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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

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It provides an outline of the basic legal principles and how the IP system works. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

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Cardinals Of Intellectual Property Rights (Part- II)

IP and Legal Filings

This blog will consider different IPs, which are at growing stage. These include the IPs, like- Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Being at a nascent stage for IP compared globally, remarkable progress has been made by the nation.

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Journey Through “Novembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

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Kurian’s trail of transparency, Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, Corruption in IP Offices, Serial Crisis in India, the Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill, etc. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases. Missed anything? No worries, we got you!

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

SpicyIP

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 5-11)

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IPAB Issue Finally Comes to a Conclusion: Delhi HC Creates Specialist IP Division. Basheer’s arguments several years ago, when he advocated for specialised IP benches in High courts as opposed to an inept IPAB with limited powers. Justice Prabha Sridevan, who underscored the importance of public interest in IP matters.

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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

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As IP aficionados, many readers of this blog will have strong views about the proper scope of copyright law. Given the dispute’s employment law context, it received limited attention from IP academics ( with some exception ). The adherents of this new religion believe in IP”.