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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week’s trademark updates are as follows: Kashmir seeks to add more products to its GI list Kashmir seeks to obtain the GI tag for five of its crafts: Kashmir Namda, Wagguv, Shikara, Gabba and Kashmir Willow Bat. The Director of the Handicrafts & Handloom Kashmir had an extensive discussion with the authorities of Intellectual Property India, Chennai and requested them to accelerate the process of registration, “The dossier for registration of these crafts has already been submitted to the Intellectual…

September 9, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 890Views 0Like

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Weekly Anti-Trust And Privacy Updates

This week's Anti-trust and Privacy updates are as follows:- Tinder Files Case Against Apple Inc. for Anti-competitive Practices Tinder owner Match Group, filing a case against Apple Inc., has alleged abuse of dominant position. The Apple’s apps market poses barriers to developers by forcing use of its proprietary in-app purchase system along with a fee of upto 30%. The allegations in the case are similar to the ongoing case against Apple in the European Union. CCI Issues Notice to ZEE and…

September 8, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 967Views 0Like

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Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 26th August 2022 to 2nd 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 2nd 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 1299 patent applications have been published in the 35th issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1299 applications published in the journal, 371 applications account…

September 5, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics 0Comment 916Views 0Like

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Weekly Update: Copyright and Entertainment Law

This is a weekly post on copyright and entertainment law updates. Paramount Pictures sues company over ‘McDowell’s’ Pop-Up Restaurant In celebrating the fictional restaurant from the universe of the blockbuster 1988 film “Coming to America”, a pop-up restaurant chain ‘JMC’ inadvertently offended production house Paramount Pictures, who is now claiming infringement of its intellectual property before the Copyright Claims Board on 24 August 2022. Paramount alleged that JMC, in running the McDowell’s Pop-Up restaurant, has copied several of the elements from…

September 5, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 0Comment 1206Views 0Like

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Weekly Trademark Updates

This week’s trademark updates are as follows: Domino’s dominates Trademark Dispute against Dominick Pizza In a recent case, the Delhi High Court restrained a Ghaziabad based pizzeria, named Dominick Pizza, from using the marks Dominick Pizza’, ‘Cheese Burst’ and ‘Pasta Italiano’ in any manner as they were identical or deceptively to the trademarks owned by Domino’s. The High Court stated that, “The reviews of the consumers on Google Reviews, also re-affirms this fact that apart from the confusion that is taking…

September 2, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Geographical Indications (GI), Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 970Views 0Like

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Weekly Anti-trust and Privacy Updates

The anti-trust and privacy updates for this week are as follows:- Inter-ministerial Task Force to regulate and prepare guidelines for Online Gaming Inter-ministerial Task Force (IMTF) for online gaming recommends drawing up guidelines for Online Gaming platforms to prevent fraud and illegitimate activities. The IMTF also recommends amending the Information Technology act, 2000, to include regulation of online gaming platforms similar to the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code and to include caps on the spending limits. The recommendations face…

September 2, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition, Privacy / Data Protection, Social Media Law 0Comment 913Views 0Like

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CASE BRIEF : Havells India Limited. vs. Shanghai CET Electric Co. Ltd. & Ors.

Facts of the Case: Havells India Limited, the Plaintiff, filed an application against Shanghai CET Electric and others (hereinafter together referred to as the Defendants) alleging them to be guilty of committing Contempt of Court for violating the orders passed by the Honourable Court dated – 10.01.2019 and 31.05.2019 (hereinafter the “1 st order” and “2 nd order”, respectively). The Court in its 1 st order, after establishing a prima facie case having been made…

September 2, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1693Views 0Like

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CASE BRIEF : Havells India Limited. vs. Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.

Facts of the Case: Havells India Limited, the Plaintiff, was incorporated in the year 1983 and engaged in the business of Electrical and Power Distribution Equipment. The Plaintiff had gained huge goodwill in the Indian market as well as the International market and was one of the leading companies in the sector of Fast Moving Electrical Goods Company, worldwide. The Plaintiff sells the products under most of the prestigious global brands like Havells, Crabtree, Standard, Promptec and Lloyd. The Plaintiff…

September 2, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property 0Comment 7555Views 0Like

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Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 19th August 2022 to 26th August 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 26th of August 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 1,403 patent applications have been published in the 34th issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1,403 applications published in the journal,510 applications account for…

August 29, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics 0Comment 860Views 0Like

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Without Proper Inventive Step Analysis, Patent Office’s Order is Unreasoned – Says Delhi High Court

In a recent case involving Gogoro Inc, the Delhi High Court remanded a patent decision back to the patent office on the ground that the order was unreasoned. The Controller of Patents in the case rejected the patent application filed by Gogoro Inc relating to a power charging system on the ground that it lacked inventive step. The Controller cited three prior art references but failed to explain how a person skilled in the art would arrive at the claimed…

August 29, 2022 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents 0Comment 1284Views 0Like

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Weekly Anti-Trust And Privacy Updates

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 26th August 2022 to 2nd September 2022

Weekly Update: Copyright and Entertainment Law

Weekly Trademark Updates

CASE BRIEF : Havells India Limited. vs. Shanghai CET Electric Co. Ltd. & Ors.

CASE BRIEF : Havells India Limited. vs. Panasonic Life Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics – 19th August 2022 to 26th August 2022

Without Proper Inventive Step Analysis, Patent Office’s Order is Unreasoned – Says Delhi High Court

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