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It is normal for the patentee to seek copyright protection of the literary work in the same subject matter. This means that copyright protection can subsist along with patents.

In February 2023, the government of India established a committee tasked with examining the need for a separate law to regulate competition in digital markets.

The desire to expand internationally is a but a natural consequence of globalisation.

Under the Domain name dispute resolution policy, the dispute regarding a domain name is compulsorily submitted to the administrative authority or panel where the complainant alleges that (a) the impugned domain name is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark or service mark in which the complainant has the rights; or (b) the proprietor has no right or legitimate interest in respect of the domain name; or (c) the domain name was registered and being used in bad faith.

Most of the contentious trade secret disputes revolve around employer-employee relationships where employees leave either to start their own venture or to join a competitor.

The issues of trademark infringement, passing off and copyright infringement has once again been raised in the recent Bombay High Court case "Alcon Inc. and Alcon Laboratories (I) Pvt. Ltd. & Anr vs. Ajanta Pharma Limited" by the plaintiffs Alcon Inc. against the defendant Ajanta Pharma. Alcon.

Copyrights is a bundle of exclusive rights given to the owner to financially or otherwise reward him for his skills & efforts. The exclusive rights of the owner of such property are vested with its ‘author’. It is observed that to own property in any idea, the author has to give it some tangible form. There can be no copyright to ideas.

Publici juris" is a Latin word, and in the legal parlance, means, "of public right". The term signifies a thing or a right that is open and exercisable by all persons. It designates things that belong to the entire community, and not to any private party.

The Court concluded that the patent application would pass through the exemption filter "per se" under Section 3(k) if one or more features therein make a technical contribution and thereby augment the functioning of the computer or the device in which the computer programme(s) are embedded.

The telecommunications space in India has undergone a swift digital transformation, with mobile numbers, device identifiers and telecom-linked authentication systems becoming integral to financial services, e-governance, digital payments...

India is the world's second-largest telecommunications market with a subscriber base of 1.16 billion and has registered robust growth in the last decade. The liberal and reformist policies...

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament in December 2019.

The Patent law in India is governed by the provisions specified in the Patents Act, 1970, hereinafter "The Patents Act".

The term "well-known trade mark" has been defined in the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and refers to a mark which has become so to the substantial segment of the public which uses such goods or receives such services that the use of such mark in relation to other goods or services would be likely to be taken as indicating a connection in the course of trade or rendering of services between those goods or services and a person using the mark in relation to the first mentioned goods or services.

We are all aware of the four formal requirements for patenting an invention in India. They are a) the invention must not be in the ambit of Section 3 (What are not inventions) or Section 4 ...

The subsequent submissions regarding synergism can be accepted in a reply to the office action as a further support of synergy.

Rushing to get ex party injunction remained the first salvo in the hands of the patentee in India. Section 108(1) allows courts to give relief in suit for infringement inter alia grant