Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Design Rights. 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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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This IP protection ensures that other designers, whether direct competitors or producers of knock-off jewelry or imitation jewelry, do not ruin their reputation or copy their designs so as to reduce the value of their jewelry and lose out on potential sales. Image Source: Freepic]. Position of Jewelry Protection in India.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

As a result, the regulations governing the right of priority apply. Based on a regular application first submitted in any of the contractual statuses, the applicant may apply for design protection in other contracting states within a six-month period which starts from filing the first application in India.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 9, 2022

A design’s designer, creator, or artisan can apply for design registration to safeguard their work from others who would use the same design on their products without authorization. Because designs they made or designed by artists or specialists, designs necessitate innovation.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission. This protection prevents others from making, using, selling, or importing the patented invention without permission.

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More Than Your Mark

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Patents are meant to cover new, useful, and non-obvious inventions (utility patents) and new and non-obvious designs (design patents). Additionally, all patents have a limited life span: twenty years from the earliest effective filing date of a utility patent and fifteen years from the issuance of a design patent.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Though the deadline for sharing these comments passed on October 5 and the government is presently working on finalizing the Rules, we received a guest post underlining the need to regulate the menace caused by dark patterns and its interaction with intellectual property rights.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 12, 2021

Several modern-day remedies were enacted to reduce the risk that IP owners would otherwise be able to recover only nominal damages—reasonable royalties for patents; statutory damages for © infringement; disgorgement of total profits for infringement of design patents. Repatriation of any copies for violation.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 13, 2022

In the fashion industry, there are a few product categories that have long been covered by patent protection, including athletic footwear and base layers or undergarments. Another subcategory of patents called “DESIGN PATENTS” protects the adornment and adornment of practical objects.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that the Chinese government prohibits the transaction of virtual currencies, the Chinese market and users had to change this translation to avoid referring to crypto currencies as that could make NFTs illegal. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. Article 10.1

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

That can have problems, but a whole bunch of marks that are extraordinarily narrow/cast no shadow and are only going to be applied against identical copying doesn’t necessarily create a terrible system, especially under conditions of congestion. Others have noted a shift of the costs of private enforcement to public/government.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

If your product has unique aesthetic features that are nonfunctional, file a design patent application. When the novelty of your concept includes a combination of functional and nonfunctional features, it may make sense to file both utility and design patents. See utility patent costs here and design patent costs here.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that the Chinese government prohibits the transaction of virtual currencies, the Chinese market and users had to change this translation to avoid referring to crypto currencies as that could make NFTs illegal. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. Article 10.1

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The court clarified that for this defence, enshrined u/s 19 and 22(3), to work, “ the lack of novelty or originality has to be seen as on the date when the design was registered. Check out the post for more details. KTTADI and KHADI are prima facie similar, rules Delhi High Court.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

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. HULM Entertainment v.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

RT: I would say lots of courts in © also try to reduce merger to meaning that you can do anything but copy verbatim, which is a narrowing that many courts in TM don’t bother with, though some variants of Rogers v. Grimaldi are trending in that direction.] Might address overlapping rights, as well as concerns about failure to function.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

PDF copy available. But as more players enter the market and obtain patent protection for their innovations, IP disputes among competitors are heating up. Figure 1: Battery Patent Filings: CPC Class H01M 1. 20 although such technologies may face additional hurdles related to the prohibition on patenting abstract ideas.

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