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  • BIGHIT Music asserts strong legal action to protect BTS' rights against infringement

    BIGHIT Music asserts strong legal action to protect BTS' rights against infringement

    To protect the popular K-Pop band BTS's intellectual property rights over its creations, BIGHIT Music has shared updates regarding their decisive legal actions against any infringement, unauthorised use or violation of the group's rights.

  • Bluevine Business Checking Review 2024: Pros, Cons, & Cost

    Bluevine Business Checking Review 2024: Pros, Cons, & Cost

    Learn about the features, benefits, and fees of Bluevine's business banking services with our review. Simplify your financial management with this bank.

  • NYT Vs OpenAI: Indian IP laws not equipped to address AI-related issues, say experts

    NYT Vs OpenAI: Indian IP laws not equipped to address AI-related issues, say experts

    NYT’s suit against Microsoft and OpenAI raises an important question: how equipped Indian courts are to adjudicate such issues, should a case be filed? While the Copyright Act of 1957 exhaustively covers the infringement of copyrights, it is yet to upgrade itself vis-à-vis technological advancements and their interface with IP.

  • Innovative start-ups push boundaries on IPRs; but challenges remain

    Innovative start-ups push boundaries on IPRs; but challenges remain

    The second edition of the Great Indian IP Feast focussed on not just expanding the understanding of IP in niche areas, but also deliberated on the need to protect IP rights.

  • How to Register a Business in the US: Expert Tips for 2024

    How to Register a Business in the US: Expert Tips for 2024

    Learn how to register a business with our comprehensive walkthrough. Get step-by-step guidance and start your entrepreneurial journey today.

  • Delhi HC bars Zydus Wellness from using ‘SugarLite’ brand name

    Delhi HC bars Zydus Wellness from using ‘SugarLite’ brand name

    Overturning a lower court’s order against the Make in India firm, the Delhi High Court held that Zydus Wellness adopted the brand name ‘SugarLite’ knowing fully well that Delhi Marketing owned it.

  • Semiconductor talent ecosystem already exists, now focus on owning IP in India: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

    Semiconductor talent ecosystem already exists, now focus on owning IP in India: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

    From the 2023-24 academic year, the Indian higher education system and the skilling ecosystem will start focusing on creating and producing world-class semiconductor engineers and semiconductor technicians, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar

  • Delhi High Court sets aside registration of ‘Swiss Military’ trademark by private company

    Delhi High Court sets aside registration of ‘Swiss Military’ trademark by private company

    The HC has clarified that trademark registration must be seriously guarded, and any instance of a false trade description is not registrable

  • Delhi High Court interim order | Amitabh Bachchan’s voice is his alone

    Delhi High Court interim order | Amitabh Bachchan’s voice is his alone

    The Delhi High Court’s interim order restraining anyone from infringing the superstar’s personality, voice and publicity rights is a breakthrough for Indian celebrity IPR.

  • ICT services export, market sophistication helps India to move up in Global Innovation Index

    ICT services export, market sophistication helps India to move up in Global Innovation Index

    India jumped six spots to be ranked 40th in this year’s edition of the index.

  • India needs to be superpower in Intellectual Property: PM's adviser Amit Khare

    India needs to be superpower in Intellectual Property: PM's adviser Amit Khare

    At the 72nd foundation day of IIT Kharagpur on Thursday, Khare stressed the need for linking our past knowledge with the future, saying institutions like IITs have a role to play in it.

  • P.V. Sindhu joins Michael Jordan, Pele, Muhammad Ali in image rights battle

    P.V. Sindhu joins Michael Jordan, Pele, Muhammad Ali in image rights battle

    As P.V. Sindhu challenges companies that promoted themselves in the guise of congratulating her, she becomes yet another case of a famous athlete needing legal recourse to protect image rights.

  • Nasscom plans to get top US universities to work with Indian tech startups on cutting-edge research

    Nasscom plans to get top US universities to work with Indian tech startups on cutting-edge research

    India’s software product ecosystem has suffered in the absence of a robust academia-industry partnership, and the IT industry body is trying to take it to the next level.

  • ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ is leaving YouTube after $760,999 NFT sale

    ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ is leaving YouTube after $760,999 NFT sale

    Lately, the Disaster Girl meme, Nyan Cat, Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, and a clip of LeBron James blocking a shot in a Lakers basketball game have also been sold in NFT auctions.

  • TRIPS pact waiver for tackling COVID-19 to help save lives, recover trade: India to WTO

    TRIPS pact waiver for tackling COVID-19 to help save lives, recover trade: India to WTO

    The proposal for temporary waiver from certain provisions of TRIPS agreement is first on priority list, he has said during the formal TNC (trade negotiations committee) and informal HODs (head of delegations) meetings on May 3.

  • IP protection: US puts India on Priority Watch List

    IP protection: US puts India on Priority Watch List

    In India, the USTR said patent issues continue to be of particular concern as long-standing issues remain for innovative industries.

  • US places 10 countries including India on 'Priority Watch List' for IP protection

    US places 10 countries including India on 'Priority Watch List' for IP protection

    In its report, the USTR said that India had been placed on the Priority Watch List for lack of sufficient measurable improvements to its IP framework on "long-standing and new challenges" that have negatively affected US right holders over the past year.

  • YouTube improves its copyright claim system

    YouTube improves its copyright claim system

    YouTube has introduced a host of new rules, one of the most important of those being to make video uploaders manually file for copyright infringement claims replete with precise timestamps

  • US places India again on priority watch list on IP protection

    US places India again on priority watch list on IP protection

    In its latest 2018 Special 301 Report, the US Trade Representative has placed 12 countries on its Priority Watch List.

  • Expect India's rank to improve in global intellectual property index: Global Innovation Policy Center official

    Expect India's rank to improve in global intellectual property index: Global Innovation Policy Center official

    India languished near the bottom in the index last year, ranking 43rd out of 45 global economies.

  • 'Intellectual Property protection a key issue for India-US relationship'

    'Intellectual Property protection a key issue for India-US relationship'

    Prime Minister Modi's US visit represents an opportunity for the Indian government to renew its commitment as a good- faith economic partner and to embrace pro-growth policies that will mutually benefit American and Indian innovators alike, it said.

  • Sonata Software Q2 net profit dips 4% to Rs 37.8 cr

    Sonata Software Q2 net profit dips 4% to Rs 37.8 cr

    IT services firm Sonata Software today said its consolidated net profit declined 4 per cent to Rs 37.8 crore for the September quarter, impacted by forex movement and additional investment in intellectual property (IP) development.

  • Expect second half of FY17 to be positive: Persistent Systems

    Expect second half of FY17 to be positive: Persistent Systems

    In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Anand Deshpande, Founder, MD & CEO of Persistent Systems said that intellectual property (IP) business is traditionally weak in Q2.

  • LeEco acquires US-based VIZIO for $ 2 billion

    LeEco acquires US-based VIZIO for $ 2 billion

    As part of the definitive agreement, LeEco will acquire all of the VIZIO hardware and software operations, technology and intellectual property and the transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2016, LeEco said in a statement.

  • Donald Trump promises new, fair trade policy for US

    Donald Trump promises new, fair trade policy for US

    Trump said he will never sign any trade agreement that hurts US workers, or diminishes its freedom and independence.

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