1. IPR DISPUTES IN RELATION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2. RELEVANT IPRs (i) Trade mark (ii) Copyright (iii) Undisclosed Information/ Trade Secret (iv) Patents (v) Layout Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuit

3. IPR DISPUTES - INTERNET (i) Domain Name Dispute (ii) Cyber Squatting & Typo squatting (iii) Protest Website (iv) Copyright Violations on the websites (v) Linking

4. (vi) Imaging Linking (vii) Framing (viii) Metatag & Keyword (ix) Selling of Trademark (x) Peer to Peer file sharing

5. INTERNET Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 1970's Transmission Control Protocol TCP Internet Protocol IP Internet Protocol Address (IP Address)

6. WORLD WIDE WEB (www) Tim Berners Lee 1980's Hypertext Markup Language HTML Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP First Web Page – 6.8.91 Free - 30.4.93

7. UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) IP Address IP adress of Yahoo 66.94.230.35 IP Address Allahabad HC: 221.134.71.211 Domain Name yahoo.com allahabadhighcourt.in URL http://www.yahoo.com http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/service/

8. SATYAM INFOWAY (SIFY) Vs SIFFYNET SOLUTIONS Domain names Characteristics of a trademark Protected – under law relating to passing off Similar – can be ground of complaint Defenses - similar – as in passing off action

9. SOFTWARE DISPUTES LEGAL PROTECTION Source Code Copy right Trade Secret #include „proxy.h“ #include „signals.h“ #include „sslconn.h“ #include „sound.h“ struct PidginCore { char *ui; void *reserved;}; static PidginCoreUiOps *_ops = NULL; static PidginCore *_core = NULL;

10. COMPUTER EDGE Ptv Ltd Vs APPLE COMPUTERS Inc (1986) I have not found anything … that has persuaded me that [the object code] a sequence of electrical impulses in a silicon chip, not capable itself of communicating anything directly to a human recipient, and designed only to operate a computer, is itself a literary work or is the translation of a literary work within the Copyright Act.

11. LAW - US Parkar Vs Flook Gottschalk Vs Benson Mayo Vs Prometheus Diamond Vs Diehr (part of Industrial process) State Street Bank Vs Signature Financial Group (part of business method))

12. PATENTS GRANTED Single click to order goods in an on-line transaction An on-line system of accounting On-line rewards incentive system On-line frequent buyer programme Programmes letting customers set their own prices for hotel booking

13. PATENTS INVALIDATED Bilski Vs Kappos Alice Corporation Vs CLS Bank

14. EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION 1973 Article -52(2) What shall not be regarded as inventions Article 52(2)(c) Schemes Rules and Methods for Performing Mental Acts Playing Games or Doing Business, and Programmes for Computers

15. WHAT ARE NOT INVENTIONS Section 3 (k) a mathematical or business method or a computer programme per se or algorithms 2004 Ordinance (k) a computer programme per se other than its technical application to industry or a combination with hardware (ka) a mathematical method or a business method or algorithms