2023 Litigation Personality Rights 
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 5, 2025
1] And since, the creator, consumer and subject of the content are distinctly different-the potential lack of empathy or misapprehension by the consumers towards the subject, based on the creators potrayal, necessitate a discussion of the subjects privacy and personality rights.
SpicyIP
AUGUST 26, 2024
However, its specific emphasis on protecting certain elements of the whole scheme of copyrighted content, such as fictional characters and the distinctive personas they embody, has been a focal point, contributing substantially to the discourse surrounding the ever-expanding ambit of copyrightability as well as personality rights.
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SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Highlight of the Week Comments on the Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023 Image by rawpixel.com on Freepix Comments pertaining to transparency and on substantive proposals within the draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023, submitted to the Ministry of Commerce. What’s the best way forward? Roshan Santhalia shares his perspective.
The IPKat
MAY 29, 2023
This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). With a focus on EU and US approaches to the issue, Musker suggests arguments that may be useful to litigants in similar situations.
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 30, 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We have also included a list of other notable IP developments of 2023. The Court delineated instances like parody and satire where free speech in the context of well-known persons may be protected.
SpicyIP
MAY 20, 2024
Reconceptualizing Trademark Protection in the Digital Age: A Proposal for Reform in Response to Google Ads’ Policy- Part I Offering a critique of the 2023 DHC and Supreme Court decision in the Google Ad words cases, we are pleased to bring to our readers a two part guest post by Malak Sheth. Read on to know more. The Peppy Stores & Ors.
SpicyIP
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
In the third part of his three part post on personality rights, Akshat discusses the real implications of granting broad personality rights to celebrities. Akshat is a practicing litigator working at Saikrishna and Associates. He did his LLM from Berkeley Law in 2023 specialising in IP and Tech law.
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