Indian IP Framework

Industrial Applicability as a Patentability Criterion under the Patents Act, 1970

Among the three foundational criteria that a patent applicant must satisfy to obtain a grant  novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability industrial applicability is perhaps the least litigated and the least theoretically contested, yet it performs an indispensable function in defining the outer boundary of the patent system’s reach. It is the criterion that ensures

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Copyright in Cinematograph Films – Ownership, Rights and Exploitation

Few creative works demand as much capital, coordinate as many individual contributions, or generate as much commercial activity as a cinematograph film. A feature film involves the labour of writers, directors, composers, lyricists, performers, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, visual effects artists and hundreds of others whose individual creative contributions are assembled, over months or years,

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The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. v. Mr. Aditya Pandey & Anr.

High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | CS(OS) 1185/2006 & I.A. Nos. 6486/2006, 6487/2006, 7027/2006; CS(OS) 1996/2009 & I.A. No. 13692/2009 Background The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd., referred to throughout as IPRS, is a non-profit cooperative body incorporated in August 1969 with the object of monitoring, administering and enforcing the performing rights of

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