First meeting of Patent Agent Examination held on 24th November 2009 in the presence of Shri P.H.Kurian CGPDTM, Shri R.A.Acharya, Ex CGPDTM, Dr P.Ganguly CEO, Vision –IPR decided that:
1. Next Patent Agent examination shall be conducted on 23rd and viva-voce on 24th Jan 2010
2. Paper I, Patent Act and Rules, shall have 40% objectives questions of one mark each and 60 % descriptive questions.
3. Paper II will have
a. Drafting of specification from given claims and background
b. Drafting of claims from given specification
In each of this, one set each, shall be Science and Engineering and will be of 30 mark each. The rest shall be descriptive /interpretative questions. The viva-voce shall be based only on domain knowledge.
4. Question banks of Paper I may be created from the inputs of as many experts as possible and claims/specifications will be taken from database.
5. The examinations shall be conducted in appropriate educational institutions with sufficient rooms and not in the Patent Office.
Official circular available at: http://www.patentoffice.nic.in/iponew/PatentAgent_ExaminationBoard_24November2009.pdf
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Digital Economy Bill regarding File sharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups
The UK Govt. is planning to award itself powers to change copyright law almost at will, in expectation that new anti-peer-to-peer laws will drive infringement to other services such as Rapidshare and newsgroups.
The measure, which is the most severe contained in the Digital Economy Bill published yesterday, will be interpreted as a major victory for rights holder organisations. It will grant the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his successor's undprecedented control over civil enforcement of copyright.
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Dr.Tabrez Ahmad,
Associate Professor of Law,
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India,
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