A trademark is not merely a badge of origin it is a commercial asset of potentially enormous value, capable of generating revenue far beyond the direct sale of the goods or services to which it is attached. The mechanisms through which that value is extracted and shared between the proprietor of the mark and third […]
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If the specification is the heart of a patent application, the claims are its spine. Every structural decision in the specification how the invention is described, what embodiments are disclosed, which prior art is distinguished ultimately serves the claims, because it is the claims alone that define the legal boundary of the monopoly that the
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The specification is the heart of a patent application. Every other element of the application the claims, the abstract, the drawings derives its meaning and its legal validity from the specification and the quality of the specification determines, more than any other single factor, both the prospect of grant and the value of the patent
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Few provisions in the entire canon of global intellectual property law have attracted as much sustained attention, controversy and scholarly debate as Section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970. In the two decades since India inserted this provision into its patent statute as part of the 2005 amendment that brought the country into compliance with
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 13 April 2009CS (OS) No. 1682 of 2006Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. Ravindra BhatCitation: 2009 SCC OnLine Del 835 | (2009) 40 PTC 694 (Del) Background Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and its associated and affiliated companies are among the world’s largest producers and distributors of cinematographic
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Supreme Court of India | Decided: 12 September 2018 Civil Appeal No. (arising from Division Bench judgment of the Bombay High Court) Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.F. Nariman & Hon’ble Ms. Justice Indu Malhotra Citation: 2018 SCC OnLine SC 1846 Background Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, the plaintiff and respondent before the Supreme Court, is the registered
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The protection of computer programs under intellectual property law is one of the most consequential and contested questions in the history of modern legal systems. Software drives virtually every sector of the contemporary economy – from financial systems and medical devices to communications infrastructure and consumer entertainment. The legal framework that governs who owns software,