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Introduction A car where the back seat heater will only turn on if you pay the monthly fee. A smart speaker that quietly loses a feature it originally had only because the company after a year decided to take fees for that feature, the biggest example is Spotify. No new sales But the manufacturer introduced a firmware update and now the owner cannot do anything with the thing that they have purchased. This is the new way of owning hardware. Devices not sold and left alone. It

Introduction The objective of this article is to outline an economic analysis of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) law and its association with competition policy. The relevant economic literature on this is immense and complicated. Here we will aim for straightforwardness to derive the main principles and proposing clear rules that might help to shape the implementation and structure of both Intellectual property and Antitrust laws. While our analysis does not include every

Introduction From Cadbury’s regal purple to Triffany’s robin-egg blue, colours can be used as a powerful brand identifier that go beyond aesthetics. The identification of colour brand in India is however legally complex. In India, Colour trademarks are the subset of non-conventional trademarks which also include sounds, odour, and structure. This blog explores India’s colour mark laws, emphasising on the concept of uniqueness, usefulness and competitiveness issues while incor