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Latest Copyright Cases – 2021 – Part 5

M/s. Sun TV Network Ltd. v. M/s. Nitin Productions & Anr Defendant Nitin Productions assigned the copyright of the film “HUDUGAATA” in favour of the Plaintiff after receipt of the agreed consideration. By virtue of the agreement, the Plaintiff became the absolute copyright owner of the aforementioned film which included satellite rights, radio rights and other similar rights perpetually. However, Defendant M/s. Public TV, telecast songs from the film without obtaining prior permission. The Plaintiff, which held the copyright of…

November 10, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 2549Views 0Like

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Latest Updates on Antitrust – November, 2021 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: Competition Commission of India issued orders against firms guilty of bid-rigging and cartelization The Competition Commission of India (CCI), India’s fair markets watchdog, found that six firms had engaged in cartelization in the supply of Low-Density Poly Ethylene covers (LDPE) to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) by determining prices, allocating tenders, coordinating bid prices, and manipulating the bidding process directly or indirectly. CCI issued a cease-and-desist order against the…

November 9, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition 0Comment 898Views 0Like

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Weekly Patent Statistics- 22nd October 2021 to 29th October 2021

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics- 22nd October 2021 to 29th October 2021

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 29th of October 2021. 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 1,986 patent applications have been published in the 44th issue of the Patent Journal, 2021. Out of the 1,986 applications published in the journal, 494 applications account…

November 3, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics, Patents 0Comment 973Views 2Likes

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Weekly Patent Statistics- 13th October 2021 to 22nd October 2021

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics- 13th October 2021 to 22nd October 2021

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 22nd of October 2021. 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 1,019 patent applications have been published in the 43rd issue of the Patent Journal, 2021. Out of the 1,019 applications published in the journal, 98 applications account…

October 27, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Industrial Designs, Intellectual Property, Patent & Design Statistics, Patents 0Comment 1049Views 1Like

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Weekly Trademark Office Statistics – October 2021 – Part III

This weekly Trademark Office data has been compiled from dynamic data published by the Trademark Office as updated till 20th October, 2021. These statistics are presented to you by the Trademark and Copyright team of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. Indian Trademark Statistics A decrease of twenty-five percent (25%) in the total number of trademark applications examined by the Trademark Office this week. A total of four thousand one hundred and ninety-four (4194) applications were examined. These statistics have…

October 21, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1032Views 1Like

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Latest Updates on Privacy – October 2021 – Part II

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Data Protection Bill report to be finalised The Parliamentary Joint Select Committee is set to finalise its report on the Data Protection Bill following a reshuffle of its members. Reports suggest that no substantial changes will be brought about to the Bill, however, certain members are said to hold objections to a single Data Protection Authority for the country, with a suggestion to create Data Protection Authorities for States. Suggestions…

October 21, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 1017Views 0Like

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Latest Updates on Antitrust – October 2021 – Part II

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: Allegations of Amazon India's anticompetitive practices sparks demand for US antitrust probe Ecommerce giant Amazon is accused of manipulating search results to boost its own product lines. Thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents show the company ran a systematic campaign. The Confederation of All India Traders, a group representing India's brick-and-mortar retailers, called for a government investigation of Amazon. An exposé by Reuters has shown how the business copied…

October 20, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition 0Comment 1105Views 0Like

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Saregama India Limited v. Next Radio Limited & Ors. The Apex Court, in the instant case, set aside an interim order passed by the Madras High Court, which held that copyrighted material cannot be broadcasted without prior notice as per Rule 29(4) of the Copyright Rules, 2013. The High Court had modified specific provisions of the Rule and applied it to the broadcasters, by opining that the Rule lacked flexibility and created difficulties for the broadcasters. The mandate to furnish…

October 20, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 3111Views 1Like

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Muthoot Finance Limited vs Shalini Kalra & Ors In this case, the Plaintiff, Muthoot Finance Limited, a non-banking financial institution, provided business and personal loans against the deposit of gold jewellery. As a part of this business the Plaintiff had to maintain proprietary and confidential information related to its vast customer base in the form of a database which in turn constituted a ‘literary work’ as under Section 2(o) of the Copyright Act, 1957 and it also amounted to trade…

October 20, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Copyrights, Intellectual Property 0Comment 4272Views 1Like

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Latest Trademark Cases in 2021 – Part 10

Geetanjali Studio Private V. Nuxi To Kut N Kurl Private Limited In this case, Geetanjali Studio Private, the Plaintiff filed an application under Order 39 Rule 1 and 2 of the Civil Procedure Code 1908 seeking prima facie ex-parte injunction to restrain Nuxi To Kut N Kurl Private Limited, the Defendant, from offering for sale of any services or goods under the marks GEETANJALI, GEETANJALI SALON, GEETANJALI STUDIO or any other identical or deceptively similar marks. The Plaintiff entered into…

October 20, 2021 BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 2648Views 1Like

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Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

Latest Copyright Cases – 2021 – Part 5

Latest Updates on Antitrust – November, 2021 – Part I

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics- 22nd October 2021 to 29th October 2021

Weekly Patent and Industrial Design Statistics- 13th October 2021 to 22nd October 2021

Weekly Trademark Office Statistics – October 2021 – Part III

Latest Updates on Privacy – October 2021 – Part II

Latest Updates on Antitrust – October 2021 – Part II

Latest Indian Copyright Cases – 2021 – Part 3

Latest Trademark Cases in 2021 – Part 10

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