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A dustup over classical architecture at the University of Virginia prefigured the controversy over Donald Trump’s architecture executive order.

Vanguard News Reps repeal Patents, Designs Act to effectively protect intellectual properties On By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja To adequately give protection to the intellectual properties of Nigerians, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed for second reading a bill seeking to repeal the Patents and Design Act of 1971. Titled “Patent and Designs (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, it is sponsored by Hon. Oluga Taiwo representing Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan federal constituency of Osun State....

THE Patents and Design Act 2020, which takes effect by the end of the year, has paved the...

Though his first month in office has been defined by the COVID-19 crisis and mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle, the Biden administration has also taken steps to address the interests of modernists and brutalists across the country. As part of a broader repudiation of Trump executive orders, President Joe Biden officially undid the controversial “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” executive order, which would have essentially proscribed classical architecture ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. For the first time, the High Court adopted the doctrine of “patent exhaustion” to determine the nature and extent of monopoly rights of patent owners and departed from the “implied licence” theory, which had been used in Australia for more than a 100 years. Calidad Pty Ltd, distributor of refurbished printer cartridges, won a long-standing battle with Seiko Epson Corporation in its f...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Under the new Design Act, 2020 in Japan enforced from April 1, 2020, designs of graphic images, architectures of buildings and interiors of buildings are now protected. As of October 1, 2020, already 450 applications have already been received for graphic images, while 204 and 132 applications have been received for building architectures and interior designs respectively. Earlier, while imag...

Surat: It’s unreasonable that just within two days, a new design awaiting official registration is copied, goods are made using it and they are even sold in the market, a local court wondered while allowing anticipatory bail to three people accused of copying the property mark. The additional sessions court in the city was hearing the bail plea of the trio against whom a textile unit owner lodged a complaint of cheating and counterfeiting his design. The court granted pre-arrest bail to Vedpr...