Web Series: Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Starring: Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Rajat Kapur, Satish Kaushik, Anant Mahadevan, Nikhil Dwivedi and others Director: Hansal Mehta Year of Release: 2020 The Indian Web Series space has taken quite a turn where only the Content is the king. Earlier, ‘Mirzapur’ and ‘Paatal Lok’ had received rave…
Hindustan Pencils (P) Ltd. v. India Stationery Products Co. and Anr. AIR 1990 Delhi 19 Plaintiff adopted the mark Nataraj with the device of dancing Nataraj in 1961 and got the same registered. Plaintiff’s Case: Plaintiff got to know somewhere in the middle of the year 1985 that the Defendants had registered a copyright similar…
Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Prods. Co. 514 U.S. 159 (1995) Supreme Court of the United States Brief Facts of the case: Petitioner (Qualitex) used a special shade of green-gold colour on the pads that is made and sold to dry cleaning firms for use on dry cleaning presses since 1950s. In 1989, Respondent started using…
SEASON 1 BONUS EPISODE – 3rd August, 2020 On the fine morning of 2ndof August 2020, Mr. Ankit Rastogi woke me up from my bed, to discuss not so much of a eureka moment. He wanted me to provide him an off the cuff patentability analysis of the invisibility band used by Mr. Arun Verma…
Phoolan Devi v. Shekhar Kapoor and Ors. 57 (1995) DLT 154, 1995 (32) DRJ 142 BRIEF FACTS: Plaintiff entered into a Contract with Defendant No. 5 to grant Defendant No. 5 sole and exclusive right to make a cinematograph film on her writings (based on Indian banditry and on her life). It was also agreed…
Dharampal Premchand Ltd. v. Golden Tobacco Products 2007(34) PTC 633 (Del.) (DB) Decided on: 08.05.2007 Plaintiff had filed a suit for infringement of it’s trademark ‘BABA’, for breach of it’s copyright and for passing off. The Defendant filed an application under Order VII Rule 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 seeking rejection of…