International Patent Filings: USA 53,521, China 6,089, India 766 According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, the U.S. continues to lead international patent filings by a large margin. However patents arising from developing countries have risen rapidly particularly from China. Among developing countries India falls behind Korea and China in such patent filings. But the [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Gunjan
As President Obama takes office, there is still gloom about the economy and about America’s role in the world. At least that is what Reuters reports today in a survey of 22,000 people in 22 countries, conducted for it by Ipsos. Respondents from 20 countries gave bad marks to the United States in foreign relations [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
(headline is tongue-in-cheek, friends) As a child, I was always fascinated by elephants. Growing up in India, we would see one or two in our alley where we had a giant peepul tree and a mahout would come by once or twice year to feed his animal. When the Apollo Circus came to town, the [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Gunjan
The British movie set in Mumbai, SlumDog Millionaire, won four Golden Globe awards yesterday including Best Film and Best Director. The music for the movie was composed by the “Mozart of Madras”, A.R. Rahman, who is now a Muslim but was born to Hindu parents and named A.S. Dileep Kumar until his conversion to Islam. [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Gunjan
If you deal with India, you must recognize the enormous cultural importance to the game of cricket. Even though field hockey is the national sport, cricket governs the Indian DNA. Cricket followed the British Empire to Australia, to Sri Lanka, to Pakistan and to Australia and New Zealand of course. Lately India’s team has been [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Gunjan
