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S. 53 Patents Act | Should Patent Term Be Counted From Date Of Grant If There Was Delay In Deciding Application? Supreme Court To Decide
The Supreme Court has issued notice on a plea seeking consideration of a mechanism for Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in India, raising the question whether a patentee should receive additional patent protection where a substantial portion of the statutory 20-year term is lost because of delay in granting the patent. A bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe issued a notice in a plea challenging the Calcutta High Court's judgment, which had upheld Section 53 of the...
Can Civil Judge Notified As Commercial Court Hear Trademark Infringement Suits? Supreme Court Refers To Larger Bench
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 21) has referred to a Larger Bench the question whether a Civil Judge (Senior Division) notified as a Commercial Court under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 can entertain a trademark infringement suit, despite Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 expressly prohibiting institution of such suits before a court inferior to a District Court. Section 134...
E20 Petrol Policy: Bombay High Court Orders Takedown Of 'Defamatory' AI Videos Against Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (August 5) ordered takedown of deepfake, AI videos linking Union Minister Nitin Gadkari with the controversial Ethanol-blended fuel policy.Single-judge Justice Arif Doctor has ordered pulling down of all the content as highlighted by Gadkari in his suit, after finding the material to be "per se defamatory."Further, order is issued to remove any other content...
Breaking Green Patent Bottleneck: Is it Time For A “Climate TRIPS Waiver”?
I. The 2026 Dichotomy: Regulatory Sanctions Without Technological SolutionsAs we navigate the second quarter of 2026, the intersection of international trade and environmental jurisprudence has reached a state of critical friction. The global community is no longer debating "if" climate change will disrupt trade, but "how" the law should mitigate the resulting economic disparities. The definitive implementation of the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has fundamentally...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Upholds Facebook's Removal Of Copyrighted Song From User's Page
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has disposed of a petition challenging the removal of content from a Facebook page, holding that the platform acted in accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 after receiving a copyright complaint. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 202]Justice Jagmohan Bansal said, "it is evident that petitioner was...
Bombay High Court Grants Ex-Parte Relief To School Trust After Cybercriminal Threatens To Leak Children's Sensitive Data
The Bombay High Court recently ordered a hacking group - FulcrumSec not to leak or make public, the 'stolen' sensitive information pertaining to children from thousands of schools in Mumbai and abroad run by Pratiksha Foundation Charitable Trust, for which the group has demanded USD 750,000. The High Court has also ordered Google and others to block the email IDs used by the hacking group so...
Madras High Court Stays OTT Release Of Telugu Dubbed Version Of "Drishyam 3"
The Madras High Court, on Wednesday (June 17), restrained the makers of Malayalam movie “Drishyam 3” from releasing the Telugu-dubbed version of the movie on OTT platforms.Justice K Kumaresh Babu passed the interim order on a plea moved by film production company Rajkumar Theatre Pvt Ltd. The company had approached the Madras High Court seeking to restrain the producers and director and...
Two Trademark Applications Filed For 'Cockroach Janata Party'
Two trademark applications have been filed for the phrase “Cockroach Janata Party,” a satirical social media movement that emerged following recent remarks by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant during a Supreme Court hearing.The hashtag #CockroachJanataParty gained traction on social media after the Chief Justice, while hearing a matter last week, made an observation comparing the...
Evolving IP Or Judicial Overreach? India's Personality Rights Problem
The recent Delhi High Court interim order in Allu Arjun v. Frankly Retail Pvt. Ltd. raises important questions regarding use of IP law principles for protection of personality rights in the age of AI, deepfakes, cloned voices, and unauthorised merchandising.It is noteworthy that the present matter is only the latest in a continuing line of decisions where Indian High Courts have recognised and enforced personality rights in favour of well-known public figures. Similar protective relief has...
Copyright And Trademark Enforcement In Digital Audio Industry: A Case Study Of Pocket FM V. Kuku FM
The case of Pocket FM and Kuku FM has become one of the major public disputes in the Indian audio entertainment space.[1] The dispute began in 2022, when Kuku FM (Mebigo Labs Pvt. Ltd.) sued Pocket FM over accusations that Pocket FM had used Kuku FM's licensed Hindi translation of “Mossad.” Although Pocket FM subsequently deleted the audiobook from its catalogue, this first episode revealed uncertainties related to rights management. The rivalry deepened recently, when Pocket FM itself sued Kuku...
CCI v. Swapan Dey: Who Decides Exclusivity Or Exclusion?
When does the exercise of patent rights become an antitrust violation? The apex court is now poised to answer a question that remains at the intersection of “innovation in a healthy competitive market” and “market regulation.” Recently, in Competition Commission of India v. Swapan Dey & Another,[1] the Supreme Court (SC) has stepped into a core jurisdictional conflict to determine whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI), the chief national antitrust regulator in India, can...