Archive for 2021

Claims are the important part of a patent application that define the scope of protection that can be granted to a patent. Among different types of claims we find the mention of ‘product by process’ claims. These claims are generally used to define the non obvious and novel characteristics of product that are linked to […]

DEFINING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: According to the definition of World Intellectual Property Organization Traditional knowledge is: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, Indigenous heritage, customary heritage rights. Tradition based knowledge having basis in transmission of knowledge from one generation to other. This tradition based knowledge brings covers a variety of knowledge such as agricultural, scientific, ecological, technical, bio […]

The 2017 Trademarks Rules provide for cancellation forms to be lodged Brands, logos, and other artistic design and images have all been associated with the title “trademark” in the past. But it doesn’t end there, people might be amazed to know that sounds can be used as a trademark as well.   Corporations are upping their […]

Companies, individuals, and other entities can utilise the Trademark law to protect their labels, logos, emblems etc from being used by others by registering them. While the registration protects the trademarks, they are subject to revocation for a variety of reasons. The principle of trademark revocation can be regarded as a method to have a previously […]

Several decades ago, the richest men in the world were the owners of oil fields which generally did not mean that they had worked hard for it, but they had inherited from their ancestors. Fortunately, the richest people in the world today i.e., the founders of all the top companies such as Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, […]

A person is only allowed to get one patent for one innovation. This is still the practise because if this principle didn’t exist, a single inventor may have obtained many patents on a single innovation. This would result in the invention having a clear monopoly. However, it is not the goal of patent legislation around […]

More than 1.5 billion learners have had their educations disrupted since the worldwide lock-down started. As a result, online courses quickly became the standard to fill the void left by a global epidemic in the provision of education. The majority of schools and institutions around the world now use online learning. Despite its benefits, online […]

According to the Copyright Act, a work of joint authorship is one generated by the collaboration and cooperation of more than one author whereby each author’s effort is equal to the other author’s contribution. In India, a copyright law stipulates that an author is a person who creates a work that can be authored and […]

Paparazzi are freelance/ independent photographers who take random or candid pictures of celebrities/high profile people, generally, while they go about their daily routine, and sell such photographs to media houses/newspapers/magazines[1] or exploit it commercially in any other manner, to make a living. A photograph is considered to be an artistic work[2] protectable under the copyrights regime in […]

Intellectual Property Rights are strictly territorial in nature. So, if a creator wishes to register their intellectual property across the world, they would have to register in every country individually. There is no worldwide protection for intellectual property.  To facilitate the worldwide registration of intellectual property, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has introduced various […]