SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging. Citing Jaisuryas Retail Ventures v.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ct 1002, 1007 (2017). Although the copyright protection afforded to this design is a thin one that will protect its owner from only “virtually identical” copying, such a right is still highly valuable to many companies in the furniture, housewares, and other industrial design spaces. ” Star Athletica, LLC v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

The status of the right to privacy as a fundamental right was established with the Puttaswamy judgment in the year 2017 [2] , due to which the development of the right to publicity as an aspect of the right to privacy in India is at the nascent stage. It usually entails review, commentary, satire, comedy, criticism over the original work.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While the High Court’s decision essentially incorporated the new proposed section 19D contemplated by clause 20 of the Copyright Amendment Bill [B 13B-2017] into the Copyright Act, the ConCourt only addressed access to “published literary works, and artistic works as may be included in such literary works, in accessible format copies”. [Is

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

Introduction Any literally or artistic work that is original and creative i.e.; not copied from anywhere by the owner is protected under Copyright Act, 1957. With the progression in innovation of AI it is not an impractical notion to give acknowledgment to the work created by it.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Person A makes a copy of the movie on his phone and shares it with his friends. Going back to the same example again, the first point of infringement would be where A illegally copied the film. In this scenario, when infringement has become borderless, should the rule of lex loci protectionis be blanketly applied to all the cases?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Read Yogesh’s critique of the judgement in light of DHC’s OpenTV decision and the CRI 2017 Guidelines. Other Posts A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ image from here Do you enjoy your whiskey? Would you mix up these two labels: Officers Choice and Peace Maker?

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

8] Line between Copying and Inspiration Recently, VTuber Pekora’s look-alike was seen in an animated series without any consent from the creator or the company. [9] The law doesn’t specify 3D or 2D characters as copyrightable, but they can be covered under artistic works as per Section 13 of the Copyright Act. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Upon such request, and if deemed both urgent and necessary, the competent court possesses a wide range of non-exhaustive measures, including but not limited to the “ suspension of production, exhibition, publication or reproduction of the work, performance, sound recording or broadcast program ” (art. 179(3) ECL).

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

vs Prerna Rajpal Trading As The Amaris Flagship Store on 29 April, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The dispute is over copying substantial elements like placement, pattern, color combination of plaintiff’s Serpenti Ocean Treasure Necklace by the defendant’s Shield-It Necklace. Bulgari S.P.A

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But the Greek Copyright Office (OPI) in a circular issued in 2017 clearly but obviously erroneously states that the possession of TV or Radio sets creates a presumption of use/communication to the public of works protected by the relevant CMOs. 7 of Law 4481/2017).

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties. Deliberate copying was irrelevant. In a Rogers case, intentional copying alone cannot justify an inference of copying with intent to confuse, even if that can occur in cases that don’t “implicate” the First Amendment. “[I]n

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work. 103(a) (“protection for a work employing preexisting material in which copyright subsists does not extend to any part of the work in which such material has been used unlawfully.”).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2017, the Warhol Foundation sued Goldsmith and her agency for a declaratory judgment that the Prince Series works are non-infringing or, in the alternative, that they constitute a fair use of the Prince Photograph. 20] The Second Circuit reiterated its previous determination that the answer here is yes. NPG Records. [30]

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

PDF copy available. IP includes any creation of the mind, including inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs, and various forms of IP protection cover these different categories. For example, in 2017, battery supplier LG Chem sued Amperex Technology Ltd.

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