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A long dispute of four years came to an end when the High Court of Birmingham (UK) gave a ruling in favor of Cadbury. The dispute was over the color trademark of Cadbury viz. Purple (Pantone 2685C). In the present dispute Nestle SA, challenged a trademark ruling stating that a color cannot be protected [...]
Patents, an exclusive right granted to the inventor by the government of the country for exploitation of his invention by use, sell or licensing the patent. With patents, inventor tries to cover up and gain from the research inventor has already carried out. Patents are used by an inventor to protect his invention; invention [...]
In current financial year a lot of patent litigations have been filed by one or the other company on their rivals. Today with this article, I tend to bring up a patent rivalry that very hot cake in the market nowadays. This is a patent war going on between Google’s Motorola Mobility and Microsoft [...]
This is a patent war that doesn’t need any introduction. Apple, based in Cupertino, California and Samsung, a South Korean giant in mobile phones have been a biggest enemy in this patent war in IPR sector. Apple sued its component supplier Samsung, alleging in a 38-page federal complaint on 15th April, 2011 in the [...]
Android, a Linux based operating system developed by Google in collaboration with Open Handset Alliance (OHA) has been found to infringe about 17 patents of Apple as well as Microsoft. Android OS is basically used in most of the smartphones and tablets. Android OS have been asked to pay for infringing in some cases [...]
Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is an Indian multinational provider of business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing Services Company. Infosys Ltd. is an IT company that spends a lot on research and development. In last three years, Infosys have spent 2.1 percent of its revenues constantly on research and development, which is best [...]
Year 2012, has been a stupendous year for Indian generic companies. After the grant of first compulsory license to Natco Pharmaceuticals on 5th March, 2012, Cipla won the case against Swiss drug maker F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in the Delhi high court on 7th September, 2012. A single judge bench of Delhi high court [...]
Patents on pharmaceuticals are a contentious issue for many countries around the world, for the obvious reason that the average person in most countries can’t afford to pay for brand-name drugs. The patent battle over Glivec is, needless to say, bitter and complicated. The argument for providing a patent to glivec (imatinib mesylate), a [...]
Today I present to you a case of copyright infringement that deals with fair dealing aspect of Copyright Act, 1957. This is the case between ICC owned subsidiary(Plaintiff No. 1) and a sports broadcasting and content provider which delivers various international and regional sports contents to viewers via its sports channels(Plaintiff No. 2) with [...]
Geographical Indication is used to denote the name or sign, of the products which are from a particular geographical area or somewhat related to the origin like town, region or nation. Thus Geographical Indication gives the rights to its holder, and acts as the certification mark and also shows that the specified product consists [...]
