Whether you are going to attempt to pursue your patent dreams on your own without the help of a patent practitioner, or whether you will hire a patent attorney or agent to represent you, there are a number of things that you absolutely need to know about the invention and patent process that can [...]
How New Musician can protect their music's Intellectual Property? Kim Umanoff, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Blue Elan Records, LLC, sat down with IPWatchdog to discuss how musicians and bands who are just starting out can protect the IP of their music. Umanoff is the former managing associate at Liner LLP and [...]
The parties before the Court were Narendra Hirawat & Co. (NH) (“Appellant”), and Alumbra Entertainment and Ors., including K Sera Sera (KSS), Z Picture Company (ZPC) and RGV Film Factory (RGV) (“Respondents”). The case revolved around the rights pertaining to the ‘Sarkar’ movie franchise. As is well known, the movie ‘Sarkar’, starring Amitabh Bachchan, [...]
Carlsberg Breweries (‘Plaintiff’) filed a suit before the Delhi High Court against Som Distilleries and Breweries (‘Defendant’) for infringement of its registered design bearing no. 244246, infringement of its registered trade mark/label and passing off its goods and services by adoption of a bottle imitating its registered design, registered trade mark and trade dress [...]
The Plaintiffs and the Respondents had entered into a joint venture to carry on their poker gaming business under ‘www.spartanpoker.com’ from Calcutta, even though the company was based in Maharashtra. This was done as the West Bengal Gambling and Prize Competitions Act, 1957 legalizes poker and does not qualify it as gambling. Plaintiff No. [...]
According to the complaint in the Chipotle case, in 2006, a photographer approached the plaintiff outside of a Chipotle restaurant and asked her to sign a consent form about some photographs taken inside the restaurant. The woman refused, but in 2014 and 2015, she found a photograph of herself edited into promotional materials placed [...]
