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This Certificate Course is a specialized course that explores the dynamic relationship between copyright law, technological innovation, and creative expression in the digital era. Rapid advancements in technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, social media platforms, digital content distribution systems, and open-source models have transformed the manner in which creative works are produced, disseminated, and consumed, giving rise to novel legal and policy challenges.
DSNLU Journal of Science, Technology & Law invites original submissions on intellectual property and technology law for Volume 4, Issue 2, with abstracts due by 24 October 2026. Write up CALL FOR Paper – CIPR
This seminar brings together students, lawyers, research scholars, professionals to confront a pressing question: Who really owns knowledge, and who gets left outside the gates?
The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), in association with the Kerala Judicial Academy, is organising a three-day seminar on “Music, Cinema and Law”, which will bring together leading voices from the judiciary, government, legal academia and the creative industry. The seminar will feature addresses by the Chief Minister of Kerala, a Judge of the Supreme Court of India and the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, among other eminent speakers.
The parties have been directed to appear before the Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre on 17 July 2026, while the appeal has been listed before the Division Bench on 21 August 2026 to report the outcome of the mediation proceedings.
MNLU Mumbai is organising an Online Certificate Course on the Protection of Trade marks, Copyrights, Designs, Geographical Indications, and Plant Varieties & Farmers’ Rights from 15 to 20 June 2026. The course offers participants a comprehensive understanding of key intellectual property rights regimes in India, making it ideal for law students, academicians, researchers, legal professionals, and IP enthusiasts. Registrations are open until 14 June 2026.
“An applicant cannot be permitted to reap the benefit of an illegality, as any such registration would be nothing but the fruits of a poisonous tree.”
CGPDTM has published 13 new well known trademarks in accordance with their statutory publication under Rule 124(5) of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017.
“Once the infringing goods were available for sale, the tort of infringement, which predicates use of the infringed mark, or a mark which is deceptively similar thereto, for trade, stood committed.”
“The balance of convenience lies in favour of the Plaintiff, and if the Defendants are not restrained, the Plaintiff would suffer irreparable injury which cannot be adequately compensated in terms of money.”
The grievance of the plaintiff arose from the manufacture, sale, promotion, and distribution of merchandise such as T-shirts, posters, mugs, keychains, and other products bearing his name, photographs, likeness, and persona, without authorisation.
“The applicant was seeking monopoly over matters in which ex-facie no copyright subsisted to begin with, like common themes, ideas, unoriginal/stocks/scenes-a-faire matters, and other aspects directly flowing from such elements.”
This blog series endeavours to initiate a conversation around the dynamic evolution of Intellectual Property law in India and globally centred around the theme Ideas in Motion: Contemporary Frontiers in Intellectual Property Law.
“A bare perusal of the provision provides that it was mandatory for the respondents to comply with the same before removing the Trade Mark from their register.”
Presidency University, founded in 2015, is a part of the Presidency Group of Institutions
Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad in Collaboration with SpicyIP
The Indian Arbitration Law Review (“Journal”) is an annual double-blind peer-reviewed journal of the National Law Institute University
EBC Author and Partner at Fox Mandal & Associates, Saurabh Bindal has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Manipal
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