An acronym is an abbreviation made by taking the first or the initial letters of the composite words/names. For example, the acronym ‘BCI’ stands for Bar Council of India and ‘LIC’ stands for Life Insurance Corporation of India. Acronyms play an important role in branding and marketing of businesses and other commercial entities. Keeping in […]
A Trade Mark is a form of intellectual property that may comprise a visual symbol, icon, image or expression which is used to identify goods or services which are provided by a specific source. These marks set apart those goods or services from those offered by other entities. Trademarks can be owned by an individual, […]
A Primer on Cyber Squatting – By Raunaq Bali An introduction to Cyber Squatting Cyber-squatting is a form of IP infringement which involves registration or usage of an internet domain name which belongs to someone else or is highly similar to a pre-existing domain name of someone else. This is done to profit from the […]
INTRODUCTION Trademark is one of the recognized intellectual property rights in India as well internationally. IPR refers to rights over properties or assets developed by human mind or using man’s intellect. These assets add value to mankind are of economic value. Hence, these deserve to be owned rightfully and to be protected from getting plagiarized […]
Introduction To comply with the TRIPS Agreement, India passed the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 more than 20 years ago. The TRIPS Agreement established rules for the protection of integrated circuit layout designs and semiconductors. The SICLD Act was created to adhere to TRIPS Agreement Section 6, which established rules for the protection […]
IP Valuation – The Income Method – by Sejal Chaturvedi INTRODUCTION Intellectual property rights are those rights that give people right over their unique, original, and exclusive creation and innovation. These creations range from the logo of a company’s new technology to designs of products, formulations of products, literary work to the layout of the […]
Advertisements are the primary means of driving up sales and profits for most companies. An original and unique ad campaign holds the potential to reward companies in unimaginable ways, cementing their brand image in the minds of the public. Advertisements, therefore, are of significant commercial value. Since ads are also an original expression of a […]
Youtube and Copyright – by Sejal Chaturvedi INTRODUCTION The internet has given the world a new platform to communicate, interact, act, express, and even entertainment. Today across nations, through the internet everyone is in one way or the other a creator. Hence, any post any status, or any thought that you share on social media […]
Utility Models work similarly to Patents in protecting new technological inventions, and offer exclusive rights for a limited period of time to stop unauthorised third parties from using the protected inventions for commercial gain. Utility Models are also known as “utility innovations”, “short-term Patents”, “second-class Patents”, and “innovation Patents.” Utility Models are often seen to […]
A computer program is a set of instructions called source code written in human readable language that is then converted to a machine readable format, usually but not exclusively in the form called object code. The object code in turn commands a computer to carry out certain functions as instructed by the creator of the […]