Supreme Court of India | Decided: 18 August 1978 Civil Appeal No. 1031 of 1973 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Syed Murtaza Fazal Ali, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Jaswant Singh & Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.S. Pathak Citation: 1978 AIR 1613 | 1979 SCR (1) 218 | (1978) 4 SCC 118 Background R.G. Anand was a playwright, dramatist,
Supreme Court of India | Decided: 12 December 2007 Civil Appeal Nos. 6472 of 2004 & 6905 of 2004 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice B.N. Agrawal & Hon’ble Mr. Justice P.P. Naolekar Citation: (2008) 1 SCC 1 | AIR 2008 SC 809 | 2008 (36) PTC 1 (SC) Background Eastern Book Company, a well-established partnership firm
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Fashion sits at an uncomfortable intersection in intellectual property law. It is simultaneously one of the most creative and culturally significant industries in the global economy and one of the least comprehensively protected by the traditional frameworks of intellectual property. The tension is well known and widely debated: fashion design combines artistic expression with functional
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The emergence of generative artificial intelligence as a practical tool for creative production has forced copyright law to confront a question it was never designed to answer: at what point does a work cease to be the product of human creative expression and become the output of a machine? This question matters enormously, for the
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Few questions in intellectual property law generate as much commercial consequence and as little settled doctrine as the protection of fictional characters. A memorable character the hero of a beloved video game franchise, the protagonist of a globally distributed film series, the mascot of a decades-old animated property may be worth billions of dollars in
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Division Bench | Decided: 4 May 2026 LPA Nos. 176, 177 & 178 of 2023 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Om Prakash Shukla Background Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, a multinational automobile manufacturer of undisputed global standing incorporated under the laws of Japan
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Single Judge | Date of Decision: 28 March, 2026 Case Number: C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 486/2022 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND In NEC Corporation v. Assistant Controller The Appellant, NEC Corporation, is the applicant for Patent Application No. 201717010986, filed on 28.03.2017 before the Patent Office, New Delhi as
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Division Bench | Date of Decision: July 1, Case Number: LPA 545/2024 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Om Prakash Shukla BACKGROUND The Appellant, Sulzer Mixpac AG, filed Application No. 1329/DEL/2012 on 1 May 2012 before the Controller of Patents seeking registration of
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Supreme Court of India | April 27, 1962 | AIR 1963 SC 449 S.K. Das, M. Hidayatullah & J.C. Shah, JJ. Background Amritdhara Pharmacy had been selling a popular ayurvedic medicinal preparation under the mark “Amritdhara” since 1901 (initially as “Amrit Ki Dhara,” later changed to “Amritdhara” in 1903). The medicine was introduced by Pandit
Supreme Court of India | B.N. Kirpal, Doraswamy Raju & Brij Kumar JJ. | 26 March 2001 AIR 2001 SC 1952 | 2001 (5) SCC 73 | Civil Appeal No. 2372 of 2001 Background Both the appellant Cadila Healthcare Limited and the respondent Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited were successor companies that had acquired the assets and
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