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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

When an inventor is granted exclusive rights over their inventions for a specific period of time, it provides a return on their investment in terms of time, resources and capital. The idea that a specific invention will allow the inventor to reap benefits has a direct effect on incentivising inventors to create and invent more.

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Patentability Search of Software in India

IP and Legal Filings

A patent is an intellectual property right granted by a government to the inventor, to protect their invention and allow the fullest commercial exploitation of the patented invention. The process of getting an invention Patent starts with Patentability Search, its also known as Novelty Search or Prior Art Search.

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Are Yoga Poses Copyrightable?

IP and Legal Filings

While nobody knows who invented Yoga Asanas, the Yoga Sutras compiled by the Indian sage Patanjali are considered to be one of the earliest organized resources on Yoga Asanas. So, it is extremely difficult to exactly determine when or by whom any Yoga Asana was invented. Evolation Yoga, LLC (2012). of India, L.P.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law in the UAE

IP and Legal Filings

However, with the publication on 23 October 2012 of UAE Federal Law No. 4 of 2012 Concerning Regulation of Competition all businesses with operations in the UAE or supplying goods and services to the UAE market will have to ensure that they focus on and comply with the provisions of this new law. With the EUR1.47

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Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets

IP and Legal Filings

Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain. A part of TK is exposed for patent review whereas the rest is kept undisclosed. With protecting their TK as trade secrets, the community at aim as perpetual ownership.

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INTERNET AND COPYRIGHT

IIPRD

After the term of protection expires, the copyrighted work is out there in the public domain and the rights of the author terminate. COPYRIGHT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2012 : The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 inserted Section 65A within the Copyright Act, 1957, wherein protection of technological measures has been provided.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

The Defendant had earlier rejected Appellant’s mark ‘Brazzers’ on the ground that the latter could not justify its proposed use since 2012 and that similar marks are registered for similar goods. Controller of Patents and Designs ( pdf ), was decided by the Delhi High Court and deals with issues pertaining to prior art and inventive step.

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