: The re-emergence of ‘informal’ washing machines

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In fact, a very similar ‘invention’ was made by Remya Jose, a 10 th grade school student from rural Kerala, in the early 2000s. They may not qualify as ‘inventions’ under the high standards of patent law but they are innovations nonetheless and ones that can go a long way in making positive societal changes.

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Moot Court: Aka Spinning Class at the Law School

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We do a moot court competition every year in my basic patent law course at the University of Missouri. Mad Dogg was the originator of the indoor Spinning market back in the early 1990s (it owns the registered TM on SPINNING and SPINNER). by Dennis Crouch. The students just submitted opening briefs.

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Ethical Infantilism in the Age of Technological Advancement

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The past 60 years have continued to reveal astonishing discoveries and invention. Andreessen’s “market economy is a discovery machine,” but Andreessen does not even address King’s internal human world. by Dennis Crouch Martin Luther King Jr. Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. Andreessen.

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National IPR Policy : An Analysis

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Typically, they give the creator the only, time-limited right to use his or her invention and creation. [i] iii] The value of IP will rise as a result of commercialization when it is evaluated for marketing purposes. But patenting research will make it hard for others to access.