SpicyIP

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Delhi High Court Judges Included in Most Influential People in IP List: Revisiting their Judgments from a Critical Eye Justices Amit Bansal and Jyoti Singh of the Delhi HC feature on the British Media Platforms list.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Case Summaries Anil Kapoor vs Simply Life India & Ors on 20 September, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The Plaintiff sought protection of his personality rights, publicity rights and elements associated with his persona like his name, voice, photographs/ likeness, dialogues, manner of dialogue delivery, gestures, signatures.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Patent Search : Examiners utilize AI systems to detect existing inventions, classify inventions, and determine the novelty of new inventions. Here, the applicant was granted a patent for inventing an AI. Subsequently, a new creation, DABUS , was produced using the same AI invention.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2024

PART I] Synthetic Singers and Voice Theft: BomHC protects Arijit Singh’s Personality Rights In a first of its kind order in India, the BHC restrains AI platforms from using likeness of famous singer Arijit Singh, finding them to prima facie infringe his personality rights. Read on below to know more.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On September 20, the Delhi High Court granted relief to film actor Anil Kapoor against the unauthorised use of his image, name, voice, and other traits of his persona for monetary gain, reinforcing his personality rights. Sarl a A Sarogi , where the Court affirmed the position on descendability of publicity rights.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction The rights which are granted to the people for their creative work are known as intellectual property rights. They provide the creator a sole, time-limited right to make use of their invention. As a result, such provisions may generate considerable misunderstanding in this field.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

In 2006 Kibow had applied for registration of its invention for a certain composition that augments kidney function and was granted patent protection. The petitioner contented that Jayalalithaa’s personality rights and her family’s privacy rights should be protected and that the productions may be incorrect and misleading.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

March in South Africa, a matter, Groundprobe Pty Ltd and another v Reutech Mining (Pty) Ltd and others which started out as a patent infringement action ended up with a court judgment revoking the patent for a lack of inventive step.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The court held that proposals to make amendments in a patent application do not amount to an admission of the invention being non novel and the respondent’s finding that the invention is identical and similar to the cited prior art was not tenable. Even a year after receiving the GI tag, Telangana farmers wait for the red gram board.

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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

The patent was rejected by the Deputy Controller on the grounds that the application did not provide exact ratio pesticide and safener being used and for lack of inventive steps. emphasizing on person skilled in the art. The five-step inquiry into inventive step, as outlined in the latter case was also referred. v Cipla Ltd.,

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

From an in-depth discussion on the terms of copyright and translations in India to the recent UK Supreme Court’s order regarding the patentability of inventions by an AI, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. The Court directed the NBA to determine whether the invention relates to biological resource with a reasoned order.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

T Series And Another vs M/S Dreamline Reality Movies on 22 February [Punjab and Haryana High Court] The case concerned the adaptation of late Jaswinder Kaurs biography into a cinematographic film and deals with interplay of copyright with personality rights. The judgement was passed by Justice Rajbir Sehrawat. Ericsson v.

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