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Cryogas Equipment Private Limited & Anr. v. Inox India Limited & Ors.
Whether an artistic work is a design capable of registration under Section 2(d) of the Designs Act, 2000, so as to lose copyright protection under Section 15(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957 upon industrial reproduction beyond fifty …
Artistic WorkCopyright Design OverlapFunctionalityIndustrial ReproductionPatentsDeepak Nitrite Limited v. The Assistant Controller General of Patents and Designs
It is wholly impermissible for the Controller, while exercising quasi-judicial powers under Section 15, to rely upon 'common general knowledge' as a self-sufficient ground for refusing a patent application without setting out and …
Common General KnowledgeFood Grade Sodium NitriteFree-FlowingImpurity ProfileCopyrightDev Sahitya Kutir Pvt. Ltd. v. Smt. Archana Debnath & Anr.
In a copyright infringement suit, an interim injunction should normally follow once a prima facie case is shown, and an appellate court will not substitute its view where the trial court has taken a possible view on the pleadings.
Copyright InfringementInterim InjunctionLegal HeirsLiterary and Artistic WorksDesignsDiageo Brands B.V. & Anr. v. Alcobrew Distilleries India Pvt. Ltd.
The test for infringement of a registered design under Section 22 of the Designs Act, 2000 is whether the design, viewed by an instructed or knowledgeable observer aware of the prior art, is identical or an obvious or fraudulent i…
Design InfringementFunctionalityNoveltyScope Of Design ProtectionPatentsDr. Aloys Wobben & Anr. v. Yogesh Mehra & Ors.
Section 64(1) of the Patents Act, 1970 grants alternative, not cumulative, remedies for seeking revocation of a patent: a petition before the Appellate Board, or a counter-claim in an infringement suit. Once a person interested el…
Counter-claimElection of RemediesPatent LitigationPatent RevocationCopyrightDr. Ashok M. Bhat v. Harichand Nagpal & Ors.
An injunction against use of a registered artistic work follows the artistic work onto any label, not merely the one impugned in the plaint. In Order XXXIX Rule 2A proceedings justification is no defence: so long as an order stand…
Contempt of InjunctionCounterfeitingExemplary CostsOrder XXXIX Rule 2APatentsE.R. Squibb and Sons, LLC & Ors. v. Zydus Lifesciences Limited
In a quia timet action under Sections 48 and 108, a strong prima facie apprehension of imminent infringement, evidenced by the defendant's own regulatory and manufacturing conduct, can justify an interim injunction; and a biosimil…
BiotechnologyInterim InjunctionPatent InfringementPharmaceutical PatentCopyrightEastern Book Company & Ors. v. D.B. Modak & Anr.
Copyright in a derivative or compiled work requires the exercise of some minimum degree of creativity through the application of skill and judgment, and not merely labour and capital expended in copying. Inputs that involve only m…
Copyright InfringementLiterary WorkOriginalityPublic DomainCopyrightEngineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Private Limited v. Commissioner of Income Tax
A licence to use a copy of software, or to resell it, without transferring any of the rights in Section 14 of the Copyright Act, does not amount to the use of or right to use copyright; payments for it are not royalty under the DT…
Copyrighted ArticleDistribution AgreementsEnd-user Licence AgreementRoyaltyCopyrightEntertainment Network (India) Ltd. v. Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.
An offer to license copyrighted broadcasting rights on unreasonable terms constitutes a refusal under Section 31(1)(b) of the Copyright Act, 1957, and the existence of one voluntary licence does not bar the Copyright Board from gr…
Broadcasting RightsCompulsory LicenceCopyright BoardMusic And Sound Recordings