Graphical User Interfaces and Design Protection
A rapid growth in the demand for virtual platforms to operate various meetings is evident today. One such platform during the ongoing pandemic is “JioMeet” […]
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Hangover the Morning After: Can Tattoos be Copyrighted?
The question of whether tattoos can be copyrighted has come up time and again in numerous cases in the past decade. However, it caught my […]
Turning Deaf: Musings on the phonetic similarity of trademarks in Indian Courts
Introduction Imagine a triangle consisting of a producer, a good or service and a consumer. At the centroid, lies a trademark which tells the consumer […]
Pitbull yells out a trademark for himself! How Trade marking sounds have come a long way.
The jurisprudence of trademark laws, all around the world, has categorized a sound mark as a non-conventional trademark. It is usually seen as a trade […]
WIPO PROOF: An online tamper-proof wallet to record trade secrets and other intellectual assets
On May 27, 2020, WIPO launched a service that would provide evidence of the existence of intellectual assets at a specific point in time. This […]
Fast track patenting in India: An overview of IPO-JPO Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program
Fast track patenting in India is slowly becoming a trend now. Starting with a first set of initiatives to fast track examinations of patent applications […]
Monkeying around with IP
We know that humans, as well as other legal entities, are entitled to claim proprietary rights over tangible as well as intangible things. They are […]
Stephanie Sinclair V. Mashable: An eyeopener for Instagram artists to take a re-look at their rights
It can without a doubt be stated that social media has become an inseparable part of our lives today. In Contemporary times, social media platforms […]
Competition Law versus Patent Law – The Monsanto Conundrum
Back in 2010, while reading about genetically modified cotton and Brinjals in a biology lecture, I became aware of Monsanto. Monsanto has been a pioneer […]
Can AI be Inventors under Patent Laws?
It’s 2020 and clearly it was anticipated that soon enough AI will take over the world. Alas! We are all sitting in our houses contributing […]
Finance art becomes another batch of students of school S. 101 failing Alice test
A Changing trend of the USPTO in rejecting patent applications in the domain of finance art units has become something of concern to US patent […]
What the IPR Game in the Gaming Industry Looks Like
Intellectual property, in its simplest sense, refers to the creations of the mind, i.e., inventions, literary and artistic works as well as symbols, names and […]
Are we ready for next-generation cars?
Technology leap has driven us to an era where we are witnessing things which were used to be just a hyped phrase. Especially if we […]
Trademark as a vehicle of social divide
It was Shakespeare who, through Romeo, had thrown caution the wind, and questioned the significance of a name, for a Rose, called as anything but […]
Public health lawfully outlaws the patent rights: a story of March-in rights!
My previous posts on the open-source innovation read with Doha style compulsory licensing and revocation in the public interest were exhaustive on the access to […]
Forever in our Memories, Legendary Gene Deitch (August 8, 1924 To April 16, 2020)
We’ll all die, the goal is not to live forever, The goal is to create something that will An Oscar Winning Illustrator, animator and Director […]