Intellectual Property Law/business law

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS
Prof. Shrinivas V K
Prof. SVK

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS
• Intellectual property law awards to investors, artists
and institutions certain exclusive rights to produce,
copy, distribute and license goods and technologies.
• IPR s provide incentives to inventors to develop new
knowledge and to authors and artists to create forms of
artistic expression. Thus, over time there are dynamic gains
from the introduction of new products, information and
creative activities.
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Attributes of ‘Property’
• 1.It is scarce [limited]
• 2.It possesses value
• 3.Availability through acquisition or possession
• 4.Inherent quality of satisfying possessiveness
• 5.Uniqueness of uses
SOURCE: Intellectual Property/MBL/NLSIU,Bangalore
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Introduction to Intellectual Property
• The immaterial product of a man’s brains may
be valuable as his land or his goods.
• The law, therefore, gives him a proprietary
right in it, and the unauthorized use of it by
other persons is violation of his ownership,
and considered not less than theft.
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IMPORTANCE OF
I N T E L L E C T U A L P R O P E R T Y
• A] Social Benefits:
Recognition of intellectual property is important
because an inventor or a creator of an idea may
keep it secret either consciously or unconsciously.
Consciously because he wants to exploit his idea fully
through keeping the matter a trade secret . If he
consciously wants to maximize his advantage by
keeping the trade secret, he also runs the danger of
‘reverse engineering’ and consequential non-
protection.
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…….IMPORTANCE OF
I N T E L L E C T U A L P R O P E R T Y
B] New Ideas and New Markets: New
dimension and new ideas have as a rule
opened up new markets for consumer and
industrial goods.
C] Role of Intellectual Property in
Development: The rewards granted to the
innovator/ creator of ideas are reflected by
the benefits which the innovation/ creation
confers on the consumer
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Patent as an asset
• Patent = Property (E.g., House Property)
• Use = Live
• Sell = Sell
• License = Rent
• Mortgage = Mortgage
• Abandon = Abandon
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Who can apply for patents ?
• First and true inventor of the invention.
• An assignee of the first and true inventor
• Legal representative of any deceased person
who was entitled to make such an application
before his death.
• The true and first inventor can have others as
joint applicants.
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Patents
• Patents are granted to individuals and
organizations who can lay claim to a new
product or manufacturing process , or to an
existing product or process which was not
previously known.
• The granting of patent gives the ‘patentee’ a
monopoly to make , use, or sell the invention for a
fixed period of time.
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PATENT ……
• In technical language, it is an official document
conferring an excusive right or privilege on the
inventor of a new thing or process of manufacture
for a term of years to use or sell his invention. After
the expiry of the term of the patent, it becomes
public juris (of public right) i.e., any member of the
public can manufacture that thing or article. The law
relating to parents in India is contained in the
Patents Act,1970 which is based on the English
Patents Act of 1949.
• The Act extends to the whole of India (Sec.1)
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What is patent ?
• “A patent is an exclusive right granted for an
invention, which is a product or a process that
provides, in general, a new way of doing
something , or offers a new technical solution
to a problem.
In order to be paten-table, the invention
must fulfill certain conditions”.
-World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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What does a patent do ?
• What does a patent do ?
A patent provides protection for the
invention to the owner of the patent.
The protection is granted for a
limited period, generally 14 years.
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How to keep patents alive ?
• To keep patents in force, a yearly fee has to be paid.
• The fee goes up with the age of the patent
• Failure to pay fees within the prescribed time leads to lapse
of the patent.
• Patents cannot be renewed at the end of their lifetime when
they lapse.
• The patent then becomes open to all and be used by anyone
without the fear of infringement.
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Advantages of obtaining a patent
• 1.The patentee gets exclusive right to use his invention.
• 2.The patentee can bring a suit for infringement of his
patent.
• 3.If the patentee does not have the means or is not himself in
a position to work the invention patented commercially,
he can sell his patent and grant licenses to others to
exploit, and thereby earn money.
• 4.The holder of an exclusive license would have the rights of
the patentee. He would also be able to enforce such
rights.
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…Advantages of Obtaining a Patent
• 5.The patentee can make improvements in or modification in
an invention described or disclosed in the complete
specification of the main invention and obtain the grant of a
patent for the improvement or modification as a “patent of
addition”. A patent of addition remains in force as long as the
patent for the invention remains in force.
• 6.The grant of a patent enables the inventor to obtain an
official record of his inventor-ship from the Government.
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Important Definitions
• CONTROLLER[Sec.2(1) (b)]. “Controller” means Controller-
General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
• EXCLUSIVE LICENSE [Sec.2(1)(f)]. It means a license from a
patentee (grantee or proprietor of patent) which confers on
the license and persons authorized by him, any right in
respect of the patented invention. The right of the licensee
must be to the exclusion of all others (including the patentee
himself) .“ Executive license” shall be construed accordingly.
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…….Important Definitions
• INVENTION [Sec.2(1)(f). It means a new product or process
involving an inventive step and capable of industrial
application.
• The three basic requirements of an invention are: manner of
manufacture, novelty and utility. Manufacturing primarily
denotes the making of something out of some material, by
application of power in transformation of the material and art
and skill in the process of that improves, restores or
preserves a saleable product.
If the starting material remains unaltered by the process and the product also
remains the same as the starting material, the process cannot be called a
manufacture for the purpose of patent-ability.
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• PATENT [Sec(1) (m)]: It means a patent under the
Patents Act, 1970.
• PATENTED ARTICLE AND PATENTED PROCESS [Sec.2(1)
(o)]:They mean respectively an article or process in
respect of which a patent is in force.
• PATENTEE[Sec.2 (1)(p)]: “Patentee” means the person
for the time being entered on the Register as the
grantee or proprietor of the patent.
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• Medicine or drug[Sec.2(1)(l)] includes-
(1)All medicines for internal or external use of human beings or
animals;
(2)All substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis,
treatment, mitigation or prevention of diseases in human
beings or animals;
(3) All substances intended to be used for in the maintenance of
public health, or the prevention or control of any epidemic
disease among human beings or animals;
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Cont’d………….[Medicine or drug[Sec.2(1)(l)] includes-]
(4) Insecticides, germicides, fungicides, weedicides and
all other substances intended to be used for the
protection or preservation of plants;
(5)All chemical substances which are ordinarily used as
intermediates in the preparation or manufacture of
any of the medicines or substances referred to
above.
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• PERSON[Sec.2(1) (s)]: “Person” includes the
Government.
• PERSON INTERESTED[Sec.2(1)(t)]: “Person interested”
includes a person engaged in, or in promoting,
research in the same field as that to which the
invention relates.
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• TRUE AND FIRST INVENTOR [Sec. 4(1)(y)]: “True and first
inventor” is a person who first made the
invention and applied for the patent. It does
not include either the first importer of an
invention in to India, or a person to whom an
invention is first communicated from outside
India.
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…………TRUE AND FIRST INVENTOR
[Sec. 4(1)(y)]:
• Cont’d………….[TRUE AND FIRST INVENTOR [Sec. 4(1)(y)]]
If two persons have independently made the
same invention and neither has used it or
disclosed it to the world, the one who applies
first for the patent is considered in law the
true and first inventor, although the other
might have made it earlier in time.
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INVENTIONS NOT PATENTABLE
[Sec.3 to 5 of Indian Patent Act,1970]
• WHAT ARE NOT INVENTIONS(SEC.3) It is not in
public interest to grant rights in respect of
certain items, e.g., discovery of a scientific
principle, or an invention injurious to public
health, or a process for the treatment of
human beings, animals or plants, or a method
of agriculture or horticulture.
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Cont’d ….[What is not PATENTABLE in India ?]
The following are therefore not inventions within the meaning of
his Act and hence non patent-able:-
(a) Trifling invention: i.e., an invention which is
frivolous or which claims anything obviously
contrary to well-established natural laws.
(b) Invention prejudicial to public order or
environment, i.e., an invention, the primary or
intended use or commercial exploitation of which,
could be contrary to public order or morality or
which causes serious to human, animal or plant life
or health or to the environment.
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(c) Scientific principle or abstract theory
i.e., the mere discovery of a scientific principle or the
formulation of an abstract theory, or discovery of any living
thing or non-living substance occurring in nature.
(d) Discovery of new property or use of a known substance,
i.e., the discovery of any new property or new use for a
known substance or of the mere use of a known process,
machine or apparatus . If the known process results in a new
product or employs at least one new reactant( a chemically
reacting substance), it will be an invention.
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e) Admixture, i.e., a substance obtained by a mere
admixture( mixing with something) resulting only in
the aggregation of the properties of the components
thereof or a process for producing such substance.
(f) Arrangement , re-arrangement or duplication, i.e.,
the mere arrangement omitted by Amendment
Act,2002 or re-arrangement or duplication of known
devices, each functioning independently of one
another in a known way.
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• (g) A method of agriculture or horticulture
• (i) A process of treating human beings or animals,
i.e., any process for the medicinal, surgical , curative
prophylactic (preventing of disease diagnostic,
therapeutic, or other treatment of human beings or
any process for a similar treatment of animals to
render them free of disease or to increase their
economic value or that of their products.
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• (j) Plants and animals, i.e., plants and animals in
whole or any part thereof other than micro-
organisms but, including seeds varieties and species
and essentially biological process for production or
propagation of plants and animals.
• (k) Mathematical program i.e., a mathematical or
business method or a computer program per se or
algorithms
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• (l) Literary program i.e., a literary, dramatic, musical
or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation
whatsoever including cinematographic works and
television productions.
• (m) Mental act or method of playing game i.e., a
mere scheme or rule or method of performing
mental act or method of playing game.
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• (n) A presentation of information.
• (o) Topography of integrated circuits
• (p) Traditional knowledge, i.e., an invention
which in effect or traditional knowledge or
which is an aggregation or duplication of
known properties of traditionally known
component or components.
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• Inventions relating to atomic energy not patent-
able(Sec.4)
No patent shall be granted in respect of an invention
relating to atomic energy.
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Process and Product Patent
• (1) Meaning of Process Patent: Process patent means
that when a substance is invented or produced a patent is not
granted to the substance itself , but it is only the method or
the process of manufacture of a substance that is granted a
patent.
• (2) Cases where only Process patent is available :It
must be remembered that under the scheme of the Indian
Patent Act,1970, Patent is granted not for the benefit of the
Patentee but for the benefit of the public at large. Therefore
Indian Patent Act,1970 provides only a process patent in
particular cases.
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….Process and Product Patent
• (3)Product Patent and Mandate under the G.A.T.T:
In product patents, patent is granted not to the method or
process of manufacture of a substance but to the substance
itself.
Therefore, it is the “product” that is covered by the patent.
Under the Patents Act, 1970 both product and process
patents are available in India. Now India is a signatory to the
Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property
Rights(TRIPS), India is under obligation to provide Product
patents to all inventions
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APPLICATION FOR PATENTS
[Sec.6 to 11]
• Application entitled to apply for patents(Sec.6):
An application for a patent for invention may be made by any of
the following persons, singly or jointly, that is to say-
1.By any person claiming to be the first and true inventor of the
invention;
2.By the person being the assignee of the person claiming to be
the true and first inventor in respect of the right to make such
application;
3.By the legal representative of any diseased person who
immediately before his death was entitled to make such an
application.
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[Sec.6 to 11]
Form of Application (Sec.7)
• Application for one invention only.
• Application by assignee to be accompanied by
proof of right to apply.
• Applicant to be in possession of invention
• Specifications
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[Sec.6 to 11]
Information and undertaking regarding foreign applications(Sec.8)
Where an applicant for a patent under this Act is prosecuting an application
for a patent in a foreign country in respect of the same or substantially the
same invention, he shall file along with his application-
• (1) A statement setting out detailed particulars
• (2)An undertaking that, up to the date of the acceptance of his complete
specification filed in India
The Controller may also require the applicant to furnish details relating to the
objections, if any, taken to the application filed in a foreign country on the
ground that the invention is lacking in novelty or patent-ability, the
amendments effected in the specifications, the claims allowed in respect
thereof and such other particulars as he may require.
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[Sec.6 to 11]
• Provisional and complete specifications(Sec.9)
Time for filing specifications: Where an
application for a patent is accompanied by a
provisional specification, a complete
specifications within 12 months from the date
of filing application. If the complete
application is not so filed, the application shall
be deemed to be abandoned.
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[Sec.6 to 11]
• Contents of Specifications (Sec.10)
Every specification whether provisional or complete
Shall begin with a title sufficiently indicating the subject matter
to which the invention relates . Every complete specification
shall-
(1)fully describe the invention and it’s operation or use
(2)disclose the best method of performing the invention which
is known to the applicant
(3)end with a claim or claims defining the scope of the
invention for which protection is claimed.
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[Sec.6 to 11]
• Section 11 deals with priority dates for each
claim of complete specification.
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Examination of Application
[Sec.12 to 24]
• Examination of application(Sec.12)
When the complete specification has been filed in
respect of an application for a patent, the application
and the specification relating there to shall be
referred by the Controller to an examiner for making
a report to him in respect of the following matters,
namely-
(1) whether the application and the specification
relating there to are in accordance with the
requirements of this Act and of any rules made there
under:
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……..Examination of Application
[Sec.12 to 24]
• (2) whether there is any lawful ground of objection to the
grant of the patent under this Act in pursuance of the
application. This will include an examination as to formal as
formal matters (like the prescribed form, fees to be paid) and
substantive maters(patent-ability of invention and
specifications);
• (3)The result of investigations made for prior claim
• (4)any other matters which may be prescribed
The examiner shall ordinarily make report to the Controller
within a period of 18 months of such reference.
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Refusal of application (Sec.15)
• Where the Controller is satisfied that the application or
any specification filed in pursuance thereof does not
comply with the requirements of this Act or any rules
made there under, the Controller may either,
(a) Refuse to proceed with the application; or
(b) Refuse the application, specification or drawings to be
amended to his satisfaction before he proceeds with the
application.
If it appears to the Controller is not an invention, or
non-patent-able then he shall refuse the application.
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Infringement of Patents [Sec.104-117]
• This Act grants statutory right to patentee, his agents
and licensees to work or exploit the invention. If
some other person violates these and encroaches
upon their rights, it amounts to infringement.
• Burden of Proof.
In any suit for infringement of a patent, where the
subject matter of a patent is a process for obtaining a
product, the Court may direct the defendant to prove
that the process used by him to obtain the product,
identical to the product of the patented process, is
different from the patented process.
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Penalties [Sec.118-124]
• For unauthorized claim of patent rights-fine
up to Rs.10,000
• Falsification of entries in Registry etc-
Imprisonment up to 2 years or fine of
Rs.10,000 or both.
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The IPR tools can help to preserve the rights of the innovator
against wrongful use by others.
• Various features of the Gillette’s non-electric razor are
protected by 17 patents, which are displayed on the
pack.Gillette, as a name, is a registered trademark in several
countries. Similarly, the U.S-based Golden Valley Microwave
Food Inc.’s Micro-wave Popcorn is protected by number of
U.S patents.
• Globally, patent related disputes and their settlement is on
the rise.
• A sum of $800 million was exchanged in 1994 by way of
licensing fees compared to $300 million in 1991.Texas
Instruments earned $1.2 billion for licensing IPRs.
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TRADEMARKS
• Distinctive design, graphics, logo, symbols, words, or any
combination thereof that uniquely identifies a firm and/or
its goods or services, guarantees the item's genuineness,
and gives it owner the legal rights to prevent the
trademark's unauthorized use.
A trademark must be
(1) distinctive instead of descriptive,
(2) affixed to the item sold, and
(3) registered with the appropriate authority to obtain legal
ownership and protection rights.
• Trademark rights are granted usually for 7 to 20 years and,
unlike in case of patents, are renewable indefinitely.
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LAW OF TRADEMARKS
[Trade & Merchandise Marks Act, 1 958]
• Introduction:
When a person sells his goods under a particular trade mark
he acquires a kind of limited exclusive right to use the mark in
relation to those goods.
• Trade Mark as Intellectual Property:
Trade Mark for long has been identified and grouped along
with patent, design and copy right as a form of intellectual
property.
Trade Marks have gained recognition as signifying property rights on the
basis of that the owner of the trade mark acquired value in the mark by
it’s constant use.
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FUNCTIONS OF TRADE MARK
• It gives an indication to the purchaser about
the identity of the manufacturer or the quality
of the goods.
• It gives the purchases a satisfactory assurance
of the quality.
The purchaser simply would make his purchase on the
implicit faith of the mark being genuine and that it possesses
a quality equal that previously found with same trade mark.
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Where does the statute law step in ?
• The statute, i.e., Trade and Merchandise Marks
Act,1958(herein after TMM) codifies the law and provides
for registration of trade marks already in use and even
those proposed to be used Hence the statute recognizes
ownership of trade marks, and provides various rights there
in.
• In broad terms, the TMM provides for the following:
1.Nature of rights a person can acquire in respect of TM
2.Mode of acquisition and method of transfer of rights
3.Nature of infringements and remedies.
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Statutory Definitions
• 1.Trade Mark:Trade Mark in India is governed by the Trade and
Merchandise Marks Act,1958. A trade mark is defined under section
2(1)(v) as follows..
“Trade Mark” means a registered trade mark or a
mark used to in relation to goods for the purpose of
indicating or so as to indicate a connection in the
course of trade between the goods and some
person having a right as proprietor to use the mark.
• 2.Under Section 2(1)(j) “mark” includes a device, a brand,
heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter or
numeral or any other combination thereof.
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…Statutory Definitions
• 3. “Goods” Goods are simply defined under
TMM Act
as “Anything which is the subject of trade or
manufacture”.
• 4. “Name” A name includes any abbreviation
of a name according to to Section 2(1)(b) of
the TMM Act.
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• 4.3 Different Types of Trade Marks:
1.Letter Mark: Mark includes letter mark
under Section2(1)(j) of the Act. The identity
created out of letter forms have been very
useful elements for designers to work with
and develop successful mark. Some popular
examples of letter marks as trade marks are
IBM, GM, 3M, ELBEE etc.
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• 4.3 Different Types of Trade Marks
2.Symbol:Symbols may take the shape of brands or
logos. A logo is a visual depiction of a manufacturer
or a company and gives an identity to it. Today logos
are identified by consensus as symbols that belong to
a particular company and as representing quality,
elegance etc. The best example of popular logo as a
trade mark are those of Daimler Benz, BMW etc.
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3.Brand: Brand refer to those kinds of
marks which are branded on goods
themselves constituting the trade mark.
For example, Cycle brand of Agarbathis or
Camel Brand Safety Matches.
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Label and Ticket:
Label means a composite mark containing various
features including devices, words, usually painted
on paper and attached to the goods themselves.
The label may contain ,apart from the trademark
even matter which does not have the trade mark
value. A ticket may be said to be a label attached to
goods by a string etc. The exact distinction between
label and ticket is not very clear.
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5.Color Combinations: Color schemes can also constitute
marks within the definition of the Act.
6.Containers: In one of the cases, it was pointed out that, a
container would not fall within the definition of the
mark.Therefore for registration of trade mark ,it is necessary
for an applicant to show the mark in two dimensions, so that
others may more readily know what they must not use in two
dimensions.
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• Certified Trade Mark Sec.2(1)(c):Certified Trade
Mark means a mark adopted to distinguish in
the course of trade, goods certified by any
person in respect of origin, material, mode of
manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other
characteristics, from goods not so certified
and registrable.
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Rights conferred upon registration:
• Rights include;
*Right to use
*Right to license
*Right to sell
*Right to sue (upon infringement).
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Unregistered Trade Mark
• The 1958 Act does not make marks
compulsorily registrable.Therefore, there is no
ban on a person using the mark without being
registered.
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Remedies for Infringement of Unregistered Mark
• If a MARK is unregistered under the 1958 Act then
the civil remedies provided by the Act for
infringement of trade marks cannot be availed by the
person who has been using such unregistered
mark.Section.27(1) provides that, “no person shall
be entitled to institute any proceedings to prevent
or recover damage for infringement of an
unregistered trade mark”.
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Unregistered Trade Mark and
Goodwill
• Trade mark is always considered as an inseparable
part of goodwill of business, as a part of which it is
used.
• The 1958 Act has also incorporated the common law
principle in Section38(1) which reads as follows, “An
unregistered trade mark shall not be assignable or
transmissible except along with the goodwill of the
business concerned”.
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Table of Prohibited Marks
Section.11(a) A mark, use of which is likely to
deceive or cause confusion
11(b) A mark use of which would be
contrary to any law for the time
being in force.
11(c) A mark comprising or containing
scandalous or obscene matter.
11(d) A mark comprising or containing any
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Table of Prohibited Trademark
Section
11(e)
A mark disentitled to
protection on a court of law
12(1) A mark identical or
deceptively similar to a
trade mark actually
registered in respect of the
same description
13 A word which is unaccepted
name.
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Ownership of Trademark and Rights of
Owners
• Registration is not a pre-condition to assume
ownership of trade mark.The ownership in a
mark can be acquired by it’s use on specified
goods or on registration under the Act in
respect of particular goods or particular class
of goods.
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IPR Laws: Copyrights
General Meaning.
Copyright means an exclusive right given
by law for certain period, to an author or
composer of work conferring him the
right to produce copies of work.
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• Object of Copyright:
Copyright deals with the protection of rights of
various types of works, yielding from the
intellectual labor of human being.Therefore it
can be considered as a reward of labor.
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The object of copyright is to encourage
authors, artists and composers to
produce original works by rewarding
them with exclusive rights for a limited
period.
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• Relevance of Copyright Law: Copyright
protection is essential to encourage
exploitation of copyrighted work for the
benefit of the public by entrepreneurs,
like publishers, film producers, or sound
recorders.
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• International Implications of Copyright
Law: Copyright has gained international
dimension because being an intellectual
property it is transferred more easily and
quickly across national boundaries.
• The speed with which intellectual
property can be copied today has led to
large scale infringement of copyrights .
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Copyright
• The Indian CopyrightAct,1957 governs
the system of copyrights in India.
[Amended in 1982, 1984, 1992, 1994 &
1999]
• Meaning : It is a right which Grants
protection to the unique expression of
Ideas.
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Original
• The term original in the copyright
law means that the work
originated with the author.
• There is no requirement for
novelty or uniqueness as there is
in patent law.
• Copyright law protects the
expression of an idea. Not the
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Literary Films Dramatic
Musical Sound RecordingArtistic
What is covered by copyright?
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What is not covered by copyright?
• Ideas
• Facts
• Recipes
• Works lacking originality (e.g. The phone book)
• Names, titles or short phrases
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• What to be protected by Copyright:
For a work to be protected under the copyright
there must be sufficient “skill, labor and
judgment” or “selection, Judgment and
Experience”.
Copy protects the skill and labor employed by
the author.
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Copyrights
• Copyright protects form and not
idea.
• Work must be in a permanent
form.
• Copyright must be distinguished
from monopoly right.
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Registration Procedure
• Register a copyright by completing a
simple application form, along with the
appropriate fee
• Need not send a copy of your work,
• It may appear with the same title, but if
each work has been created
independently, each will have its own
copyright protection.
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Duration of Copyright
Copyright lasts for the-
 Author’s lifetime + 50 years from the end
of the calendar year in which the author
dies,
 50 years for films and sound recordings,
 25 years for typographical arrangements
of a published edition,
 Copyright protection always expires on
December 31 of the last calendar year of
protection.
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How much can I use?
• Photos and images - up to 5 works
from one author; up to 10% or 15
works, whichever is less, from a
collection
• Database information - up to 10% or
2500 fields or cell entries, whichever
is less
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What constitutes Infringement?
• Any reproduction, use , distribution,
performance, etc. of the work without
the permission of the owner.
• An identical or substantial similar
reproduction is also covered
• Infringement – Damages - Injunction
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Remedies for Patent Infringement
• A suit can lie in the District
or
High court ,
• It may issue an injunction
either to prevent the
infringer from any further use
& award damages to the
patent owner or will pay the
patent owner royalties for
further use.
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Apple sued HTC over iPhone patents
•Apple sued phone maker HTC and
has filed a complaint with the U.S.
International Trade Commission,
alleging that the Taiwanese company
is infringing 20 Apple patents related
to the iPhone
•Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said in a
statement "We think competition is
healthy, but competitors should
create their own original technology,
not steal ours."
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Remedies for Trademark Infringement
A suit can lie in District
or High court
• Punishment extends from
6 months to 3 years
• A permanent bans on
engaging in commercial
activities
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COPYRIGHT CLAIMS ON THE BASIS OF
UNDERLYING ARTISTIC WORKS
Ritika Limited v. Ashwani Kumar Ritika Limited v. Nina Talukdar
Ritika Limited v. Sajid Mobin
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“…but I didn’t know!”
• Called “Innocent Infringement”
• Occurs when infringer was unaware that
things were Protected.
• No excuse if work properly displays..
–“Patent”
–Trademark symbol: ®, TM, SM
–Copyright notice: © + name + year
Example: Utsav Sarees © 2011-
2012
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Intellectual Property Law/business law

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