Nelligan Law

MARCH 25, 2025

These registrations allowed his brand to extend into wellness, food, kitchen appliances, and lifestyle products, ensuring that the trust built in the ring carried over to consumers’ everyday lives. It was another example of his long-standing commitment to protecting and leveraging the value of his personal brand.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Many companies exploit renowned person identities without obtaining proper consent, leading intellectual property experts to advocate for the safeguarding of image rights through registration under Intellectual Property laws.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here is what Kasim has to say: The task of writing on the subject matter of intellectual property (IP) is always an onerous one for a lot of reasons. One of such reasons is the volatility of IP law. IP law is mutably capricious in nature; it changes almost daily in its scope, scale and tenor.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2024

Taking a Look at Lupin’s Colour TM Application for its Inhalers Image from here On Lupin’s recent colour trademark registrations for its inhalers, Md Sabeeh Ahmad. Sabeeh highlights how these registration can extend Lupin’s monopoly and could affect million’s right to access these essential medicines.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. He also explains the history of why utility models never became an EU-wide right.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 9, 2025

Keep up with the ever changing world of IP with SpicyIPs Weekly Review! There is no registration fee for any of the seminars. Though he applied in 1992, registration was granted only in 2020. Further, he had challenged the plaintiffs trademark registration, and thus sought a stay under S.124 124 of the Act.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

If you find yourself traveling after traveling, whether for work or vacation like this Kat, who is writing from Japan this time, here is your weekly NTL post to stay in touch with IP developments. It has 24 chapters focusing on the relationship between IP rights and inclusivity.

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Personality Rights IP Art Copyright 59

IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2025

With the emergence of Intellectual Property as an important and relevant sector of law and awareness among people about securing and protecting the product of their intellect has resulted in the birth of several unique rights which can be protected and monetized under IP laws.

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Personality Rights Privacy Intellectual Property Journalism 52

SpicyIP

AUGUST 4, 2024

Tejas Misra explains why and how these seemingly innocuous posts may infringe on the shooter’s personality rights. Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act Comes Into Force Today Image by vecstock on Freepik Provisions of the Jan Vishwas Act related to various IP legislations come into effect today.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Wondering what IP developments took place last week? Look no further as we present to you the SpicyIP Weekly Review, highlighting the discussions that took place on the blog along with other IP news. Lokesh discusses the case in this short tidbit post. Image from here Kia Wang vs The Registrar of Trademarks & Anr.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Kurian’s trail of transparency, Statements of Patent (Non-)Working, Corruption in IP Offices, Serial Crisis in India, the Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill, etc. Although India now has the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 , it doesn’t provide IP protection to databases. Missed anything? No worries, we got you! Sounds “Jhakaas!”

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Personality Rights IP Licensing Copyright 59

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 23, 2023

This unique address is achieved through a set of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers, commonly known as IP addresses, which have become a primary concern for the allocation of domain names on the Internet. Domain name disputes The unique mapping between IP addresses and domain names has created an artificial scarcity of domain names.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Every day we come across many such influencers and celebrities endorsing products wherein the personality of an individual is traded either by validation or without. Living in an era where influential personalities are reverenced, fortifying Personality Rights from any such misuse is a must. PERSONALITY RIGHT.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This post is the third and final installment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2021 series” of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2021. This post is about patents and reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration. The first 2 posts covered copyright and trade marks.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

Due to the extent of unlawful activity associated with the petitioner’s name and personality, the court granted a restraining order on 25 th November 2022 against various people and companies. What are Publicity Rights? However, Indian law has indirect references for the protection of publicity rights. Under this Act, Sec.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor. Nishtha emphasises that in determining whether the deceased possessed personality rights enforceable by his heirs, the Court based its reasoning on the intertwining between privacy and publicity rights.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

To read these, along with a round up of IP developments around the country, and world, read on below. In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personality rights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Delhi HCs ruling on Celebrity Rights and the Powers of Regional Directors under Companies Act vis a vis Trademark Similarity. The Delhi HC restrained the defendants in both cases from infringing the plaintiffs personality rights.

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Journalism Trademark Registering Trademarks Business 52

SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the Law Commission’s Report on Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage, DHC’s decisions on working examples, writ jurisdiction of the pre-grant oppositions, and the Viagra-Vigoura trademark dispute. This and much more in last week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review.

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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. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Generally, such fantasy games have no registration fee in order to attract as many participants as they can, although there are those that charge a fee as well. With the rapid emergence of technology, fantasy games can be accessed on a variety of platforms or personal devices.

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Trademark Personality Rights Privacy Licensing 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact).

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Intepat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The issue involved in the case was whether the use of names and images of sportspersons to create digital player cards is a violation of their privacy and publicity rights. Written by Khushee, an assessment intern at Intepat IP. The post Copyright Challenges with Non-Fungible Tokens appeared first on Intepat IP.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2024 has been an explosive year for IP developments in India, with more IP divisions coming up in different High Courts, an increasing number of IP registrations and an overall higher degree of attention on IP issues in the country. d) Other IP Developments; and e) Other Notable Developments.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Conclusion Although there is no specific statute governing publicity rights in India, through the decisions of various courts across the country publicity rights are recognised in India and dealt with as a part of right to privacy. RFMLR (2018) 1 Titan Industries Limited v.

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