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Industrial Design under The Design Act, 2000

IP and Legal Filings

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. In the previous Act, there was a 2-year confidential period post registration, which prohibited taking inspection/certified copy of any entry in the records.

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Choosing the Right Intellectual Property Protection

IIPRD

Key Features: Registration of design is mandatory under the Designs Act, 2000. Key Features: Registration is mandatory under the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 for protection against infringement. For example, the shape of Coco-Cola bottle is registered as an industrial design.

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Court of Appeal grapples with US v UK confidentiality in Autostore v Ocado without prejudice discussions

The IPKat

During the opening remarks of this meeting, Ocado’s solicitor stated that ‘this meeting was a continuation of the confidential and without prejudice discussions between Ocado and AutoStore and that any US law discussions were to be governed by rule 408 of the [US Federal] rules of evidence [FRE 408]. Ocado appealed.

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Kevin Kruse Cleared of Plagiarism Though Questions Remain

Plagiarism Today

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. The allegations came from Philip Magness , a conservative academic and a long-time critic of Kruse and his work.

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Custodians Of Financial Data And Its Protection In Indian Framework : Banking Sector

IP and Legal Filings

Customers would have to rely on either the safeguards enshrined in the Information Technology Act, 2000, or the fragmented financial regulations in the absence of a comprehensive law similar to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. [ii]. 21, Acts of Parliament, 2000 (India). [ii] WHAT IS FINANCIAL DATA.

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Legality of Recording Phone Calls in India & Admissibility of Such Evidence Before the Court

IP and Legal Filings

US , [12] the Supreme Court held that a party can’t impose secrecy or confidentiality just by having a conversation on the telephone. 16] such evidence was called to be in breach of privacy, and the court rejected to admit such evidence and also imposed a penalty under Section 72 of IT Act 2000. [17] Sunil Mehta., [16] Pratap Singh v.

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Misc. Docket 22-160: Is your (old) appeal on this list?

Patently-O

a)(1), “[a]fter five years following the end of all proceedings in this court, the court may direct the parties to show cause why confidential filings (except those protected by statute) should not be unsealed and made available to the public.” Out of the 12,225 appeals docketed between 2000 and 2011, 977 show up on this list (about 8%).