INTRODUCTION: Copyright can be defined as the term used to denote author’s right or the right of the creator of a particular artistic work or any literary work. According to common understanding, development of copyright law is credited with invention of printing machine in 1440 by Gutenberg in Germany. The printing press invention allowed the readers access […]
Trade secret can be defined as that data or information that is crucial for business to run and is not disclosed before the general public. Reasonable attempts being made to keep them confidential. This confidential information can include various proposals, databases of clients, devices, formulae or compilations, designs etc. Although definition of trade secret may […]
Trademark Infringement and Customs According to Section 11 of the Customs Act, 1962 import of goods infringing intellectual property rights into India is prohibited. Even though the term counterfeiting of trademarks is not defined under the Trademarks act, 1999, section 102 of the act relating to “falsifying and falsely applying trademarks” corresponds to the […]
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 […]