intellectual property rights

A Jabalpur trial court has effectively banned the book, “It Was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal” with an interim order passed to this effect on Monday. The book, written by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, is a dramatised account of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The order restrains the authors, both French nationals, and the publishers, Full Circle Publication Private Limited, New..

About six months after the release of Aamir Khan’s superhit film Ghajini, a producer of the film’s original Tamil version has moved the Madras High Court seeking a deposit of Rs 230 crore from the producers of the hindi version. A Chandrasekharan of the Chennai-based Sri Saravana Creations said he had first filed a civil suit days before the Hindi film was to be..

The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition by Bajaj Auto seeking a stay on an order passed by the court on May 18, allowing TVS Motor to manufacture and market its 125 CC ‘Flame’ motorcycle, in its original form. The court on May 18 lifted an order of injunction restraining TVS Motor’s from using internal combustion engine with three valves and two spar..

The Kerala High Court registered a suo motu case against patenting of the deity of Attukal Temple in Thiruvananthapuram and also its sobriquet women Sabarimala. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Justice Kurian Joseph, directed to implede Attukal Devi Trust as a respondent in the case. The suo motu action was taken on the basis of a fax letter sent..

The Bombay HC will hear on May 7 a civil suit filed by Hollywood's famous studio Twentieth Century Fox against B R Films, seeking an injunction against the release of the Hindi film 'Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai' alleging it was a remake of Oscar-winning English film 'My Cousin Vinny'. In the sui..

Indian Courts are well equipped to handle International cases relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Copyright, as a plethora of changes have been introduced in the existing laws here as per the Berne Convention and TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) agreement, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court today said. Speaking at a function organised ..

Delhi High Court allowed Indian company Cipla to go ahead with its manufacture and sale of lung cancer drug while dismissing the plea of Swiss company Hoffman La Roche Ltd which claimed to have sole rights over the manufacture of the drug. A bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah allowed the Indian pharma company to manufacture and sell the generic version of the patented lung cancer drug, Erlo..

Five inventions by a New Delhi resident named Anadish Pal have won patent from the United States government, Navbharat Times reported on Sunday. The inventions are a three-dimensional mouse, motor pump alarm, robotic platform, pollution free engine, and an electrical powered personal vehicle which is even smaller than the world's smallest, Tata's Nano car. The paper reported that the usefuln..

The famous headgear 'Puneri Pagadi', a symbol of pride and honour in the Pune region, may get intellectual property rights (IPR) as a local organisation has sought geographical exclusivity for the same. Pune-based Shree Puneri Pagadi Sangh has submitted an application before the Geographical Indication Registry, seeking the GI (geographical indication) tag for the turban. According to the in..

Tom Tom, one of the top GPS manufacturers, has filed countersuit against the Microsoft in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, on March 16 alleging that Microsoft has infringed at least four of their patents by releasing the popular Microsoft Streets and Trips software program. This countersuit was filed in response to the suit filed by Microsoft against the Tom Tom last ..

The Delhi High Court allowed Kamagra, the desi version of the American-based anti-impotency drug, Viagra to continue sale of its products but with a changed colour and packaging.American multinational drug company Pfizer, which claimed to have spent millions of dollars on research and development of Viagra, approached the high court complaining that its brand name was being used by Ajanta ..

A bill which aims to protect the intellectual property rights of items like Basmati rice was passed by Parliament today with the Lok Sabha agreeing to the amendments made by the Rajya Sabha. While the Lok Sabha had passed the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2008, last year, the Rajya Sabha passed it last week with the amendments. A..

At last Google finds a way to settle the case of copyright violation by inviting the authors and publishers residing in countries other than USA to accept the royalty and come to an agreeable terms. In 2004, the Google begin its project on digitising the library by scanning the books and uploading them in the Internet for the access of the common man. Against this project, in 2005, the Authors..

THE TRADE MARKS AGENTS EXAMINATION WHICH WAS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD ON 18TH AND 19TH DECEMBER, 2008 IS NOW RE-SCHEDULED TO 25TH AND 26TH MAY, 2009 DUE TO ADMINISTRATIVE REASONS..

"Himalayan" for packaged mineral water. He opines that since the term "Himalayan" is a descriptive term, it could potentially acquire distinctiveness and is therefore capable of trademark protection. Apart from the issue of whether the plaintiff in this case could really make out a case in favour of acquired distinctivess, what we'd like to ask our readers is this? Is this a case of a descripti..