Need for Better Intellectual Property Protection of Software in Nigeria
From the control of various machines such as aircrafts, pacemakers, and other medical devices to the movie and video game industry, it is safe to […]
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PV Sindhu and interplay of moment marketing, and IP rights
Introduction Indian athletes have earned seven medals for the nation in the recent Olympics through their perseverance, thereby making the entire nation proud. India bagged […]
IPR Olympiad 2.0- ISERDIndia
India’s First and Unique National IPR Olympiad – IPR Olympiad 2.0 ISERDIndia Analytics LLP will be organizing IPR Olympiad 2.0. The Olympiad will be organized […]
Do you know why “Market Survey” is important in trademark?
UNDERSTANDING DISTINCTIVENESS The distinctiveness of a trademark is of utmost importance as it makes the trademark unique and allows to differentiate the goods and/or services […]
Third Hands-on Training: – Research Methods in Intellectual Property Rights
The workshop aims to impart training for properly conducting research, and analyses the results of empirical study to support the findings in IPR policy research. […]
Budweiser says cheers after Delhi High Court Rules in its favour
In today’s world of technology, a major part of our lives are lives are spent virtually via social media. Social media is no longer just […]
Art, Artificial Intelligence and Indispensable Governance
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing – Marc Chagall Relation between Art and Law ‘ART’- this […]
Prohibited Trademarks: What words and terms could lead to denial of your Trademark registration?
Thinking of a new innovative business model? A new start-up or product name that could set you apart from the crowd of the ever-growing additions […]
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 […]
Leeching as a mode of Trademark Infringement
The Rationale behind Trademark Protection Just as how humans are identified by their names, the ideas materialized by humans deserve to be identified by a […]
Geographical Indication (GI) Tags of Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh is also known as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists and geographically it is the largest amongst the […]
Basics of SEP in light of the recent German court’s decision
I have earlier researched, discussed and talked about Standard Essential Patents (SEP), however, I have never penned down my thoughts on this topic until now! […]
Geographical Indication (GI) Tags of Karnataka
Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India, bordered by the Arabian Sea coastline to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to […]
Using IPR as collateral: Business Continuity in Post-Covid Landscape
I. Introduction:The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown open dilemmatic questions to various business houses quizzing them about their survival, expansion plans and business continuity. The pandemic […]
Failure to obtain foreign filing permit in India – illegality or irregularity?
A very interesting question was recently put across to a wide audience group. The questioner sought inputs on whether an applicant based out of India […]
Public disclosure of the invention is safer than a secret use: Loopholes in the patent law
Secret use of an invention before filing a patent application could amount to public use and such public use of the invention would be beyond […]
Stripping Away Abstraction to find Adaptation
From Lord of the Rings to Life of Pi to Shawshank Redemption, we have all time and again enjoyed these movies that were wonderful adaptations […]
The pecuniary jurisdiction of courts in IPR disputes
Mr. Nosy Parker is an artist who creates interesting posters at his leisure. Recently, through one of the groups on facebook, he saw an attractive […]
Trademark Incapacity Doctrine or Primary significance test: Which favors Generic mark to be recognized as trademark?
The principal purpose of a trademark is to act as a ‘source signifier’ and not ‘product signifier’. A mark qualifies as a trademark when a […]
Copyright exception related to marriage procession: A clarification from the Copyright Office
A piecemeal Public notice from the Copyright Office, Government of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry [DIPP] notified on August 27, 2019, though a little […]