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Choosing the Right Intellectual Property Protection

IIPRD

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. For example, the Tata Nanos rear-engine design and lightweight body structure is patented by Tata Motors. For example, the shape of Coco-Cola bottle is registered as an industrial design.

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Copyrightability Of Designer Clothes And Costumes

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction An artist’s ideas, be it for a renowned painting, sculpture, novel, technological design, jewelryor fashion are his own. They must not be used by anyone other than the artist himself. However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. What Is Copyright?

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Industrial Design under The Design Act, 2000

IP and Legal Filings

The Designs Act, 2000 (“the Act”), is a complete code in itself and protection under it is totally statutory in nature. It protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. Designs are registered in different classes as per the Locarno Agreement. These classes are mainly function oriented.

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[Guest Post] Things go belly-up for Aldi in Australia as baby food packaging found to constitute copyright infringement

The IPKat

The brands (hereafter Bellies) were licensed to Every Bite Counts Pty Ltd ("EBC"), including a range of Puffs products. EBC licensed the nine bright and colourful artistic works and used them on various food products including biscuits, puffs and fiddlesticks. This satisfied the requirement for a causal connection.

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Fonts & Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? 

SpicyIP

Typeface’ refers to the particular design of letters, numbers, marks and symbols. This post only deals with copyrightability of fonts from artistic work perspective and does not explore the copyrightability of fonts as code or literary works. Before we begin, let me lay down the glossary for this post.

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Traditional Tattoos on the Red Carpet: Continuing the Conversation of Collective Ownership

IPilogue

These events point to two prevalent issues within the current legal framework: First, that current intellectual property laws do not properly acknowledge collective ownership over shared culture within Indigenous communities and second, whether tattoo designs have the potential to be protected through copyright laws. Of note, in DRG Inc.

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

The current generation of AI image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are designed to take a text description or prompt from a user and generate an image that matches the prompt. What is AI image generation software?