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Continue reading →: Film Titles and Trademarks
The advent of the digital age and new-age technologies has increased the accessibility of people to films. Movie theaters are longer the only way to release a film for the masses. OTT platforms have been a game changer in the film and visual entertainment industry across the World. And no…
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Continue reading →: FROM PIXELS TO PROFITS-THE IMPORTANCE OF IPR IN GAMING
Intellectual property rights are legal protections that allow creators to control their creative and intellectual creations. Just like any industry, they have a huge role to play in the gaming industry, like protecting the code, artwork, music, and other elements of the game. The purpose of intellectual property rights here…
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Continue reading →: “Green” Trademarks: Promoting Environmentalism or Creating Confusion?
All of us must be familiar with the term trademarks but recently the term green trademark is much in vogue. Now in an era where climate change is at its peak and everything is going sustainable- seems to be a positive step but how impactful is still a question- one…
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Continue reading →: STAR WARS – ALWAYS AN IPR, THERE IS!
Wasn’t it fun to travel through the galaxies and experience different adventures with unimaginable creatures on different varieties of planets? Still, wondering what exactly we are talking about here? “Wonder, you must not. Star Wars, it is” – as Master Yoda would have said. We could see the use of…
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Continue reading →: CAN ANIMALS SUE FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?
In a strange turn of events, a suit was initiated in 2015 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a California Court as next friends on behalf of a Monkey! David Slater, a British Photographer, visited Indonesia in hopes of capturing the wildlife present there. To his…
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Continue reading →: MICKEY MOUSE TO SOON JOIN WINNIE-THE-POOH IN PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Introduction After a 95-year-long run of copyright protection, on 1 January 2022, the storybook character Winnie-The-Pooh finally made its entry into the public domain. Following suit, Disney’s most popular animated film character, Mickey Mouse who was first seen in the 1928 animated short film Steamboat Willie is also set to…
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Continue reading →: Memes and Copyright Infringement In India
Introduction With the increase in the number of Internet users, the use of social media has become very common in the modern-day scenario. Social media was created to remove the physical barriers between people and make human interaction easier and barrier-less, but with time social media has become a great…
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Continue reading →: The Google AdWords program and its Impact on the Registered Trademarks in India
Introduction: With the Indian economy going towards digitalization and with the advancement of technology more and more companies in India are going digital and here internet plays a significantly important role because companies are establishing their online presence and are shifting from the old school advertising methods to the modern-day…
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Continue reading →: PATENTABILITY OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE
In May 2017, the Kolkata Patent Office granted a patent to Apple on a ‘method for browsing data items with respect to a display screen associated with a computing device and an electronic device.’ When section 3(k) expressly prohibits patenting ‘a mathematical or business method or a computer program per…