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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Many companies exploit renowned person identities without obtaining proper consent, leading intellectual property experts to advocate for the safeguarding of image rights through registration under Intellectual Property laws.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

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Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Case Summaries Calcutta High Court restrains the defendant from infringing the unregistered trademark of the respondent Case: Usco S.P.A.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. The case clarifies that the bar on arbitrability of trademark disputes is not an absolute one. Golden Tobacco Ltd [Delhi High Court].

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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No Injunction on the Film ‘Nyay: The Justice’: Is It Really Just?

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student at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Among the many grounds was the court’s refusal to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. I shall specifically be dealing with the contention around publicity rights. Nishtha is a 4th year B.A. Nishtha Gupta. Brief facts.

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