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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

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Google argued that even when the keyword is a trademark, it is never used in a ‘trademark sense’, thereby the invisible use of trademarks, as keyword, failing to meet the threshold to constitute infringement. Several petitions in the Madras High Court challenged the validity of rule 29(4) of the Copyright Rules, 2013.

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Right of Publicity Part 2

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Jaitley’s right and pronounced that any person may be restrained from using the names of popular or well-known celebrities, when the particular name is a well-known trademark as envisaged under the basic principles of trademark law and thatcelebrity is entitled to use his name for commercial purposes.

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

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T Series And Another vs M/S Dreamline Reality Movies on 22 February [Punjab and Haryana High Court] The case concerned the adaptation of late Jaswinder Kaurs biography into a cinematographic film and deals with interplay of copyright with personality rights. The judgement was passed by Justice B. Nagarathna and Justice Sanjay Karol.

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