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Supreme People’s Court of China issues first comprehensively revised judicial interpretation of anti-unfair competition law since 2007

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There was no JI on the AUCL until 2007. JI 2020) was a minor one with only one change to the JI 2007, i.e., replacing one of the legislation’s grounds from the General Principles of the Civil Law to the Civil Code of China (See the IPKat post on the Civil Code of China here ). The subsequent JI (i.e.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

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The plaintiff, SSPL, had filed a lawsuit against the defendant NTC in the Bombay High Court, alleging Copyright and Trademark Infringement. Under Section 2(c) of The Copyright Act of 1957 , the label is an original artistic work. When SSPL was incorporated in 2004, SK Oil Industries had assigned it the label’s copyright.

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Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

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Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Thus, as a new year approaches, those in the field of copyright look to see which works will expire at the end of the year. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

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[ii] American media personality Paris Hilton used her now trademarked catchphrase “That’s Hot” in reality TV show The Simple Life routinely. She trademarked the term in February 2007, and since then, it has become her “signature catchphrase.” are generally not protected by copyright law. In Reebok India v.

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Right of Publicity Part 2

IP and Legal Filings

Protection Of Publicity Right As A Well-Known Trademark Although, publicity rights do not have any statutory protection per se in the Indian Law, but publicity rights in some form are protected by The Trade Marks Act, 1999 and The Copyright Act, 1957. A performer, in relation to a performance in which he appears or engages.

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Who’s Laughing Now? EUIPO Board of Appeal Rules that Banksy Can Keep his Trademark and Anonymity Too

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On November 7, 2018, Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication body, filed an EU trademark claim on behalf of the artist for Laugh Now. Typically, artists protect their artwork using only copyright law. However, artists are required to reveal their identity when claiming copyright infringement.

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Beyond the Big Screen: The Legal Odyssey of Film Titles in India

IP and Legal Filings

1] The Copyright Act protects certain types of works, which are included in Section 13. 13 (1) states that original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works as well as cinematograph films and sound recordings are protected by copyright. regarding the copyright for the film “De Dhakka.”

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