Indian Patent Trends

Trends in Indian Patent publications – Top Applicants, Inventors & IPC Codes of the quarter

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) tops the applicants list by publishing more than 124 patents. The majority of the inventions fall under these classes:

• G06F 17/30 - Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions Information retrieval, Database structures
• H04L 29/06 - Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems characterized by a protocol
• F01K 15/00 - Adaptations of plants for special use
• A61K 31/00 - Medicinal preparations containing organic active ingredients
• G06G 9/00 - Methods or arrangements for reading or recognizing printed or written characters or for recognizing patterns, e.g. fingerprints.

Other top applicants, most active inventors and the most prominent IPC codes can also be viewed in this section. Click on ‘My MCPaIRS^TM ’and discover more interesting analysis of patent publication patterns in the first Quarter of 2018.

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• Google and Amazon patent creepy SPY systems that use cameras and sensors in your home to know everything from your mood to your medical conditions

Google has filed a patent application for a system that used its smart speakers and camera to spy on a user's mood or medical condition. The devices could listen to the 'volume of the user's voice, detected breathing rate, crying'. They could also detect a user's coughing and sneezing. Also, this patent application reveals a device that could 'recognize a T-shirt on a floor of the user's closet' with Will Smith's face. It could then combine this with a browser history that shows searches for Mr. Smith.

This would allow Google to 'provide a movie recommendation that displays, 'You seem to like Will Smith. His new movie is playing in a theatre near you.' And in a separate patent application, Google describes a device that would give advice to parents for 'areas of improvement' such as spending more time with their children at supper.

Amazon has filed a patent that describes how a 'voice sniffer' algorithm could be used on various devices to analyze audio in real-time. It would pick up trigger words such as 'hate' or 'love' and used it to build up a profile of users based on their likes and dislikes.




• Wal-Mart patents hint at future where its drones tend the farms

Wal-Mart Inc's patent filings hint that it may see a future where farmers use its drones to not only spot crop problems but selectively apply chemicals or even disperse pollen to bring shoppers the freshest and cheapest food possible. The world's largest retailer applied for six patents last year on drones that aim to prevent damage to crops, control pest attacks on farms and cross-pollinate plants, according to U.S. Patents and Trademark Office documents that were made public last week and seen by Reuters.




• Washington University sues WARF over kidney drug patents

Washington University claimed that WARF breached the agreement by undervaluing the patent when it was first licensed because WARF’s valuation was misleading. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, Washington University was unable to make their own valuation, so they claimed that WARF intentionally undervalued the original price. WARF has been involved a few recent legal battles over licensing. Last summer, Apple was forced to pay over $500 million after a judge found that the tech company infringed on WARF patents used in iPhones. Both WARF and UW-Madison declined to comment because the litigation is ongoing.