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The Lodha brothers dispute: where identity meets IPR

Abstract – This article explores the legal and commercial implications of using surnames as trademarks in India, using the high-profile dispute between real estate entrepreneurs Abhishek and Abhinandan Lodha as a focal point. It examines the core issue of whether...

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Qualcomm v Arm: An Act of Weaponization of IP?

The Origin: Qualcomm’s Nuvia Acquisition The controversy originated from Qualcomm’s purchase of Nuvia for $1.4 billion in 2021. The company Nuvia used to develop its high-performance custom CPU cores through the Arm instruction set architecture which its ex-Apple engineers founded....

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The Time of Assent: Constitutional Boundaries and the Governor’s Accountability

The recent case before the Supreme Court in the State of Tamil Nadu vs the governor of Tamil Nadu & Anr. has taken center stage as an emblem of constitutional defiance and a reassertion of Federal norms. The issue at...

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Stealing Styles or Creating Futures? The IP Crisis of AI Art

With OpenAI’s GPT-4o, a singular-line prompt is now all that it takes to conjure up an evocative, dreamlike replica of the work synonymous with Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. Over the past few weeks, the internet has been flooded with whimsical, Ghibli-style...

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