{"id":145389,"date":"2021-11-08T18:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=145389"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:39:14","slug":"india-moves-to-patent-the-over-century-old-logos-of-darjeelings-toy-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-moves-to-patent-the-over-century-old-logos-of-darjeelings-toy-train\/","title":{"rendered":"India moves to patent the over century-old logos of Darjeeling\u2019s \u2018Toy Train\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has registered the logos of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) as its intellectual property. This means that the use of these logos anywhere in the world will now require written permission from India and the payment of a fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Darjeeling Himalayan Railway<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> known as the <\/span><b>DHR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or the <\/span><b>Toy Train<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a narrow-gauge railway built between 1879 and 1881.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Route:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The railway runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in West Bengal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>UNESCO World Heritage<\/b> <b>Site:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 1999. UNESCO declared the DHR a World Heritage Site. Two more railway lines (Nilgiri and Kalka-Shimla) were later added and the site became known as one of the mountain railways of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b><b>India moves to patent the over century-old logos of Darjeeling\u2019s Toy Train<\/b><b>\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 8th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India has registered the logos of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) as its intellectual property. This means that the use of these logos anywhere in the world will now require written permission from India and the payment of a fee. About Darjeeling Himalayan Railway,\u00a0 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-moves-to-patent-the-over-century-old-logos-of-darjeelings-toy-train\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India moves to patent the over century-old logos of Darjeeling\u2019s \u2018Toy Train\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704731539},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}