General Motors has secured an Indian patent on a hybrid powertrain control system for vehicles. The patent rights are currently assigned to Daimler AG, Chrysler LLC and others. For more information, click here.

Taking into consideration the Delhi High court’s order staying the abandonment orders passed by the Trademarks Office, the Registrar of Trademarks notified that the abandonment orders are being kept in abeyance. The notice can be accessed here.

The order of the Delhi High Court allows the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to attend to complaints on abuse of dominance of patent rights. The court’s order is with reference to a complaint filed by Micromax and Intex with the CCI against Ericsson. For more information, click here.

Google’s new invention might transform emergency medical services in the near future. The patent unveils a drone with medical support implements such as defibrillators, inhalers, life- saving drugs etc. For more information, click here.

The historic patent of Wright brothers titled “Flying machine” was found 36 years after it went missing from the US National Archives. For more information on this interesting news, please click here.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotions (DIPP) Secretary, Mr. Ramesh Abhishek said that the time taken for examining patent applications would be expedited from the current five-to-seven years to 18 months by March 2018. For more on this promising news, please click here.

Prometheus brings you some freaky patents for the lazybones in continuation of our series on freaky patents. Do you have any ideas like these patented ideas?!?! Come to Prometheus to get them patented. One can never say which idea will be commercially successful.

Dillon Moore, a student from Sanborn Central School has invented “Rockmaster”, a tractor attachment that can be used to easily remove big boulders from the ground. For more information, click here.

MediciNova, a US biopharmaceutical company has been granted a US patent for its new drugs targeting hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipoproteinemia. FDA’ has granted fast track designation and Orphan-drug designation for one of these new drugs. For more information, click here.

After Indian Government’s clarification last year that Monsanto’s patent rights over non-hybrid Bt cotton seeds no longer exist, public sector institutes and private seed companies are getting ready to launch non-hybrid Bt cotton seeds (as reported here).