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What Protects The Intellectual Property Created By Artists Or Designers?

Intepat

With the introduction of the Designs Act in the year 2000, the Government of India included the advanced provision of safeguarding works with non-functional features in the domain of creative work. Industrial design patents give the person exclusive rights for a new ornamental design of an essential functional item.

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What Protects The Intellectual Property Created By Artists Or Designers?

Intepat

With the introduction of the Designs Act in the year 2000, the Government of India included the advanced provision of safeguarding works with non-functional features in the domain of creative work. Industrial design patents give the person exclusive rights for a new ornamental design of a basic functional item.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. The case serves as the springboard for a discussion on whether owning both rights may put the rightsholder at risk. Sundara Rajan devotes Chapter 11 to the overlap between moral and economic rights of authors.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

Eventually, Johnson and Johnson announced that it would no longer enforce their patents for Bedaquiline (brand name: Sirturo) which is used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 134 low- and middle-income countries. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

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