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Sports and Intellectual Property Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

With the greater increase of various leagues such as the IPL in cricket, or the NBA in basketball, various teams are formed by various individuals to assert a title in trademarks and copyrights, amongst other forms of IP so that profit can be maximised. Intellectual property, inherently, can be sold, licensed or marketed.

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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

SpicyIP

We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! Like previous years, we kept the topic selection open to participants asking them to choose any topic they wanted so long as it related to IP. Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.

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Virtual Worlds, Real Rules: EU Parliament’s First Take on IP in the Metaverse

IP Watchdog

This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

The IPKat

The first edition of Intellectual Property Law in China (IPLCN) was the first of a bunch of goodies this Kat enthusiastically gathered from the incomparable IP library of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI). This Kat’s observations on the book pivot on the following two points.

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Guest Book Review: Teaching Intellectual Property Law

The IPKat

This is a book review of Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management edited by Sabine Jacques, Associate Professor in Information Technology, Media and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia Law School and Ruth Soetendorp, Visiting Academic, City University of London and Professor Emerita, Bournemouth University.

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EMP&A Accepting Summer 2025 Intern Applications

Erik K Pelton

Pelton & Associates (EMP&A) is a boutique firm focusing on intellectual property protection for businesses and brands, including trademark and copyright applications, trademark disputes, matters with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, trademark clearance searches, and other matters.

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ERA summer courses on European IP and IT law return with 25% IPKat readers’ discount

The IPKat

Trier in summer As readers know, the Katfriends at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier are always busy organizing programmes and courses on all aspects of European law, including IP and digital and IT law.