Copyright is a special type of intellectual property that aims at protecting the fruit of a man's labor or skill from being misappropriated by someone else.

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A patent claim is indisputably the most important part of a patent specification. It defines the boundary of the patent.

In the process of registering your trademark, there are two instances where a provision of refusal can be raised against the registration of your mark.

User date is no less to others for protecting a trademark.

A trademark examiner conducts the trademark examination of the application for registration.

Section 9 of the Trademarks Act, 1999, provides for absolute grounds for refusal of registration of the trademark.

As we all know the Madrid System functions under the Madrid Agreement (1891) and the Madrid Protocol (1989).

After the introduction of the new Trade Mark Rules, 2017 on March 6, 2017; the process of trade mark registration has been stream lined, with more emphasis on digitization.

Under the main heads of Intellectual Property Rights, Geographical Indications gains an important stance.

The PCT patent application has two phases: namely International and National.

Though the terms patent agent and patent attorney are often used interchangeably, there is a lot of difference between the two terms.

These new guidelines came into existence after considering the recommendations from the expert committee.

Indian Patents Act, 1970 also considers falsification of entries in register, claiming patent rights in an unauthorized way etc. to be punishable criminal offences.

The Indian Patent Advanced Search System, InPASS, was introduced on 27.02.2015. Prior to InPASS, IPAIRS [Indian Patent Information Retrieval System] was used to conduct patent search in India.

Copyright is a right given to or derived from works and it is not a right in novelty only of ideas.

The battle to take over the household has heated up recently with increased capabilities coming to virtual assistants.

The Madras High Court recently adjudicated in the case of Eicher Motors Ltd. v. Nitin Service Point and Automobiles (C.S.(Comm.Div.) No.77 of 2023) pertaining to the mark "Royal Enfield".

A trademark is not simply a mark or a visual symbol that denotes the proprietor or the quality of a product, but goes far as crystallizing customer loyalty even after the expiration of a patent term for a medicament.

The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) was constituted on September 15, 2003 by the Indian Government to hear and resolve the appeals against the decisions of the registrar under the Indian Trademarks Act, 1999 ...