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Trade Dress Passing Off: Delhi HC Restrains GAINDA from Copying HARPIC, COLIN & LIZOL Get-Up
The Delhi High Court has granted an interim injunction restraining Grand Chemical Works from selling cleaning products under the 'GAINDA' mark in trade dresses copying the distinctive get-up…
No Reasons, No Refusal – and No Absolute Bar Anymore: Bombay HC on Atomic Energy & Nuclear Patent Rejections
Must the government explain why it refuses a patent on atomic energy grounds? In Huntington Alloys Corporation v. Union of India, the Bombay High Court held that even…
AI Inventorship and the DABUS Refusal in India: Patent Opponent’s Submissions in the Patent Office Order
In Patent Application No. 202017019068, Stephen L. Thaler named DABUS, an artificial intelligence system, as the inventor of a food container invention. Although the Indian Patent Office refused…
No Copyright in a Golf Swing of Ideas
In the case of Gurbaaz Pratap Singh Mann vs Kunwar Raghav Bhandari and Ors., the Delhi High Court looked at whether the defendants had copied the plaintiff’s protected…
Copy Paste Creativity Fails the Originality Test
In the case of Bombay Metal Works (P) Limited vs Tara Singh Prop. R.S. Industries (Regd), a dispute arose over competing packaging designs for bicycle parts. The petitioner…
Inventorship of AI Technologies (DABUS): Submissions of the Opponent
In Patent Application No. 202017019068, Stephen L. Thaler named DABUS, an artificial intelligence system, as the inventor of a food container invention. The Opponent challenges that position by…
Inventorship of DABUS in India: Can an AI System Be the True and First Inventor?
In the case of Patent Application No. 202017019068, Stephen L. Thaler sought a patent for a food container invention and named DABUS, an artificial intelligence system, as the…
Seeing Red: Calcutta High Court Upholds Exide’s Trade Dress Injunction Against Amaron
Can a battery brand spend years telling consumers that red means Exide, and then quietly launch its own red product line? The Calcutta High Court's Division Bench says…
No Euphoria for Pirates: Copyright infringement injunction against rogue websites
The Delhi High Court granted an ex parte ad interim injunction in favor of HBO, to protect Euphoria from online piracy ahead of its India release. The court…