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Industrial Design under The Design Act, 2000

IP and Legal Filings

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. In the previous Act, there was a 2-year confidential period post registration, which prohibited taking inspection/certified copy of any entry in the records.

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Court of Appeal grapples with US v UK confidentiality in Autostore v Ocado without prejudice discussions

The IPKat

During the opening remarks of this meeting, Ocado’s solicitor stated that ‘this meeting was a continuation of the confidential and without prejudice discussions between Ocado and AutoStore and that any US law discussions were to be governed by rule 408 of the [US Federal] rules of evidence [FRE 408]. Ocado appealed.

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Misc. Docket 22-160: Is your (old) appeal on this list?

Patently-O

a)(1), “[a]fter five years following the end of all proceedings in this court, the court may direct the parties to show cause why confidential filings (except those protected by statute) should not be unsealed and made available to the public.” Out of the 12,225 appeals docketed between 2000 and 2011, 977 show up on this list (about 8%).

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Custodians Of Financial Data And Its Protection In Indian Framework : Banking Sector

IP and Legal Filings

Customers would have to rely on either the safeguards enshrined in the Information Technology Act, 2000, or the fragmented financial regulations in the absence of a comprehensive law similar to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. [ii]. 21, Acts of Parliament, 2000 (India). [ii] WHAT IS FINANCIAL DATA.

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Legality of Recording Phone Calls in India & Admissibility of Such Evidence Before the Court

IP and Legal Filings

US , [12] the Supreme Court held that a party can’t impose secrecy or confidentiality just by having a conversation on the telephone. 16] such evidence was called to be in breach of privacy, and the court rejected to admit such evidence and also imposed a penalty under Section 72 of IT Act 2000. [17] Sunil Mehta., [16] Pratap Singh v.

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The Establishment of the IP Division in Madras High Court: A Significant Step towards Efficient Resolution of IP Disputes

Selvam & Selvam Blog

Cases pertaining to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Plant Varieties, Designs, Semiconductor integrated circuit layout designs, Traditional Knowledge, and all rights under common law, if any, associated therewith; Cases relating to passing off, acts of unfair competition, disparagement, comparative advertising, etc.;

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IT`S NOT ONLY PATENTS: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING TO PROTECT INNOVATION

LexBlog IP

Protection of trade secrets is governed by Decision 486 of 2000, and the legal actions to enforce the rights arising therefrom, are contemplated in the Unfair Competition Law (Law 255 of 2996) as well as the Criminal Code, among others.

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