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Radios, Malls, Discotheques, Airports, Flights, Trains, Lifts and even the hold tunes of Offices have music playing. When a song is played by an FM channel on the Radio, or when a song is performed live at a concert or elsewhere ..

It can be said that the remedy of Passing off was once considered to be a "common law remedy" which was available only to trademarks.

Yakshagana is a form of ballet dance, having its own unique heritage.

The main objective of the trademarks law is to protect the interest of the consumers. It works on the principle that no confusion should exist in the market and consumers could easily identify the goods and their sources.

Technology transfer is the process by which basic science research and fundamental discoveries are developed into practical and commercially relevant applications and products. The magnitude stems from the fact that a research result may attract interest but only if there is any practical purpose or use, that patents may be granted and in order to implement that some one not necessarily the researcher must come up.

With competition rising in the market, producers or manufacturers opt for practices that are unique and creative to market their goods in a better way than their competitor.

Protection of trade secret has hitherto been a neglected area in the field of intellectual property.

Indian Patent Law prescribes that each patent application should be granted after a substantive examination.

The recent case of Aktiebolaget Volvo & ors v. Vinod Kumar & ors. involved the question of whether Vinod Kumar (Defendants) could be held guilty of infringement or passing off by selling its ice-creams under the Plaintiffs brand name "VOLVO".

How much ever tasty your recipe could be, it is important for your recipe to see if it fits under certain criteria for getting a patent.

The in surge of litigation is not merely restricted to protect marks, labels or get ups, but has over flown to other realms as well. Dealing with the shape of the container, is the case of Dabur India Ltd. v. Rajesh Kumar and Ors. [2008 (37) PTC 227 (Del.)].

Marks registered under the statute are termed as protected marks, but even the unregistered mark attains protection by virtue of the common law remedy of passing off. The fundamental aspect on which passing off action is based is to protect the rights of the trademark holder who is prior in time to use it.

Starting of a business in the name of surname or personal name is not a very new concept in India. Numerous people have been using their surname with their business to associate their identity with it.

No Question of Condonation of Delay in Filing Replication under Rule 5 in Chapter VII of the Original Side Rules: Delhi High Court.

In the past few years, this seems to have become a mantra for businesses.

In a recent case, Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. and Tata Consumer Products Ltd. ("Plaintiffs") brought a suit before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court to restrain the airing of an allegedly disparaging advertisement of the Defendant, Puro Wellness Pvt. Ltd.

Multinational corporations are very sensitive towards their intellectual property portfolio. Their worth is in the number of patents, trademarks, design and other IP proprietary rights they own.