| Monday, February 18, 2008
Anna University, Coimbatore, receives R&D project
COIMBATORE: The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights of the
Anna University, Coimbatore, has received a project titled “Development
of Software for Trademark Verbal Similarities Search Engine
and Indian Trademark Database”, from the Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology.
According to a university release, the project estimated to
cost around Rs. 96.65 lakh will extend to two years. It will
develop a software package to find out verbal similarity between
the Trademarks based on phonological analogies, speech recognition,
pronunciation, spelling and conceptual closeness.
It will develop and deploy a new high-speed phonetic and speech
recognition search engine. It will also involve developing a
web-enabled search engine using Nice classification and one
that can be integrated with many databases commercially available
worldwide.
Vice-Chancellor R. Radhakrishnan will be the Project Investigator
and Director of Centre for Intellectual Property Rights S. Balasubramanian
will be the co-investigator.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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