Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Against that background, this blog post provides some tentative musings on the impact of text-to-image generators on human artistic creativity by analysing recent US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works. In contrast, the CIPO has arguably adopted a more liberal attitude to computer-generated works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

On 19 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the appeal in the Lidl v Tesco case ( [2024] EWCA Civ 262 ), holding as follows. Accordingly, the Mark with Text was a protectable copyright work as an artistic work.

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MAY 6, 2024

Natco v Novartis 2024: Delhi High Court’s Novartis Moment & Indian Patent Law’s Déjà Vu Pic from here The Delhi High Court, on 24th April, passed an order that our patent law enthusiast readers will be very interested in! Read on for Shivam Kaushik’s take on this judgment. Bulgari S.P.A

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MARCH 11, 2024

Case Summaries Therelek Machines Private Limited vs Therelek Engineers Private Limited on 28 February, 2024 (Karnataka High Court) The petitioner challenged the rejection of its interim application under Section 124 of the Trade Marks Act, seeking a stay in a suit for trademark infringement.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Trade mark infringement – Lidl’s trade mark for the Lidl logo was infringed by Tesco’s Clubcard Price(s) signs, which took unfair advantage of Lidl’s reputation for low prices and damaged the distinctive character of Lidl’s logo. These are currently expected to be heard by September / October of 2024. Here, it was arguably both.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

While disposing the suit, the court directed that the new version of the film should be submitted to the Censor Board for approval and certified new version shall replace the current version before 15 th March 2024. The matter is listed for May 2024 next to consider whether the suit needs to be continued or not.

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