Intellectual Property & Tech

12+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1759+ words) Some of Connecticut's strangest history is preserved not in museums, but in patent drawings. They are there in black and white, with numbered parts and serious descriptions. A machine that tried to shake away hiccups. A tiny metal guard for…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (485+ words) SoundExchange and Music Nation Copyrights Management (MusicNation) announced a reciprocal agreement on September 17, 2026, enabling cross-border neighboring rights administration between the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The arrangement creates a route for participating artists and rights owners to…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (301+ words) Yet, in multiple areas, tax law and IP law remain out of step. This article: The central thesis is that India needs a clearer statutory bridge between IP-law ownership/contractual rights and their treatment under income-tax provisions. Indian IP statutes…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (165+ words) There's the case of the Carlton dance and Fortnite, where the creator of the dance tried to say, "Fortnite, you can't use that because that is a copyrighted work!" In the end, the Copyright Office's finding was that the dance…...

9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (179+ words) Trademark law is in the spotlight with a couple of key cases making the news. British Car Manufacturer McLaren has applied to trademark the Auckland suburbs of Remuera and Muriwai – potentially for their first SUV. And NZ Rugby has taken…...

14+ hour, 4+ min ago   (235+ words) Delhi High Court restrained the use of Reliance Industries Ltd.’s “JIO” trade mark on lottery and gaming websites, directing domain name registrars to suspend infringing websites and an intermediary to take down infringing content. The Court further directed the…...

9+ hour, 55+ min ago   (75+ words) ANTARA News Indonesia proposes ASEAN journalistic copyright consultation forum Minister of Law Supratman Andi Agtas (fourth from right) with delegates at the ASEAN Forum on the Protection of Journalistic Works in the Copyright Regime in the Digital Era in Badung…...

1+ day, 23+ min ago   (429+ words) WASHINGTON, DC (CelebrityAccess) – The US Copyright Office has launched a public inquiry into music streaming fraud, just one day after a North Carolina man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for using AI-generated songs and automated bots to collect…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (149+ words) “Innovators must be aware of intellectual property rights to protect their ideas and technology,” said Atul Khade, Assistant Controller at the Indian Patent Office. He said that patent filings have risen sharply in recent times, but patents with commercial and…...

13+ hour, 39+ min ago   (376+ words) The Bombay High Court has allowed Colgate-Palmolive to introduce six renewed trademark registration certificates as evidence in its 1996 infringement suit against Anchor Health and Beauty Care Private Limited, holding that the documents cannot be considered irrelevant to the dispute. Justice…...