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A rather ridiculous gap
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Trademark disputes are the humdrum of intellectual property (IP) litigation. Important, no doubt, for the parties involved but hardly the stuff to get you and me excited. What all we have missed in recent times?
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A year in the life of a law
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2013
Electrical and electronic goods have made their presence ubiquitous. Right from the morning toast to the laptop during the day and the television in the evening, their presence cuts across time, space and socio-economic strata. It is a testimony to the spread of electronic goods that the snake charmer in the stereotypical image of the Indian society has a mobile phone.
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Fashion sans catwalk
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2012
A Brazilian designer has taken fashion from the high pedestal of catwalk to the reality of slums to demonstrate that styles, trends and fads are born in Rio’s poor neighbourhoods.
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Waste to wealth
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2012
FRUIT PEEL is not such a waste after all; it can be used to make gold and silver nanoparticles.
A study has shown that discarded pomegranate peel can be used to synthesise nanoparticles of the precious metals. These are ultra-small particles ranging from 1-100 nanometres (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) and find extensive use in biomedical and electronic devices.
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