INTRODUCTION A geographical indication (GI) is a label placed on products that have a specific geographical origin and have qualities or a reputation that stem from that origin. A sign must identify a product as coming from a specific location in order to function as a GI. It is an indication. It originates from a…
Introduction According to the Design Act, 2000, Design’ means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament or composition of lines or colour or combination thereof applied to any article whether two dimensional or three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined.…
CONCEPT OF TRADEMARK A trademark may be a visual indication that will be a word to designate the supply of the product, a signature, name, device, label, numbers, or combination of colors used, services or different things of commerce to differentiate it from different similar merchandise or services originated from another. A trademark protects the…
INTRODUCTION Industrial Designs are one of the intellectual property rights just like copyright, trademark, patents and geographical indications. We remember things by the way of how they look, the shape or the pattern imprinted on it. Industrial design protection exactly does the same. It protects the aesthetic value of the product and does not deal…
There’s Intellectual Property in every product and service we are using today in our daily lives. In simple words, anything that is created by the person by applying his mind or intellectual becomes his intellectual property. For instance, a person is setting up his/ her business wherein he has designed a logo for his business/…
The Principle of Passing off is basically the law against the tort committed by an entity when he unintentionally or deliberately misrepresents or passes off his goods or services as those of another party’s without that party’s consent and this law is used to enforce registered as well as unregistered trademark rights. The principle of…
INTRODUCTION With the development of the web and expanding utilization of the overall web prospects of encroachment of copyright have become amazing free and simple access on the web along with potential outcomes of down stacking has made new given in copyright encroachment. Taking substance from one site, changing it or simply imitating it on…
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on March 30, 2021 notified The Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021 which amends the Copyright Rules, 2013 to introduce certain changes in the administration of Copyright Law in India. The Amendment introduces measures to digitize the whole process of functioning of the…
INTRODUCTION A patent an exclusive right granted for an invention means patent an exclusive rights to a product or a process that generally provide a new way of doing something or offer a new technical solution to a problem. Intellectual property right include copyright, patent, industrial design, trademark etc. but in industrial property include such…
According to the Trademark Act 1999, a trademark denotes a mark qualified for representing a brand. It is a logo, emblem, formatting, term, image or something, which differentiates one product from another similar product. The concept of passing off has undergone various changes during the passage of time. Originally, it was restricted to the representation…
