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The global space economy is currently valued at USD 360 billion, with India accounting for only 2% of its share. The past couple of decades have witnessed an increased interest by other nations to pro...
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03 Jun2023In the pre-independent India, an Act called Indian Patent and Design Act (IPD Act, 1911) was enacted which during the post-independent period amended and renamed as Indian Patent Act, 1970 and Design ...
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03 Jun2023The term "intellectual property" relates to the defence of mental innovations. Owners of such property are granted special rights through a legal framework, which may be exploited for acclai...
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26 May2023INTRODUCTION “Advertising is an instrument in the hands of the people who use it. If evil men use advertising for base purposes, then evil can result. If honest men use advertising to sell an...
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15 May2023The practice of borrowing scenes, stories, photoshoots, and action scenes from Hollywood movies has become widespread in the Indian film industry, often under the guise of "inspiration." How...
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10 May2023At the heart of this issue is a potato known as the FC5 potato (registered in US as FL2027). Compared to other types, the FC5 variety, has a 5% lower moisture content. This variety is said to be bette...
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The rejection of a patent by the patent office is a stigma on the inventor who toils hard to bring his invention to reality after spending days of laborious research and experiments. When reject...
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18 Apr2023One cannot deny that this is the age of social media. It is a powerful and easy to access platform for anyone to publish their intellectual content. Individual content creators as well as corporations...
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13 Apr2023While deciding prior use disputes, courts in India have relied on substantial evidence by any claimant of such prior use that can prove that they were in fact the first users of a trademark. In practi...
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08 Apr2023A bill[1] was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate that looked forward to bringing back patent eligibility for genetic material and overturning previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions with potentially...
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03 Apr2023The world has seen a boom in Globalization in the last 3-4 decades. Globalization has impacted every aspect of people’s lives, regardless of which country they belong to. Developing countries li...
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The Rajya Sabha Parliamentary Committee on Intellectual Property noted in its 161st Report that it is not satisfactory for intellectual property to be used as collateral in financing transactions. The...
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16 Mar2023Artificial Intelligence or AI is the intelligence that is produced by machines. AI has become an indelible part of our lives. Our daily life is characterized by the voice of AI like Siri waking us up ...
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11 Mar2023Since the creation of the new IP Division in the Delhi High Court, the interpretation of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 (the “Act”) is gaining momentum, and dark and ambiguous corners of leg...
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06 Mar2023In 2017, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was introduced as a destination-based consumption tax subsuming in itself, the erstwhile taxes like sales tax, service tax, excise etc. under the new regime, ...
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06 Mar2023The Federal Court in the case of Crash Dummy Movie vs Mattel Inc [601 F.3d 1387, 1391 (Fed. Cir. 2010)] ruled in favour of the defendant, stating that although it has not used the mark “Crash Du...
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It is imperative to provide an opportunity to the patent applicant to amend an application for a patent or a complete specification or any document relating thereto to meet the objection raised by the...
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Given the advancement in technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated inventions are deemed to becoming more common. All usage of AI whether as a convolutional neural network to screen cancer or...
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15 Feb2023The Office of the Controller General Patents, Designs and Trademarks, India issued two public notices dated February 06, 2023 (https://search.ipindia.gov.in/IPOJournal/Journal/Trademark), to deal with...
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10 Feb2023A trademark and the product associated with can develop a trans-border reputation when they go beyond the territorial restrictions of the area and become well-known across the border or elsewhere as a...