COPY RIGHT, TRADE MARK & DESIGN

Unit I

Definition ,Characteristics of Copy Right Protection · Determination of ownership and Rights of owner of copy Right. · Registration, Publication and Term of Copy Right · Assignment and Licence of Copy Right. · Infringement of Copy Right and Legal Remedies · Judgments:- · (1) R.G. Anand vs Delux films (1978) UDCC 118. · (2) Gramophone Co. of India Ltd./ Super Cassette Industries 1995 · PTR 64

• Nature and scope of Copyright
• Term of Copyright
• Authorship and Ownership of Copyright
• Assignment and Licensing 4.9Fair Use Provisions
• Infringement of Copyrights and Remedies

Unit II

Concept, Definition , characteristics , functions, term of a · Trademark and Effects of Registration. · Rights of Trademark Holder. · Assignment and Transmission of TM. · Infringement & passing off action in Trade marks and Legal Remedies. · Judgments:- · (1) S.B.L. Limited/Himalaya Drug Co., AIR1998 Del.126. · (2) Time Warner Entertainment Company vs. N.K.Das 1993 PTC 453.

• Introduction to Trademarks and their Evolution in India
• Rights of Proprietor of Trademark
• Assignment and Licensing of Trademark
• Infringement and Passing Off
• Remedies and Defences for Infringement and Passing Off

Unit III

Designs:- · -Meaning, Kinds of Designs. · - Registration of Designs. · - Rights of Design Holder · - Infringement and Legal Remedies · Judgments:- · (1) National Trading Company/Monica Chawla AIR 1994 De 309

Unit IV

International Protection of Copy Right, Trade Mark and Designs- · WTO · TRJPS. · Madrid Agreement on Trade Marks 1989. · Paris Convention · Berne Convention · Universal Copy Right Convention 1952 · Hague Agreement 1925.

• Basic International Conventions and International Institutions relating to Intellectual Property
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 1883
• The Berne Convention, 1886
• Trips Agreement, 1994