The Law and Technology Society and the Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to announce the ‘The NLSIU IPR-Technology Law Essay Competition’. Who can apply? This is open to all undergraduate students, postgraduate students and research scholars from all streams. Topics: Disclosure requirements in […]
David Li, a sophomore at New Hartford Senior High School, is a champion. In both seventh and eighth grade, Li won the state championship in the MATHCounts competition for sixth- through eighth-graders. Li said he participated “just to test my ability to do math quickly.” At 8 a.m. today, students from schools throughout the region […]
The Trump administration raised the stakes in its trade dispute with China, threatening 10 percent tariffs on a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, sending stocks lower and prompting Beijing to warn it would be forced to respond. China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday it was “shocked” and would complain to the World […]
In a little over three years, Lisa Su, 48, President and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has changed the fortunes of the semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. When she took over AMD in 2014, the company was bleeding and reported losses of $403 million in […]
Last year, India’s leading food delivery app had made headlines like ‘Swiggy lost Rs 1.5 for every Re 1 it earned [in FY17]’. But the Bangalore-based startup shouldered on, and its perseverance has paid off big time – yesterday it raised USD 100 million in its Series F funding from Naspers, a global internet and […]
How do you see the trade war playing out? A: Dr. Ira Kalish: There is a high degree of uncertainty about it. It’s not clear how far we’ll go and what the specific causes will be. There’s evidence that businesses in the US and Europe are putting investments, particularly in the global supply chain, on […]
On May 22, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the $66 billion mega-merger of German chemical and pharma major Bayer AG and the US seed giant Monsanto. As the merged entity will have intellectual property rights (IPR)-linked control, including patent protection, over more than 90 per cent of the genetically modified (GM) traits across […]
The number of patents granted by India jumped 50 per cent to 12,387 in 2017 as compared to 8,248 granted in the previous year, according to data released by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). India granted 86 per cent (10,675) of the total patents to foreigners as compared to 14 per cent (1,712) […]
