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India first enacted the Copyright law in the year of 1847 in the regime of East India Company. In the last 165 years, the copyright laws were amended several times to cater the needs of the changed social environment. Some changes are minor and some are the major changes. However, three major distinctive changes in the law brought the present generation copyright acts of today. In the year of 2010, Government realized that the last sweeping amendments of 1994 and minor changes afterwards did not meet the demand of the current situation. In the last few years, the tremendous growth of digital technology has totally changed the social environment. The advent of internet and the computer technology have posed a challenge to the old concept of protecting the rights of artistic works.

In this context, Government of India felt the need to amend the copyright law to cope with the present situation. The Government sought the opinions from the copyright related people to know their views about the nature of amendments. After long discussions, the Government of India has placed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 on the table of Parliament in 2010. Loksabha passed the bill on 22nd May, 2012 and Rajyasabha also passed it on 17th May.

The main objective of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, 2010 is to protect all types intellectual property rights in the digital age. The new digital technology includes computer networks, satellite communications, electronic resources and devices. The salient features of the new bill are:-

• The author of a literary or musical work will now get a level playing field to negotiate the terms and conditions of the royalty with the publishers and producers. The creators will also get the equal share of royalties for the exhibition of their creation except in the case of the public show in cinema hall. Therefore, the exhibitors have to share the royalty with the author of creative art for a private show. The permitted exceptions are copyright societies and legal heirs to whom an author may assign the right.

• The new bill has included the following clause to provide the relief to the physically handicapped or disabled people. The amendment has exempted the works done for the benefit of physically handicapped person in Braille and other mode of communication system, from the copyright law. Moreover, the amendment also exempt copies created in non-special formats for the non-profit organization works.

• The exemption has also extended to the students for using literary, artistic, music, theater and cinematographic work for research purposes.

• According to the new amendment, it will be mandatory to pay royalties to the owners of the copyright for broadcasting each time the work in television and radio.

The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010 is now is waiting for President’s confirmation and gazette notification. As soon as the bill will be notified in the gazette, the bill will come into the force. The new amendment will help to build a strong and vibrant new India protecting the rights of creative people.

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IP Audit

Owning the IP is not enough, it’s exploitation holds more value but you also don’t want to violate anyone else’s rights and want to know about the risk and remedy and then go ahead with your IPR protection. How will that happen? The answer to this question is “IP Auditing”. IP auditing involves undertaking a comprehensive review of a company’s IP assets, related agreements, relevant policies and compliance procedures. In this process, we will assess all the intangible assets owned by you. We will provide you with a systematic report on our findings and then we will help you in finalizing the next course of action which should be taken from your end. IP Audit holds great importance because it gives you a proper line of action to protect your IPRs and to enforce the same. These are the most important steps which should be followed in order to get a better protection over your IPR.

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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

BBV stands for ‘Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA’, is the second largest banking group in Spain, born out of the merger of Banco de Bilbao and Banco de Vizcaya to form Banco Bilbao Vizcaya. In the subsequent years, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya merged with Banco Argentaria resulting in the establishment of BBVA in 1999.

In the year 2016 BBVA acquired Finnish online banking start-up Holvi, based in Helsinki, Finland. The giant banking group with every feat established a new mark and in the year 2018, set an example for other organizations as they pledged to fight against climate change which aims to mobilize €100 billion by 2025 for green financing, sustainable infrastructure and financial inclusion.

Today it is one of the most active organizations on the world stage in this field and the indisputable leader in Spain and Italy. This makes it our ‘Today’s Trademark’ having registration no. 2705771 under USPTO.

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IP Valuation

IP valuation is the method of fixing the monetary value of one’s Intellectual Property Rights. IP valuation decides the amount of money one will get when the IPR will be sold or licensed. There are various factors which decide the monetary value of the IPR such as money and time spent on the registration of the IP, the market value of the product, the amount of money spent on advertising, purchase and sale of asset etc. Now main question arises why IP valuation should be done at the very first place? IP valuation helps you in getting to know your IP and its current market standing which in a way it helps you when you’re IP is being sold, during the time of merger and acquisition, insurance of IP assets etc. All these ultimately help in commercializing your intangible assets.

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What is Trademark Registration?

The process of registering a legal authority on any company, considering every country has individual and unique symbols to represent the company in national and international level, is called Trademark Registration. It can be on the name of business man or business, or logo or any symbol depicting its vision and mission. When a firm or any organization registers a trademark then the trademark becomes the property of that organizational entity. If the company wants to establish the firm globally then, the firm has to follow the international judiciary system. There are many international service providers that can help you in getting the detailed knowledge.

International recognition is obtained from establishing an authority on the registered tagline or a symbol. In India, it is the phenomenon that refers to source, cheap watches, sponsorship, affiliation or other business relationship of the goods or services. Basically, it is an intellectual property that pertain monopoly right over any symbol or logo. E.g. if pepsico chooses “Ye Dil Mange More” i.e. Desire more, as their official tag line hence no one after can choose this tagline for any kind of advertisements and sponsorships.

According to the rules of litigation of trademark laws, a company can register the case against another company for using duplicate trademark. The rules of litigation are under civil law suits. The basic purpose of the trademark is that it makes an individual identity and helps in solving some disputes and controversies over some issues.

How to Register a Trademark

Before registering a trademark, we have to do trademark search to check if we are using the duplicate trademark or not. The Free Trade Mark search is available in many websites. This can provide you detail information on each and every trademark that has been used. After the search we can register it through online

The process is same for the logo also. Setting up the trademark is the 1st thing required for branding.

Things to Remember, while registering a Trademark!

1. Trademark search must be proper so that you are able to get proper information on the trademark you want to register.
2. Assure the lawsuit of the particular Country while registering
3. Last and most important is that you must consult legal consultant office.

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TRADEMARK-LOCKHEED MARTIN

“Lockheed Martin” is the largest innovation and aerospace company. The history runs back to 16th August 1912, when Glen L. Martin started his company after his first successful aircraft.

On December 19th, 1912, seaplanes were introduced by Allan and Malcon Lockheed in San Francisco. In 1995, the day of global revolution arrived when the said companies merged as “Lockheed Martin Corporation”, the pioneer in the area of business, aeronautics, missiles, and space, having stacks of achievement to their credit. The company has created a name for itself by having the largest number of government contracts like the FBI and CIA.

In 2018, Lockheed Martin was ranked at 59 in the Fortune 500 list for largest corporations of United States in terms of total revenue making it to the Today’s Trademark bearing registration no. 2022037 in the USPTO.

Any person who can be individual, company, proprietor or legal entity claiming to be the owner of the trademark can apply. If you don't know How to Apply for Trademark Registration in New York then you should contact one of the Best Trademark Law Firm in New York. We have experienced trademark lawyers. The basic source of our team’s strength and commitment lies in our dedication towards the discipline.

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Movie title has no copyright: Madras High Court

Now-a-days, copyright infringement has become a serious issue in the Indian scenario. The term copyright means an exclusive right of the owner/author of the work preventing others to copy the artistic, literary and dramatic work. Problem comes in finding out the scope of the work on which copyright subsists.

In a recent case namely, M/S.Lyca Productions vs J.Manimaran on 22 February 2018 Madras High Court held that copyright doesn’t subsist in movie titles. It not only decided the scope of copyright but also states that the rules of the trade association not binding upon non-members as well.

The events of the cases started in 2011, when a Tamil movie named “KARU” got copyright registered by Plaintiff. Now, according to Film & Television Producers Guild of South India, once the title of the movie is registered no other member of the association can use that name in their movie.

On other hands, another movie titled “LYCAVIN KARU” of Lyca Productions started advertising which resulted in conflict with the plaintiff. Later on the plaintiff approached to the High Court to seek a permanent injunction against the defendant.

The question arose is whether the movie titles holds the copyright or not. The plaintiff stated that they have copyright over the movie title “KARU” and the registered title cannot be used by adding and suffix and prefix. They further urged that using similar title to the movie can be termed as unfair competition. The term unfair competition is a deceptive business practice, which would give a false impression in the minds of the viewer that the similar movie title has connection with each other.

The judgement was based on two cases such as Krishika Lulla and others v. Shyam Vithalrao Devkatta and another and T.Pandiyan Arivali v. Kamal Hassan. The two cases are of paramount importance, because in the earlier case it was held that “a title is not an original literary work” and in the later it was held that “The definitions in sections 13 and 14 of the copyright act, 1957, do not go beyond the literary work or musical work and the title ordinarily of any such work is not a part of composition or work of the author or the composer.

His workmanship is confined to the work and not to the title”. In the current case there is no originality in the title “KARU”. KARU means “foetus”, which is common. The title has not acquired any goodwill or reputation. The court also considered the view taken by the American courts.

Now American Courts have taken uniform view that title alone of a literary work cannot be protected by Copyright Law. Copying of a title alone, and not the plot, characterization, dialogue, song etc. is not the subject of Copyright Law. Thus, a copyright on a literary work would not include exclusive right to use the title on any other work.”

It was held by the Madras High court that there subsists no copyright over the title. The producers are not mandated to become the member of the society. Membership to such societies are optional, thus this doesn’t bound the non-members to follow their rules.

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“Intellectual Property Rights”, this simple yet very complex thing holds very huge importance in your business enterprise. We understand that as laymen it is difficult to know about the technicality involved in this field and that’s why we are here. IP consultation gives you an opportunity to ask all your questions related to IPR. Starting from what can be protected to why it should be protected.

We can help you starting from recognizing your IPR. There might be chances that you yourself don’t know what all IPRs are you are surrounded with. Then it becomes our job to help you in identifying all the IPRs. Once the IPRs have been identified, it is of paramount importance to check that whether these IPRs are infringing anyone else’s IPR or not. Now if these IPRs are not protected we will also help you in getting registration over the IPRs. Apart from these at any point of time whenever you will need any legal assistance from our end, we will help you at every stage. The first thirty minutes of your consultation will be absolutely free. We can assure you that all your IPR related query will be completely answered until those are not resolved. If you are looking for Intellectual Property Law Firm in US then contact Lex Protector.