GIIP is inviting applications for the 2nd batch of the 8-week (full-time) Executive Post Graduate program in Patent Protection, Enforcement and Management. The program curriculum has been designed with the sole objective of training professionals, with technical background, to help them find employment as a Patent Engineer / Associate / Attorney with a leading Corporate, MNC, R&D Institution, KPO or Law firm of the Country. It includes up-to-date education in US, European and Indian patent laws and procedures and is designed and delivered by outstanding professionals with rich teaching, research, industry and consulting experience.

240 hours of custom course curriculum will cover technical, legal and management aspects of patents & patent process. The focus is to develop skills in areas, such as, Prior Art / Patent Searches, Analysis, Landscaping, Claims & Specification Drafting, Filing and Prosecution. The pedagogy of the program is to train participants using case studies and illustrations and each session will be conducted by a practitioner or domain expert and will be highly interactive and hands-on. The assessment methodology includes classroom assignments, group discussions and final examination. The participants will help drastically reduce the cost and time that an Organization will spend on making them productive vis-à-vis new hires in the IP cell.
The program will be offered to select thirty (30) candidates who match GIIP’s selection criteria. The selection criteria are merit based, followed by personal interview & written test (optional).

On completion of the program successfully, all participants will be provided placement that matches their profile and career plan. All participants of the previous batch have been placed with one of the leading MNC, KPO and Law Firm. Over 75% of the participants, of previous batch, got placed even before the completion of the program.
Aspiring candidate should be Graduate (science, engineering and other technical degrees) with minimum 1 year of work experience, Post-graduate (science, engineering and other technical degrees) Legal Professionals (LL.B. & LL.M.) with technical background

About (GIIP)
Global Institute of Intellectual Property is a leading Intellectual Property (IP) training company, co-headquartered at New Delhi, India and San Jose, USA. The company has been set up by a team of successful entrepreneurs, IP attorneys, patent agents and practitioners. GIIP provides training services covering IP generation, protection, commercialization and management.

GIIP recognizes the growing demand of patent and related services globally and also the growing need for qualified & trained patent professionals, agents and IP litigation attorneys in India.

To address this need, GIIP has put together unique international-standard courses that are conducted by Indian and international IP practitioners, to provide comprehensive knowledge about different type of Intellectual Property (IP), related protection systems & their significance, infringement issues and strategies for commercialization and management. GIIP’s aim is to train science, engineering, law, graduates, post-graduates, PhDs, working professionals and the corporate teams to cater to the growing need of the global, knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy. GIIP, a pioneer in IP education, has been involved in Capacity Building for IP & patent professionals and has provided excellent placements to all its students. Some of the organizations with whom GIIP has an enduring recruiting and alumni relationship are: Amarchand & Mangaldas, Anand & Anand, K&S Partners, Remfry & Sagar, Panacea Biotech, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Honeywell, GE, Infosys, HCL,TCS, Siemens, Philiphs, Evalueserve, Altacit Global, Lexadigm, CPA Global, Ripple IP, Inventurus, Ius-Juris, IPpro Inc

Global Institute of Intellectual property Pvt Ltd.
Website: http://www.giipinfo.com
Executive Name: Mr. Nakul / Mr. Sameer
Address: Global Institute of Intellectual property pvt ltd
45 1st Floor, Okhla Indu. area phase -III
NEW DELHI,Delhi,India 110020
Email Address: admissions@giipinfo.com, sameer@giipinfo.com
Telephone: 011-30884000, 9310255571

San Mateo, CA – Red Herring announced its Top 100 Asia Award in recognition of the leading private companies from Asia, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

Red Herring’s Top 100 Asia list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Asia to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Vanuston Intelligence embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Vanuston Intelligence should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Asia.

GIIP is pleased to announce a two day training program (29th & 30th November, 2010) on “Patent prosecution strategies (US Perspective)”, the trainer for the said program is Mr. Joseph E Root. The program covers an introduction to Patent Structure, Amendment Strategy, Prosecution History Estoppels and other Prosecution issues.

About Joseph E. Root
Mr. JosephE.Root is an attorney with 30 years experience developing, protecting, and exploiting patent portfolios. He serves as Chief Patent Counsel to UnitedLex Corp. a leader in legal process facilitation, with operations in the US and India, and he is the founder of QualiPat, LLC, where he provides improved patent drafting and technical writing training. Previously, he was Senior IP Counsel to SAP AG, a worldwide leader in enterprise management software headquartered in Germany.

About GIIP
GIIP, a pioneer in IP education, has been involved in capacity building for IP & patent professionals for the past 4 years and has trained more than 150 professionals in the PG Diploma and Certificate courses and over 1000 Corporate employees.

GIIP has IITD, National Law University Delhi, Ministry of MSME, CSIR, University of Washington, USA as training partners and has earned the reputation of a leader in the field of IP education & training. GIIP also has a very strong association with the Industry and has conducted corporate training for companies, such as, Siemens, Philips, Infosys, HCL, TVS Motors, Evalueserve, CSIR, CDAC, Alstom, RIL, EIL, Ranbaxy, Panacea Biotech, Sanofi Aventis, Dabur, K&S Partners, etc.

New Innovation Advances and Simplifies Wi-Fi Security by Allowing Encryption Keys to be Automatically Generated for Each Wireless User and Installed on End User Devices

SUNNYVALE, CA/ Bangalore, India – May 24, 2010 – Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that it has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for an innovation that radically simplifies the configuration, administration and strength of wireless network security.  This patent is one of nearly two dozen patents granted to Ruckus with dozens more pending approval.

The new technique, commonly known as Dynamic Pre-Shared Key (PSK), effectively eliminates tedious and time-consuming manual installation of encryption keys, passphrases or user credentials needed to securely access a wireless network. Dynamic PSK changes this model by dynamically generating strong, unique security keys for each authenticated user, automatically installing these encryption keys on end user devices with little or no human intervention.

With the explosive growth of Wi-Fi networks around the world, organizations have struggled with how to streamline the complexity and cost of implementing robust wireless security. Many companies have used a passphrase that must be shared among many users and manually entered into client devices. If this “pre-shared key” becomes known or stolen it must be changed for all users and manually re-entered into every client device.

A popular alternative to the pre-shared key approach is an elaborate security framework (eg. 802.1X) that requires information, such as unique certificates or supplicants, to be installed on every user device.  Deploying such systems requires a high level of technical expertise as well as ongoing technical support for users.

International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 amid Global Economic Downturn

February 9, 2010 / IndiaPRLine / — International patent filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fell by 4.5% in 2009 with sharper than average declines experienced by some industrialized countries and growth in a number of East Asian countries.  Provisional data indicates that 155,900 [1] (annex 1) international patent applications were filed in 2009 as compared to the nearly 164,000 applications filed in 2008.

“The decline in PCT filings is not as sharp as originally anticipated – last year’s results bring us back to just under 2007 levels, when 159,886 international applications were filed,” said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. “Interestingly, the rate of decline in international filings is lower than that experienced in some national contexts.  This is an indication of a broad recognition that it makes good business sense, whatever the economic conditions, to continue to protect commercially valuable technologies internationally.”

International patent filings in a number of East Asian countries continued to enjoy positive growth in spite of the challenging global economic conditions.  Japan, the second largest user of the PCT, experienced a 3.6% rate of growth with 29,827 applications; the Republic of Korea (ROK), ranked fourth largest user of the system, experienced 2.1% growth with 8,066 applications; and China became the fifth largest PCT user with a strong growth rate of 29.7%, representing some 7,946 international applications.

International patent filings experienced a sharper than average decline in a number of industrialized countries.  For example, the filing rate dropped by 11.4% in the USA and by 11.2% in Germany in 2009.  Declines were also experienced in the United Kingdom (-3.5%), Switzerland (-1.6%), Sweden (-11.3%), Italy (-5.8%), Canada (-11.7%), Finland (-2.2%), Australia (-7.5%) and Israel (-17.2%).

The United States of America (USA) maintained its top ranking (annex 2), filing just under a third of all international applications in 2009 (45,790), followed by Japan (+3.6%, 29,827 applications), Germany (-11.2% or 16,736 applications), ROK (+2.1%, 8,066 applications), China (29.7%, 7,946 applications), France (+1.6%, 7166 applications), United Kingdom (-3.5% or 5,320 applications), the Netherlands (+3.0% or 4,471 applications), Switzerland (-1.6% or 3,688 applications) and Sweden    (-11.3% or 3,667 applications).

Top Applicants [2] (Annex 3):

Panasonic [3] Corporation (Japan) returned to the top spot in the list of PCT applicants, nudging Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. (China) into second place.  Panasonic Corporation had 1,891 PCT applications published in 2009, China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. had 1,847, followed by Robert Bosch GMBH (Germany, 1586 applications), Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Netherlands, 1,295 applications) and Qualcomm Incorporated (USA, 1280 applications).  Four Japanese companies, Panasonic Corporation (ranked 1st), NEC Corporation (ranked 8th), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 9th) and Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 10th) featured in the list of top 10 largest filers.

The University of California accounted for the largest number of applications published in the category of educational institutions.  Most top-filing universities, however, experienced declines in the number of international patent filings in 2009.

Developing Countries:

The largest number of international applications received from developing countries in 2009 came from the Republic of Korea (8,066) and China (7,946) followed by India (761), Singapore (594), Brazil (480), South Africa (389), Turkey (371), Malaysia, (218), Mexico (185) and Barbados (96).

Developing countries make up over 78% of the membership of the PCT, representing 112 of the 142 countries that have signed up to the treaty and accounted for 14% of the total number of filings (with China and ROK accounting for 10%).

“In implementing the WIPO Development Agenda, WIPO is working very closely with member states to develop and roll-out projects that will enable all countries to reap the benefits of innovation and the knowledge economy” said Mr. Gurry.  “In this context, maximizing participation in the PCT is a key priority.  Membership of the PCT offers an opportunity for countries to bring their national patenting processes in line with international standards helping to create a more attractive investment environment.  It further offers local companies a cost-effective means of obtaining patent protection in multiple countries” he added.

Fields of Technology:

Declines and advances in PCT filings varied by technology area (annex 4).  The greatest declines related to computer technology (12,560 applications, down 10.6% on 2008); pharmaceuticals (12,200 applications, down 8.0% on 2008) and medical technology (12,091 applications, down 5.9% on 2008).  The largest growth rates were experienced in micro-structural and nano-technology (+10.2%), semiconductors (+10%) and thermal processes and apparatus (+ 7.2%).

The main fields of technology in which PCT applications are published are broken down according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) – a classification system designed to facilitate the retrieval of technical information found in patent documents worldwide.

Evolution of the PCT:

PCT operations are under constant review to ensure that the system continues to deliver value added services to users.  The system, first launched in 1978, is designed specifically to promote effective information sharing among patent offices, to avoid duplication of work and to facilitate access to valuable patent information. According to WIPO’s Program and Budget for 2010/11, the Organization’s objective is “to maintain and reinforce the PCT as the central node and work sharing tool of the international system and the preferred route for obtaining international patent protection.”

WIPO and other patent offices have continually sought to streamline, modernize and enhance PCT operations to generate efficiency gains and to better serve the business community.  As a consequence, some 80% of all PCT applications are now filed fully or partially in electronic format.

Other Developments:

In 2009, WIPO‘s PATENTSCOPE® search service, which currently hosts data on more than 1.6 million international patent applications filed under the PCT, was further enhanced to include patent data collections of eight patent offices – African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), Cuba, Israel, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa and Vietnam – making it possible to conduct high-quality, detailed and free-of-charge searches of the patent information of these offices.   Further enhancements of this data search service are anticipated in 2010.  WIPO provides technical assistance to offices to assist them in the digitization and dissemination of their patent data.  This technical support is part of the Organization’s commitment to supporting the development of a fully integrated global IP infrastructure and to increasing participation by developing and least developed countries in the benefits of the knowledge economy.

Impact of PCT Decline on WIPO’s Budget:

WIPO is a largely self-funding agency, drawing 95% of its income from services to the private sector.  The PCT is one of WIPO’s core income generating areas responsible for some 75% of the Organization’s revenue.  Since the onset of the global financial crisis, WIPO has closely monitored use of its fee-paying services and adopted prudent financial management and a range of cost-cutting measures.   The Organization expects to report a positive result overall for the 2008/09 biennium.  “This is a very positive result and reflects the seriousness with which we have taken the financial crisis,” Mr. Gurry observed.  “We will continue to monitor the situation and are hopeful that the PCT will return to positive growth in the near future.”

Background:

The PCT offers inventors and industry an advantageous route for obtaining patent protection internationally.  By filing one “international” patent application under the PCT, protection of an invention can be sought simultaneously in each of a large number of countries.  Both applicants and patent offices of PCT member states benefit from the uniform formality requirements, the international search and preliminary examination reports, and the centralized international publication provided by the PCT system.  The national patent granting procedure and the related expenses are postponed, in the majority of cases, by up to 18 months (or even longer in the case of some offices) as compared with the traditional patent system.  By this time, the applicant will have received important value-added information concerning the likelihood of obtaining patent protection as well as potential commercial interest in that invention.

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The offending company was requesting payment for a service which in fact had no value. WIPO was pleased to cooperate with the Florida authorities in this case. During the trial, a WIPO PCT expert provided testimony about the misleading nature of the invitations and the harm suffered by PCT applicants.

WIPO has consistently warned users of its international filing and registration services – which facilitate the process of protecting patents, trademarks and designs in multiple countries – about the existence of these deceptive practices.

In recent months, WIPO has witnessed a general rise in Internet scams involving various fraudulent schemes implying association with WIPO including fake offers of employment at WIPO, training courses and e-mail prize awards. Many of these scams request detailed information and/or money, in connection with supposed registration fees, hotel reservations, employment opportunities, prizes or awards. They sometimes carry the WIPO logo, a photograph of the WIPO Director General and originate from, or refer to, e-mail addresses that resemble those of WIPO or the United Nations. Recipients are warned to exercise vigilance and not to send any money or any personal or professional information, including bank account details, in response to them. Any such cases should be reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action and, when it relates to WIPO international filing and registration services, to the appropriate WIPO sector for its information and action. Recipients of mailings which make reference to offers of WIPO employment, etc., may also contact WIPO’s Human Resources Management Department directly at +41 22 338 91 11 if there is any doubt about the authenticity of such requests.

Last week’s judgment in Florida is a promising step toward curbing this fraudulent and deceptive practice.

For further information, please contact the Media Relations Section at WIPO:

Tel: (+41 22) – 338 81 61 or 338 95 47
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