Court Rules GUIs Eligible for Design Registration : No More Blanket Rejections
The Calcutta High Court clarified that GUIs are not per se excluded from design registration under the Designs Act, 2000, strengthening GUI protection in India.
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In Vitro Screening in Form, Diagnostic in Substance: Telomerase Therapy Patent Barred under Section 3(i)
Labeling a test as ‘screening’ doesn’t make it patentable if it decides treatment. In Geron Corporation’s case, measuring telomere length to decide who receives telomerase therapy made the…
Employment First, IPL Later, Copyright Nowhere
In the case of Gaurav Garg v. Aly Morani & Ors., the dispute arose from claims over the IPL Awards event, its presentation, and related written material. The…
Copyright Lives On, Even Before Probate
In the case of Dev Sahitya Kutir Pvt Ltd v. Smt. Archana Debnath & Anr., the dispute arose from alleged publication and sale of copyrighted literary and artistic…
Speak Up or Step Aside: Bombay HC on What a Post-Grant Opposition Order Must Do
In Saurabh Arora v. Deputy Controller of Patents, the Bombay High Court set aside a post-grant patent opposition order that dismissed a challenge under Section 25(2)(c) of the…
Two Piscos, One Bar: Delhi High Court Division Bench Confirms Dual GI Identity for Peru and Chile
What began as a routine GI application in 2005 ended twenty years later with Delhi High Court's Division Bench settling one of Indian IP law's most contested geographical…
KENT can’t do it! Court proves it’s not a big FAN of Kent’s Brand Stretch, backs prior use
In the case of Kent Ro Systems Limited v. Kent Cables Private Limited, two businesses using the same mark KENT clashed over who could sell fans under that…
Steering the divide: Steer Engineering’s divisional application denied by Court
Madras High Court upheld the refusal of Steer Engineering’s divisional patent application, affirming lack of inventive step and overlap with the parent filing.
No double riding! Court clarifies on patent revocation plea in case involving Philips
In the case of Versuni Holding B.V. Trading as Preethi v. Maya Appliances Private Limited, the patent holder had already sued for infringement before the Delhi High Court.…
Volkswagen vs Maruti Suzuki: When MOTION met TRANSFORMOTION, Similarity missed the bus!
In the case of Volkswagen AG v. The Registrar of Trade Marks and Anr., Volkswagen opposed Maruti Suzuki’s application for TRANSFORMOTION in Class 12 on the ground that…
Images Copyright and AI Getty Vs. Stable Diffusion
In the case of Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd, Getty Images sued Stability AI, the developer of the Stable Diffusion generative AI model, alleging that the system…
Mere Admixture or True Innovation? Crystal Crop’s Herbicidal Composition Fails the Synergy Test
The Delhi High Court has reaffirmed a simple patent lesson: mixing known compounds will not do unless the mix delivers something unexpectedly better. In Crystal Crop, the claimed…