Copyrights & Entertainment Law News: Indian Copyright News and Updates, International Copyright Updates, Entertainment Licensing & Merchandizing Updates, Digital Licensing News, BananaIP Copyright Tip of the Week and more presented by the Media & Entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm.
Copyright Thought of the Week
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. - Robin Gross
Indian Copyright News and Updates
Arnab Goswami of Republic TV is accused of Copyright…
Trademark statistics, Trademark infringement, Trademark office updates, Domain name disputes and Geographical Indication updates brought to you by the Trademark team of BIP Counsels.
Trademark quote of the week
" The designer’s role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative" -- Lester Beall
TRADEMARK STATISTICS
The Trademark Registry has been little slow this week. There has been a decrease of 16% in the total number of applications examined…
Interesting Trademarks, Trademark Statistics, Recent Trademark Updates, International Trademark Updates, Licensing Updates, Geographical Indication Updates and more brought to you by Trademark team of BIP Counsels.
Trademark quote of the week
“Trademark law must not be used to inhibit the freedom of speech in this powerful and important medium”
- Kent Wills
Trademark Statistics
The Trademark Registry has been really busy this week. There has been an increase of 33% in the total number of applications examined by Trademark Office for this…
Trademark quote of the week
“The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limit in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet it is still readable” --Saul Bass
TRADEMARK STATS FROM THE INDIAN TRADEMARK OFFICE
The Trademark Registry has been really busy this week. There has been an increase of 124% in the total number of applications examined by Trademark Office for this week compared to the last week.
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Last week
This week
Change in %
Total Trademark applications examined by Trademark Office
3383
7580
An…
BananaIP is happy to announce the Program for Performing Arts, an initiative aimed at helping dance companies, music bands, drama companies, singers and performing artists protect, manage and commercialize their creative work. The Program has three primary goals:
Build IP Knowledge and Culture among Performing Artists;
Protect, Manage and Commercialize creative work of artists and companies; and
Mitigate IP risks for performances and related commercialization, licensing and merchandizing activities.
Towards the said goals, BananaIP's attorneys will work closely…
The name or title is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of a movie which creates a distinct identity for it among audience. Around the globe, the movie makers give a lot of thought and importance in choosing a unique distinct title or name for their film so that the movie could prove to be popular and a blockbuster hit among all classes of audience. This association of title to a film brings the interested audience to watch the film in…
Copyright Infringement, Entertainment tax, Beauty and the Beast, Swarovski, Copyright tips and more, presented by the Media & entertainment law attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm.
Quote of the Week
"Kill Piracy; Save Creativity." - Pirates of Bollywood, Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Renowned IP Attorney, Author and Professor.
Recent entertainment case laws
MSOs and local cable operators liable to collect and pay entertainment tax to the government.
Responding to the pleas filed by multi-system operators (MSOs) and…
ISIC vs ISID, Trademark Rules 2017, Hike in Trademark fees, Star Bucks vs Cake Bucks, Ferraro partners with Global Icon, Pakistan’s Geographical Indication Protection Bill and more, presented by the Trademark attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s Premier New Age IP Firm.
Trademark quote of the week
"Every Trade Mark you Build adds to the financial value of your business, much more than your tangible assets." - Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
Trademark Stats from the Indian Trademark office (28th February 2017…
This weekly update on Trademarks and Geographical Indications (GI) is brought to you by the Trademark experts of BananaIP (BIP) Counsels.
TRADEMARK THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
“A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique” - Primo Angeli
TRADEMARK STATS FROM THE INDIAN TRADEMARK OFFICE, BETWEEN 16th FEBRUARY 2017 TO 21st FEBRUARY 2017
The Trademark office has been very busy during the last week. They have taken several actions with respect to the trademark process.
Total Trademark applications examined by the Trademark Office: 8399
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Intellectual Property updates
Hello there Intellepedia readers. All of us realize that we live in a world where everything is instant. When one can have instant food, instant television and an instant date, why not some instant news? In our endeavour to bring to you Intellectual Property updates from across the globe, we are kick starting today a brand new approach to learning. All we ask of you is to brace yourself for the exciting IP journey ahead!
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