Introduction A compulsory licence grants the owner of a patent or copyright the right to use their rights for a fee set by law or determined by adjudication or arbitration. In essence, a compulsory licence allows an individual or company to use another’s intellectual property without the rights holder’s consent, and for a set fee.…
WHAT IS TERM OF COPYRIGHT? The term of copyright is the length of term copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain. The term of copyright for a particular work depends on several factors, including whether it has been published or not. Usually, copyright protection lasts for the life of the…
According to the United States Copyright Office, copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights awarded to the creator of an original work authorship. These rights include the ability to copy a work, display it publicly, perform it, and create derivative works based on it. A creative work of authorship is simply any work that contains…
Copyright Protection While copyright does not protect data or ideas in and of themselves, it does protect the original expression of data and ideas. Only literary, dramatic, musical, and aesthetic works are protected by copyright. The rights that apply to each of these groups differ. The independent creation of similar works is not protected by…
The internet has posed a threat to humans in a variety of ways. Copyright infringement is one of them. People can browse millions of websites with a single click, post anything on social media networks by altering someone else’s original work; a common example of such change is the submission of research papers, in which…
Under Indian law, an adaptation is essentially a format shift, in which a copyrighted work is changed from one medium to another. If a work is developed by adding a substantial quantity of new content, it is not regarded an adaptation under the Indian Copyright Act. The copyright in a derivative work solely applies to…
Patent licences come in a variety of shapes and sizes.To transfer intellectual property rights from a defence laboratory to a firm, there are three types of licence agreements. An exclusive patent license means that the intellectual property rights cannot be used by anyone other than the named licensee. An exclusive license, under federal law, allows…
Introduction The Design Act in India protects only those Design, which are solely appealed by eye or in other word, the Design which are aesthetic in Nature are protectable in India. Earlier the Design Law in India was governed by Design Act 1911. There has been considerable growth in the area of science and technology…
Abstract Post TRIPS and WTO India’s journey to intellectual property compliance has not been an easy one. In particular patent reform has been triggered by panel rulings against India in the dispute settlement body that articulate the ambivalent approach followed by the government. ¹ As there is some evidence of the tumultuous activity at the government level²,…
Introduction A trademark is a sign, design or expression in the form of a name, word, logo etc. used to distinguish between the products/services of two or more different parties. The primary use of a trademark is to maintain the unique identity of the products or services. Now, a trademark registration, at times, can be a difficult procedure.…
