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Indian patent application status refers to the latest status of an application in the tracking system of the Indian Patent Office.

YouTube operates within the framework of international copyright laws and has policies to protect intellectual property owners while balancing fair use.

Learn about the trademark registration fees in India, including costs for individuals, startups, and businesses. Understand filing methods, additional charges, and more.

When an artificial intelligence system is trained on copyrighted news content, and later answers a user’s question using what it learned, has the law been broken? On 24th July 2026, the Delhi High Court answered that question, at least for now. In ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. Open AI OpCo LLC, Justice Amit Bansal declined to grant an interim injunction against OpenAI, holding, on a prima facie, interim stage view, that the company’s use of ANI’s news content to train its large language models (“LLMs”) falls within the fair dealing exception under Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act, 1957

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the production, reproduction and dissemination of creative works, as well as posing intricate challenges for copyright law. A major type of synthetic media, deepfakes also pose further issues regarding copyright violations, personality rights, privacy concerns, and intermediary liability.

The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks published the Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Patent Examination Procedures on August 7, 2026, laying down a framework for the use of AI in patent examination.

The Delhi High Court, in ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI OpCo LLC, has delivered India's first significant ruling on the application of copyright law to the training and functioning of large language models ("LLMs").

The Copyright Act, 1957 uses two different terms for a work- ‘Authorship' and ‘Ownership'. Is there a difference between the two?

Film Piracy is the unauthorised copying, distribution or sharing of movies and films without the consent of the creators, or producers.

The trademark registration fee for Class 99 is ₹4,500 per class for proprietors, MSMEs, or startup applicants. For other applicants, the fee is ₹9,000 per class.

“Commercial disputes being given a criminal colour” is a routine issue faced by criminal courts across the country, and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has also quashed several criminal complaints pertaining to commercial/civil claims for that reason. It is important to note that, in such criminal complaints, the usual allegations involve offences of cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, and the use of forged documents.

The word Panchanama is not used as such or defined particularly anywhere in any book of Law, but the same can be read into Section 100 under Chapter VII of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (Cr.P.C.).

In the petition, the main averments were that to practice law in India, a person has to be an Indian citizen and should possess a degree in law from a recognized University in India.

In a recent decision of Amardeep Singh vs. Harveen Kaur, the apex court had a chance to interpret the law regarding mandatory ‘cooling off' period ...

The rapid urbanization and unprecedented growth in population has increased the need for affordable housing and lodging multifold. The infrastructure sector has grown like no other in our country and so has the problem of unauthorized and illegal construction

The jurisdiction of 226 and 227 is vast and has to be exercised sparingly.

Though IPAIRS allows a search conducted in all the Indian Patents and Patent Applications, the system however does not allow a user to perform a full-text search.

American multinational corporation Microsoft sued its Korean rival Samsung for violating a patent-licensing contract involving Android operating system.

The term "Murder" traces its origin form the Germanic word "morth" which means secret killing.

Per incuriam, literally translated as "through lack of care", refers to a judgment of a court which has been decided without reference to a statutory provision or earlier judgment which would have been relevant.