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Latest Updates on Antitrust – February, 2022 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Antitrust: CCI Imposes Heavy Penalties On 6 Tyre Manufacturers For Cartelization The Competition Commission of India, the country’s antitrust watchdog, recently passed a cease and desist order and imposed heavy penalties on Apollo Tyres, MRF, CEAT, JK Tyres, Birla Tyres and Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association for cartelization. It was alleged that all the above-mentioned tyre manufacturers together controlled 90% of the tyre production in India and were engaged in price parallelism…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, IP and Antitrust/Competition February 8, 2022 1227Views 2Likes

Latest Updates on Privacy - February, 2022 - Part I

Latest Updates on Privacy – February, 2021 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Central Government addresses concerns about penalising export-import data publication The Central Government had, through the Finance Bill, proposed the insertion of Section 135AA in the Customs Act which would make publishing of export-import data from the country, unless required by law, a punishable offence, with imprisonment of up to six months. Owing to concerns as to ambiguity in the type of data and whether publishing aggregate trade data would amount to…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection February 8, 2022 1068Views 1Like

Purdue University accuses Google of patent infringement, India triples number of patent grants and more

In this week's patent news: India triples number of patent grants, finds Economic Survey 2021-2022; Purdue University accuses Google of patent infringement, files suit; Gilead announces patent dispute settlement involving HIV drug Biktarvy; BlackBerry sells Legacy Patents for 600 million dollars; $85 million award against Apple disregarded, Court orders new trial Indian Patent Updates: India triples number of patent grants, finds Economic Survey 2021-2022 According to the Economic Survey 2021-2022, which was tabled in the Parliament on 31 st…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Patents February 7, 2022 791Views 2Likes

Weekly News Update: Copyright and Entertainment Law

This is the weekly news update for copyright and entertainment law. Japanese publishing giants sue Cloudflare Four giants of manga publishing, Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa, have filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against American web infrastructure company Cloudflare for infringing their copyright by hosting sites that distribute pirated manga on its servers. The publishers are seeking an injunction and a combined 400 million Yen (USD 3.5 million) in damages. Kodansha claims that Cloudflare’s policy of requiring merely an…

BananaIP Reporter Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law February 4, 2022 1788Views 3Likes

Recap 2021: IP Updates – Part 2

In this post we revisit the IP Updates ie., any amendments, ordinances, notifications, and other information related to IP published in the year 2021. For reader's convenience it has been divided into parts, please find the link to the previous and next parts towards the end of this post. COPYRIGHT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECOMMERCE GOVT. NOTIFICATIONS-2021 The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued a notification, through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), introducing the Copyright (Amendment) Rules,…

BananaIP Reporter Biological Diversity, Copyrights, General, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks February 2, 2022 1604Views 5Likes

CASE BRIEF: Samir Kasal vs Prashant Mehta & Ors.

Decided by High Court of Delhi on 19th January 2022. Facts The Plaintiff conceptualized a cricket league format wherein famous retired cricket players would play Test format of cricket with two innings of 10 (ten) overs each. The Plaintiff’s idea intended to exploit the interest in cricket of Indians residing in non-cricket playing countries. The Plaintiff started building up on the concept with the Defendants, and began correspondence with the requisite authorities and people to be involved. The format and information…

BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Copyrights, Intellectual Property February 1, 2022 3001Views 3Likes

CASE BRIEF: Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. vs B. Vijay Sai and Ors.

Decided by Supreme Court of India on 19th January 2022 (Reportable) Facts The Appellant, proprietor and holder of the trademark ‘RENAISSANCE’, had filed a suit against the Respondents for a permanent injunction against the use of the allegedly infringing trademark ‘SAI RENAISSANCE’, as well as any other mark identical to the Respondents’ mark, ‘RENAISSANCE’. The Appellant discovered two hotels being run by the Respondents, in Bangalore and Puttaparthi, and noted that it copied the style, signage, and the word ‘RENAISSANCE’. The Respondents’…

BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Intellectual Property, Trademarks February 1, 2022 5227Views 3Likes

Latest Trademark Cases in 2022 – Part 1

This running post provides a summary of the latest Trademark cases decided by courts in India in 2022: Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. Vs. B. Vijay Sai And Ors. The Appellant, proprietor and holder of the trademark ‘RENAISSANCE’, filed a suit against the Respondents for a permanent injunction against the use of the allegedly infringing trademark ‘SAI RENAISSANCE’, as well as any other mark identical to the Respondents’ mark, ‘RENAISSANCE’. The Appellant discovered two hotels being run by the Respondents, in Bangalore…

BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Intellectual Property, Trademarks February 1, 2022 7895Views 4Likes

Recap 2021: IP Updates – Part 1

In this post we revisit the IP Updates ie., any amendments, ordinances, notifications, and other information related to IP published in the year 2021. For reader's convenience it has been divided into parts, please find the link to the next part towards the end of this post. THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (INTERMEDIARY GUIDELINES AND DIGITAL MEDIA ETHICS CODE) RULES, 2021- A BRIEF NOTE The Government of India through the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MietY) has recently issued a notification, for…

BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property February 1, 2022 1416Views 1Like

Image accompanying blogpost on "Recap 2021 - Indian Copyright Case Laws"

In this post, we bring to you few Copyright Cases decided by Indian Courts in the year 2021:- Sony Pictures Network India Pvt. Ltd. vs. www.sportsala.tv And Ors In this case, Sony Pictures filed a suit against numerous defendants primarily praying for a permanent injunction against reproducing, making available, distributing, broadcasting, and so on of the cricket matches between India’s tours of England and Sri Lanka. During the pendency of the suit, Sony Pictures prayed for an interim injunction asking for more or less…

BananaIP Reporter Case Study, Copyrights, Intellectual Property January 31, 2022 3808Views 4Likes

Celebrating 20 Years of IP Excellence

Latest Updates on Antitrust – February, 2022 – Part I

Latest Updates on Privacy – February, 2021 – Part I

Purdue University accuses Google of patent infringement, India triples number of patent grants and more

Weekly News Update: Copyright and Entertainment Law

Recap 2021: IP Updates – Part 2

CASE BRIEF: Samir Kasal vs Prashant Mehta & Ors.

CASE BRIEF: Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. vs B. Vijay Sai and Ors.

Latest Trademark Cases in 2022 – Part 1

Recap 2021: IP Updates – Part 1

Recap 2021 – Indian Copyright Case Laws

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