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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

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She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. Nishtha emphasises that in determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the Court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.

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Analysis Of Domain Name Disputes In India

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Image Sources : Shutterstock] Legal rights in domain names can be derived from these sources: registration of the name as a trademark ; prolonged use of the name for trading; or the biological name of a person. 3] AIR 2004 SC 3540. [4] 1] (1999) 78 DLT 285. [2] 2] 1996 PTC(16) 142. [3] 4] (2011) 181 DLT 716.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2024

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2024 has been an explosive year for IP developments in India, with more IP divisions coming up in different High Courts, an increasing number of IP registrations and an overall higher degree of attention on IP issues in the country.

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