IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

Designs are advantageous assets that can be protected only if registered under the Designs Act, 2000. The renown it gains helps ameliorate your competitive stride in the market. Therefore, the Designs Act, of 2000 protects against such violations as well as safeguards the rights of a design proprietor. PROTECTION OF DESIGN.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 12, 2025

Why Businesses Consider a Merger or Acquisition Expansion:Acquiring a competitor can result in a increase in the companys existing market share while also eliminating the competition and acquiring their expertise with it. Economies of scope can arise from leveraging combined resources to develop new products or enter new markets.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On 15 December 2020, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act, DSA) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD). 17 CDSMD, and DSA rules on issues that Art.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 24, 2025

While actions against infringement of copyright or trademark are welcome, the same should not be at the cost of choking a free market or the rights of small businessmen and entrepreneurs to carry on with their business ( Vasundhara Majithia ). Intermediary liability is already addressed under Section 79 of the IT Act, 2000.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 8, 2025

A company called Pure Seed had obtained US Plant Variety Protection (PVP) certificates for a fescue grass variety called 'Seabreeze' in 2000, followed by its glyphosate-tolerant successor variety called 'Seabreeze GT' in 2007. However, the USPTO had failed to properly check the register of plant varieties. What went wrong?

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SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2022

The enactment of the Designs Act, 2000 saw this law change overnight to recognise prior publications from anywhere in the world. The Designs Act, 2000 not only resolved this issue in favour of Defendants but also executed a clean conceptual separation between cancellation and infringement.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 6, 2022

manufacturing experienced a substantial decline in employment from 2000 to 2010 due largely to the 2008 Great Recession but rebounded – until the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Louis, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States dropped from over 17 million in 2000 to just above 12 million in 2015. KCPullen@doc.gov.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Hasco asserted a likelihood of confusion with its earlier national Polish trade mark ‘NATURKAPS’, filed on 9 November 2000 and registered on 10 September 2004 for ‘pharmaceutical products’ in class 5. Hasco’s argument, based on the classification of ‘food supplements’ under Polish law in 2000, was considered irrelevant.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The decision considered what it means for "the product" in Article 3(a) to be protected by a marketing authorisation (see also IPKat: The SPC alphabet ). The marketing authorisation in the case specifically recited the active ingredient "safinamide".

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2000, Nestlé filed an application with the Swiss Trademark Office for registration of a 3D trade mark in class 30 for coffee, coffee extracts and coffee preparations. Quoting the CJEU, the Federal Supreme Court explained that trade mark law is an essential aspect of, and must contribute to, a competitively functioning free market.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 13, 2022

The Design Act, 2000 [“ the 2000 Act ”] provides protection to various aspects of the design in question, like the pattern, colours or even lines on the design. It would be remiss to fail to briefly discuss Section 2(c) of the 1957 Act which defines an “original artistic work” and how it is different from a “design” under the 2000 Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively. Likewise, IP marketing plays a pivotal role, markets are identified where usage of technology is exchanged or transferred by recognizing prospective stakeholders. link] Transferring Technology from Lab to Market.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 14, 2025

The eatery owners argued that they had been using the name Burger King since 1992, which was over two decades before Burger King US entered the Indian market in 2014. It becomes critical to ask whether prior use in the worldwide market suffices in such cases. Relying on Syed Mohideen v P.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

To address the market distortions and the music streaming ‘value gap’, the Government should introduce robust and legally enforceable obligations to normalise licensing arrangements for UGC-hosting services. Apple, on the other hand, maintained that safe harbour provisions create an “unlevel playing field” in favour of YouTube. Plot twist!

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 21, 2022

Industrial design is the process of designing articles (products, devices and objects) to attract customers and improve their marketability. To protect designs , it has to be registered under the Designs Act, 2000. Concerned with finalizing the product for the market. What is Industrial Design? Focuses on finding solutions.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 6, 2022

United Group BV began life in 2000 as a small cable company. It’s likely that United Media indirectly benefited from this operation but as a fully signed-up member, the company will be in a position to encourage further action against targets across its key markets – Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Greece and Bulgaria.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Online gaming intermediaries will lose their safe harbour protection under the Information Technology Act 2000 if the IT Rules 2021 are violated since online gaming platforms are now subject to the framework that applies to intermediaries. billion USD. It takes a generally light-handed approach and leans heavily toward self-regulation.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

However, these appeals were dismissed as the courts ruled that Manolo did not present sufficient evidence of adequate sales in mainland China prior to 2000. Resultantly, Manolo Blahnik has lost significant sales, as China is the fastest growing luxury market. China’s Trademark System.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Applicant markets KIST to reference a kiss." Opposer markets SUNKIST to reference the sun." Finally, the Board found the lack of evidence of actual confusion -- despite the fact that the parties have sold their carbonated sodas in the same geographic areas and through the same retailers since 2000 -- weighed against opposer.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Mergers and acquisitions have incredibly taken a sharp stride in the Indian as well as the global market in today’s time. The Indian market till 2000 witnessed some major mergers and acquisitions post that the global credit crisis took a blatant hit on many major economies of the world.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Open Access, which I think of as the sometimes costly process of making scholarly outputs free-to-read , has enjoyed a fascinating career since its formal articulation and inception around the year 2000 (with many experiments and precursors before). Back in 2000, no one knew where all this was going.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

crore (USD 5 million) for the extra marketing and advertising costs that Plaintiffs incurred to repair its damaged reputation. Singh, ruled in favour of the Plaintiffs awarding Rs 292.7 crore (USD 33.78 million) for lost royalties that the Plaintiffs would have earned had counterfeit goods not been sold on Amazon and Rs 43.32

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Intepat

APRIL 18, 2022

The report calls the period from 2000-to 2020 that of digital technologies. c) For the next 35 years till 2000, Computer and related innovation (“ ICTs ”) tripled and the sector represented 24% of all patents and showed an 8% annual growth rate. The transport sector grew twice its size in these 30 years.

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2022

Our beloved Merpel reminds you of the launch of an initiative to establish a " Repository of Non-English IP Titles " for titles published since 2000. The Repository will collect, on a country-by-country basis, information on IP books (including book series and collections with multiple editors) published in a language other than English.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But whether in early research, drug safety, or market access, the underlying knowledge challenges that arise when bringing a drug through the development pipeline are similar: an ever-expanding body of knowledge in the face of limited time and resources to synthesize, draw insights, and ultimately make decisions.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

As the number of companies are increasing in the domestic and international markets the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is also increasing. Metaverse is essentially a blessing for businesses that own trademarks because it offers a fruitful environment for inexpensively promoting and marketing trademarks.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 13, 2025

And this excessive taxation can also be seen as the infringement of 19(1)(g) and may also fail the test of reasonableness given in Ar. Innovation will suffer a lot and people will be left with very minimal choices.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The safest course of action would be to register jewellery designs under the Designs Act, 2000 if a jeweller intends to make more than fifty applications of a particular jewellery design. If the decision regarding the number of copies has not already been made, the designs should be filed for registration before marketing and sale.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 3, 2023

Allegations: Defendants market a dietary supplement product labeled “100% Wild Alaskan 1000 mg Fish Oil” whose label asserts that it “Contains Fish: Alaskan Walleye Pollock.” The Supplement Facts state that each serving of two 1000-milligram capsules contains 2000 milligrams of “Fish Oil” and 600 milligrams of “Omega-3 Fatty Acids.”

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Calls and opportunities Marketing, Website and Social Media Officer: part-time development opportunity The Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN) is looking to recruit a UK-based Marketing, Website and Social Media Officer, responsible for developing the IPAN brand and reputational capital in line with its corporate objectives (see [link] ).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

In this technologically advanced age, success or failure of a business depends heavily on the marketing strategies that have been adopted. A very common way of marketing a product is to have it advertised and endorsed by celebrities that the public holds in good opinion. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 20, 2021

It has marketed its software under the name “SmartSync” since 2004 and obtained a trademark for SmartSync in 2007. Ironhawk also argued that because Dropbox had previously attempted or explored acquiring it, that Dropbox itself recognized that Ironhawk had a potentially larger market. Commerce Ins. Agency, Inc., 3d 432, 445 (3d Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

As of 2019, the apparel market was valued at about 368 billion U.S More specifically, in India, the design act, 2000 protects designs that feature shapes, patterns, ornaments, or compositions of lines or colors applied to any article in two or three-dimensional forms. dollars in the USA.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The EU Directive on the Digital Single Market introduced two text and data mining (TDM) exceptions (for non-commercial and commercial purposes), which are supposed to facilitate use of copyright-protected content in ML processes. WIPO has so far had four sessions of their Conversation on AI and IP.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 15, 2024

According to a UN Report, most drugs currently in the market in Europe, North America, and Japan, have been made in public funded research institutions, which further licence these drugs to the industries for its commercial exploitation. Telecomm. & & Tech. 299 (2010); Hemphill, C. S., & Sampat, B.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

From 2000 to 2005, the department published 12 volumes in the Asian studies series, demonstrating the institute’s policy and dedication to Asia. Clearly outlined, it is probably one of the best of its kind on the market. Its existence is welcome and necessary in the current era, where languages are still obstacles.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2021

The European Union (EU) Court of Justice Advocate General, Saugmandsgaard ØE, recently published the long-awaited opinion on the action brought by the Republic of Poland against the contentious Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in Digital Single Market.

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