IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

The personality rights in India are generally enforced in the context of Intellectual Property Laws. Using someone else’s identity without their consent violates both their personality rights as well as their right to privacy. Union of India, (2017) 10 SCC 1. [3] Ammini Amma and Ors., 1] Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf v.

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Personality Rights Fair Use Privacy Intellectual Property Law 82

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

In 2017, he met the first defendant, a high-ranking executive in an international food-industry company. The third defendant was licensed to produce and market the disputed foods and spices under its own name and at its own expense, paying a fixed fee to the plaintiff for each individual product sold. Emphasis added.)

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Intellectual Property Moral Rights Related Rights Art 52

JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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Copyright Infringement Copyright Intellectual Property Blogging 98

Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Instead, Google Books was found to support the marketing of books by giving them increased public exposure.

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Fair Use Copyright Moral Rights Copyright Law 133

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The defendant in that case had offered adapters for sale which enabled Nintendo games, that had been produced by third parties in circumvention of copy protection measures and downloaded from the internet, to be used on the Nintendo games console. Additional fees could also be applied due to the failure to credit the author by name.

Contracts 98

Contracts Copyright Law Cease and Desist 98

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Asst Controller of Patents and Designs , (passed on May 15) the Court meandered through the legislative history of Section 3(k) of the Patents Act and observed that there is a lack of clarity on the meaning of “technical effect” and “contribution” under the present 2017 CRI guidelines used by the Patent Office. Meticulous Market Research Pvt.

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IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 112

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2022

petition (at 5 ), “Respondent VIP Products LLC copied Jack Daniel’s marks and trade dress to make a dog toy, ‘Bad Spaniels,’ that imitates a Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottle while adding poop humor.” Petition at page 5 (quoting Memorandum Opinion, copy at Appendix, page 18a ). ’ Robert D.

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Fair Use Trademark Moral Rights Law 52