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5 Reasons to Protect Your Trademark

5 Reasons to Protect Your Trademark

A trademark is your brand’s first line of defense. Without the legal protections of a registered trademark, your competitors could use your business name and logo to sell their own products. This is why registering your company’s trademarks is so important. Trademarks help you protect your brand, driving customers back to you instead of someone else. Trademarks can be tricky to understand, especially for new business owners. Here are five reasons why you should protect your trademark as soon as…
Intellectual Property, Trademarks October 12, 2022 961Views 0Like

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Weekly Copyright Media & Entertainment Law Updates

Weekly Copyright, Media and Entertainment Law Updates

This week's copyright, media and entertainment law updates are as below:   Songwriters signed away their right to sue for "Shake It Off" Taylor Swift provided sworn testimony in one of the several copyright infringement litigations she has been involved in over "Shake It Off" in August. The Artist’s lawyers now claim that the plaintiffs waived their right to sue when they signed publication contracts years ago. Taylor Swift stated, among other things, that she "had never heard the song Playas Gon'…
Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law October 9, 2022 697Views 0Like

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Weekly Antitrust and Data Privacy Updates

Weekly Anti-trust and Privacy Updates

This week’s anti-trust and privacy updates are as follows: The UK ICO will fine TikTok £27 million for failing to protect children's privacy TikTok, the viral video sharing app that is especially popular among young people, was found to have failed to safeguard children's privacy from 2018 to 2020, according to a UK ICO inquiry. Given the prolonged term and the seriousness of the crimes, TikTok may be liable for a £27 million punishment if this conclusion holds up. The anticipated…
Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection October 9, 2022 760Views 0Like

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Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 30th September 2022 to 7th October 2022

This week's Patent and Design data has been compiled from the Official journal of patents and designs, published by the patent office on the 7th of October 2022. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 1501 patent applications have been published in the 40th issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1501 applications published in the journal, 518 applications account…
Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics October 7, 2022 1341Views 0Like

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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week’s trademark updates are as follows: The tussle between TATA and HakunaMatata finally settles The Delhi High Court ruled in favor of Tata Sons Private Limited and barred a company in UK from using the ‘TATA’ trademark in its course of trading cryptocurrency or sale of digital tokens. The order of permanent injunction was passed against HakunaMatata $TATA Founders, who were made to change their name to HakunaMatata Token Ltd. The defendant company was also asked to start a new…
Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property, Trademarks October 7, 2022 614Views 0Like

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CASE BRIEF: FMC Corporation & Ors. vs. Natco Pharma Limited

Facts (with Timeline): i) FMC Corporation and FMC Agro Singapore Pte. Ltd. (collectively referred to as “Plaintiffs”) were assigned Indian Patent No. 298645 (suit patent/IN’645) titled “Method for preparing N-Phenylpyrazole-1-Carboxamides.” ii) The suit patent disclosed a novel method for preparing anthranilic diamide insecticide compounds. The claimed method involves combining: a carboxylic acid compound of Formula 2, an aniline compound of Formula 3, and a sulfonyl chloride, to prepare a compound of Formula 1 (Chlorantraniliprole (CTPR)). iii) The Plaintiffs brought…
Intellectual Property, Patents October 3, 2022 2922Views 0Like

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Weekly Anti-Trust and Privacy Updates

Weekly Anti-Trust and Privacy Updates

This week's Antitrust Updates are as follows: Optus Data Breach – Australian Government Blames the Company over the Breach The Australian telecommunication giant, Optus, was the victim of a large data breach of over 10 million customers. The leaked data included personal details (home addresses, drivers’ licenses, passport numbers) of the customers. An anonymous account ‘optusdata’ appeared online claiming responsibility for the attack, and published data of over 10,000 customers online, with a demand for ransom. The Australian Government blamed Optus…
Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection October 1, 2022 724Views 0Like

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Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 23rd September 2022 to 30th September 2022

This week's Patent and Design data has been compiled from the Official journal of patents and designs, published by the patent office on the 30th of September 2022. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 1126 patent applications have been published in the 39th issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1126 applications published in the journal, 368 applications account…
Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics September 30, 2022 1086Views 0Like

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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week’s trademark updates are as follows: Delhi High Court prevents website from using the trademark "Live Law" because of "intent to cash in on goodwill." The Delhi High Court has issued an ad interim injunction in favour of Live Law Media Private Limited, the business that owns the legal portal livelaw.in, preventing "Tiya Law Library" and a Haryana-based attorney from using the mark/name "Live Law" until further orders and ordering the internet service providers to block access to the website…
Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property, Trademarks September 30, 2022 722Views 0Like

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Weekly Updates: Copyright and Entertainment Law

This is a weekly post on copyright and entertainment law updates. Meta Responds to Copyright Infringement Lawsuit by Epidemic Sound Swedish Music Label, Epidemics Sound AB has accused Meta of violation of several thousand copyrights held by Epidemics Sound AB by allowing the users to stream, download and incorporate the sound recordings in their videos, on the music libraries of platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. Meta, in response has filed a motion to dismiss the case, alleging that Epidemic Sound’s…
Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law September 30, 2022 734Views 0Like

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