The Indian Patent Office granted 567 patents in the month of April 2007. The table below shows the top twelve companies that received patent grants. HLL tops the list with 19 patents, followed by Honda Giken and Intel with 13 and 11 patents respectively.

Brain League is offering consulting and training services on legal and business aspects of Open Source Software (OSS) to address the needs of IT companies. The services are provided by a team of experienced IP lawyers and software engineers having strong expertise in open source issues.

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The decision of the Supreme Court in this case has been much awaited as it had the potential to change the landscape of the obviousness analysis. In 1966, the Supreme Court had set forth the Graham Framework, which was intended as an objective analysis to aid in determining the obviousness of a patent claim.

Brain League is organizing an Intellectual Property Seminar on 15th June 2007 for IT/Software  professionals. The seminar deals with topics such as patent protection process, open source software, trade secrets and so on. The objective of the seminar is to teach certain IP skills necessary for an IT professional.

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 OSS Series,  A Primer on Open Source Software

Introduction to Copyright Law

The Copyright law protects ideas expressed on a tangible form.  Ideas by themselves do not get any protection; only the expression of the idea is protected under the copyright law. To get protection an idea should be expressed as literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, cinematographic or photographic work or a sound recording.

As a part of its endeavour towards spreading IP awareness, Brain League is offering a free online course on fundamentals of intellectual property for students and professionals. The course gives a basic understanding of the concept of Intellectual Property and explains the protection offered by different types of IP with the help of examples.

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