THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY QUIZ - K&S PARTNERS, 2017

Who wrote: “Copyright, especially in literary works, is thus not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public. Copyright is intended to increase and not to impede the harvest of knowledge. It is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors in order to benefit the public”?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected X's trademark application on Dec. 22 of last year, saying that “______” was too similar to the already-registered phrase "Let Your Ad Meet ______," which belonged to Des Moines-based advertising service Twittad. Fill in the blank.

On 9th August 2011, in a historic move, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by present ICJ Judge Dalveer Bhandari allowed an academic intervention to assist the Court. Who was the intervenor and which case?

Which is the largest library in the world housing the maximum number of titles?

€�When visitors come to your home, the _____ 47 inch Entertainment Center makes your family room alone look like you live in a perfect world of a million dollar baby“. This ad line led to a litigation concerning the unauthorised use of a personality's name. Fill in the Blank.

According to Sascha Sippy, “X’s animation is a violation of trademark, copyright and underlying rights. They have insinuated that ______ is anti-environment and have associated Y and all its characters in negative light. We, the owners of the characters, do not support X’s views”. Who are X & Y?

This Patent attorney gained fame from 18th November 1985 to 3rd December 1995. He is an avid outdoorsman, loves cycling, fishing, swimming and camping and clearly was a party animal in his youth. Even now, we occasionally come across him in the daily newspapers. Who?

What was the first country held in violation of the patent provisions of the TRIPS Agreement?

Facebook has been given trademark protection over the use of a word in “Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter, none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars.” Which word?

Which judge said that Indian copyright law is un-Indian because it does not protect the rights of performers?

This Milwaukee manufacturer has pulled the plug on its effort to obtain federal trademark protection for the syncopated "potato-potato-potato" sound. Who?

Name the recent song from a Salman "Bhai" movie which is alleged to have ripped off this original creation. Also name the poor composer who feels cheated.