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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

The book consists of 21 chapters, each of which addresses a distinct pair of IP rights, where IP is given a broad swathe of meaning. Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. In Chapter 5, Robert Harrison focuses on the interactions between patents and utility models.

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

SpicyIP

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Controller of Patents where the Court emphasised the requirement of the plurality of invention in divisional applications and held that plurality should be disclosed in the claims.

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