Rocinante strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was." Rocinante Rocinante () is Don Quixote's horse in the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double: like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities. in Spanish means a work horse or low-quality horse, but can also mean an illiterate or rough man. There are similar words in French ("roussin; rosse"), Portuguese ("rocim"), Dutch ("ros"), and
Copyright protection for fictional characters In India, recourse can be had to trademark law which recognises that fictional characters enjoy goodwill, and provides relief for cases of ‘character merchandising’. Character merchandising has been defined as involving the exploitation of fictional characters by licensing these fictional characters in the case of "Star India Private" "Limited vs Leo Burnett (India) Private Ltd". A prerequisite for character merchandising is that the character to be merchandised must have gained some public recognition, independently of the original product in which it appears. In this case, the characters in the plaintiff’s were found not have acquired an independent recognition as a