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Judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts on patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and geographical indications — organised by Act and section, each with a link to the judgment on the court’s website.
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ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. Open AI OpCo LLC
An Indian court has jurisdiction if the plaintiff's principal place of business is in India, or if the defendant targets Indian users, even when the defendant's servers are located abroad. Even temporarily storing a copyrighted wo…
Artificial IntelligenceCopyright Fair DealingCopyright InfringementJurisdictionCopyrightEntertainment 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 RecordingsPatentsF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. & Anr. v. Cipla Ltd.
A patent claim for a chemical compound is not to be narrowed to a specific polymorphic or crystalline form merely because the specification discusses particular polymorphs, where the claim itself is drafted broadly to cover the co…
Claim ConstructionPatent InfringementPharmaceutical PatentPolymorphDesignsMohan Lal, Proprietor of Mourya Industries v. Sona Paint & Hardwares
Design infringement under the Designs Act, 2000 and passing off are separate causes of action resting on different rights, standards and defences; since a registered design is a time-bound statutory monopoly that enters the public…
Composite SuitCopyright Design OverlapDesign InfringementDesign RegistrationCopyrightOpella Healthcare Group v. Pureca Laboratories Pvt Ltd (Copyright)
A defendant cannot defend a copyright infringement suit on the basis of a registration that has been cancelled by an unchallenged rectification order which found the artistic work to be a copy of the plaintiff's pre-existing get-u…
Artistic WorkColourable ImitationCopyright RectificationLabel DesignTrade MarksSun Pharma Laboratories Ltd. v. Finecure Pharmaceuticals Ltd. & Ors.
Mere delay in approaching the Court is not, by itself, sufficient to refuse an injunction, particularly in the pharmaceutical field where confusion between similar marks may also affect public interest.
Deceptive SimilarityDelayInterim InjunctionPANTOCID