The term ‘factors’ might be a little confusing to the layperson. Typically, the word is used in the sense of causative factors that lead to some result. In the financial world, however, factors are like bankers, a class of financiers. Factors buy future payments from present recipients and pay them a discounted sum as the [...]
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Trademark Law India
Indian Trademark Law has been codified in conformity with the International Trademark Law and is about to undergo an amendment to be at par International Trademark Law. Recently India has signed Madrid Protocol that will allow Foreign Applicants to file an International Application designating India like many countries around the globe e.g China. Though unlike [...]
Costs, Likelihood of Success, and Timing for a Trademark’s International Branding
A benefit of the international treaties and laws regulating trademark registrations is the flexibility they provide. In the same vein, it may be hard for a non expert to determine which of the filing alternatives are best suited for their business objectives in terms of timing, likelihood of obtaining trademark registrations, and cost. I provide [...]
Misfortune or Negligence – How Can you Tell the Difference?
However careful we are in our everyday lives, sooner or later we end up tripping, or stumbling, or falling and hurting ourselves. Accidents happen on a daily basis and although many are minor they can still result in pain and discomfort lingering long after the accident itself. But does this mean we should take action [...]
Get Patents & Reap Benefits
Today, we are living in the age of information technology & spreading our wings to every aspect of the society. We exchange our information (ideas, techniques, process, and product) to a target group but we never come to know this thing that someone is also targeting our information. So we are much prone to unintentionally [...]
Implementing Intellectual Asset Management Program for the Enterprise
Intellectual asset management is a structured and disciplined approach for turning ideas and knowledge into intellectual property and revenues. Implementing an intellectual asset management program requires a process driven approach. A process is “a sequence of activities that take an input and produce an output. In business, a process is supposed to add value to [...]
Cyber Law
Cyber law encompasses a wide variety of legal issues related to use of communications technology. It includes use of Internet as well as any other form of Computer or Digital Processing Devices. It includes intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction. As the law of Cyber Space, as envisioned by William Gibson in his [...]
Protecting your Website’s Content: Just Don’t Bother
The internet is the best place if you want to steal content. It makes it really easy to copy any information you see on webpages, whether it is text, images, media or .pdf files etc. A lot of web designers or webmasters are spending hours using various techniques to protect their webpage content. Well, the [...]