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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This Act does not explicitly specify the inclusion or exclusion of personal names or surnames for trademark protection. The guiding norm in trademark law stipulates that a name or surname lacks eligibility for protection unless it carries distinctive characteristics.

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

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This case involved Sun Pharmaceuticals allegedly infringing Cipla’s copyright and registered trademark. Google argued that even when the keyword is a trademark, it is never used in a ‘trademark sense’, thereby the invisible use of trademarks, as keyword, failing to meet the threshold to constitute infringement.

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