One year PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law - NLSIU

Before I begin this post, this is my mantra since the last few years when I have been exposed to this: I have a fondness for IP creation or Intellectual Property creation and this blog probably stands testimony to that fact! Which better place than to study IPR law from India’s topmost institute - National law school of India University (NLSIU).

I have written about this earlier too: http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/captive-product-units/

Blogging guidelines - my two cents

What are the important factors one needs to consider before one begins to blog:

1. First, get over this obsession of Google adsense. 99/100 bloggers I meet first think of making a quick buck on adsense rather than focus on quality of their blogs and its relevance towards the topic(s) chosen! This is really very disturbing statistics.

Will receive my print edition of Mint from tomorrow!

Looking forward to reading the Wall Street Journal from tomorrow! In addition, I will be able to compare the two competitors - Eco Times and Mint. I believe Mint already has a healthy subscription base of over 100000+ readers.

Here’s wishing good luck to Mint to take on Eco Times - after all - the newspaper industry is largely dominated by Eco Times and Times of India as market leaders enjoying almost a Monopoly status. New entrants like Mint should be able to displace them from this Monopoly status - which is ultimately good for us - the end readers and consumers!

Indian circus going out of business

Its a 130-year old industry. We have spent our childhood watching those trapeze artists and animals perform stunts to packed crowds. I have personally been to so many of those in my childhood with my parents. Shahrukh Khan once starred in a famous Circus teleserial during the beginning of his career.

The decline of this industry is apparent: In 2002, the Indian circus federation had 22 members and today has about 10 or 15 of them.

This erstwhile and magnificant/graceful business is almost shutting shop today.

Caveat Emptor: Guidelines for purchasing an apartment unit in India - due diligence to be carried out

One of the biggest issues one needs to factor in is to make all payments to the seller in plain cheque. That should be the right logical approach. This is easy on first sales where you buy a property directly from a reputed builder where you make payments by cheque and in instalments.

Second sales are invariably having this complication where cheque payments may not be accepted in entirety (its different if you buy directly from a builder as they accept money only in cheque) and this is where I felt there was a lacuna of information and therefore tried to fill in this gap with below due diligence/analysis.

Some of the principles used in Real Estate investing are highlighted below. These are from my own experiences in dealing with this tricky (and murky) world of business.

Research reports to come shortly - aka McKinseyQuarterly style

All our research reports would be in PDF format and we are going to do comprehensive consulting analysis for our readers on myriad topics especially on the business sectors.

All research reports would be made available at http://www.acc101.com

Watch that space for more.

BCCI and its monopolistic attitude

This has been spoken of in the past by the media so I will try to keep my post short.

What is a monopoly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

Land/flat hunt turns quite a challenge

It appears I can write a book on how to hunt for a property in Bangalore city - something we (my parents and I) have been hunting for the last 2 years - almost. It just got more complicated after all my previous posts on this very topic. I can vouch that Bangalore is definitely in a real estate bubble - how long would it last is not something I can speculate though! Wish I had a crystal ball to gaze at though!

http://www.propertydiscovery.com/newareas.php (Source: Propertydiscovery.com).

http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/land-hunt-in-bangalore-gets-worse/

EasyAuto.in - Bangalore’s solution to auto problems or is it?

Launched with much fanfare, this has already been reported to be heading into troubled waters. A Deccan Herald coverage (http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep92007/city2007090924339.asp) last weekend supplemented this fact that this service has few takers and its difficult to sustain its operations over the long run.

McLaren fined $100 million and stripped off their constructors points for 2007 season

This is interesting. Max Mosley agrees that justice has been done in the Ferrari F1 spying controversy.