The world of Google is a vast and it is very difficult to stay protected in the Ad words of Google. But somehow the domain name owners struggle to survive in this world by claiming their own rights as and when they find some discrepancies.
Read MoreThe Courts and registries are nowadays burdened with legal battles over “spare parts”. This time a registered trade mark is in question in the Court of Singapore in the case of AUDI AG v Lim Ching Kwang. In the court of Singapore the German car
Read MoreThe recent litigation in the area of Patent has once again nudged Bayer, the pharmaceutical giant against Ajanta Pharma. Bayer produces a medicine which cures erectile dysfunction. Very recently the plaintiff was awakened by the fact that the defendant has already started marketing and manufacturing
Read MoreThis copyright case involves the ownership interest of copyright over certain musical works which Paul Mc Cartney co-authored with former members of Beatles. The defendants in this case are the publisher company holding the copyright interest in the works which are in the name of
Read MoreThe cases on trade marks has traversed a long way to the ancient world of the tea when people of Scotland were accustomed to the famous Willow tea rooms and it came to be associated with the services rendered by the owner. In this connection
Read MoreThe entitlement of partial priority has been dealt recently by the Board of Appeal and has held in its decision that partial priority may not be refused only for a claim embracing alternative subject matter by virtue of one or more generic expressions. The partial
Read MoreFew days back the Delhi High Court has pondered upon the trans-border reputation and has laid down a detailed guideline for determining the trans-border reputation in India. There have been judgments penned down by the Court establishing trans-border reputation of the trade marks which are
Read MoreThe trade marks law has expanded from time to time incorporating various changes by way of amendments. Earlier the trade marks law in India was governed by the trade and Merchandise Act, 1958. This Act defined the permitted use as use by a registered proprietor
Read MoreConsidering the higher cost of education in India the High Court has passed the judgment in the DU Photocopy case in favor of DU. This had a far reaching implications on access to education in a developing countries like India. But the Oxford University Press
Read MoreNow the clutches of the copyright are in the hand of the Hollywood studios. The U.S District Court has granted preliminary injunction to VidAngel, a movie streaming and filtering services on the ground of violating the copyright of the Hollywood Studios. The Court held that
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