Prohibited Trademarks: What words and terms could lead to denial of your Trademark registration?
Thinking of a new innovative business model? A new start-up or product name that could set you apart from the crowd of the ever-growing additions […]
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Turning Deaf: Musings on the phonetic similarity of trademarks in Indian Courts
Introduction Imagine a triangle consisting of a producer, a good or service and a consumer. At the centroid, lies a trademark which tells the consumer […]
Leeching as a mode of Trademark Infringement
The Rationale behind Trademark Protection Just as how humans are identified by their names, the ideas materialized by humans deserve to be identified by a […]
Geographical Indication (GI) Tags of Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh is also known as the Orchid State of India or the Paradise of the Botanists and geographically it is the largest amongst the […]
Basics of SEP in light of the recent German court’s decision
I have earlier researched, discussed and talked about Standard Essential Patents (SEP), however, I have never penned down my thoughts on this topic until now! […]
Geographical Indication (GI) Tags of Karnataka
Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India, bordered by the Arabian Sea coastline to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to […]
Using IPR as collateral: Business Continuity in Post-Covid Landscape
I. Introduction:The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown open dilemmatic questions to various business houses quizzing them about their survival, expansion plans and business continuity. The pandemic […]
Failure to obtain foreign filing permit in India – illegality or irregularity?
A very interesting question was recently put across to a wide audience group. The questioner sought inputs on whether an applicant based out of India […]
Public disclosure of the invention is safer than a secret use: Loopholes in the patent law
Secret use of an invention before filing a patent application could amount to public use and such public use of the invention would be beyond […]
Stripping Away Abstraction to find Adaptation
From Lord of the Rings to Life of Pi to Shawshank Redemption, we have all time and again enjoyed these movies that were wonderful adaptations […]
The pecuniary jurisdiction of courts in IPR disputes
Mr. Nosy Parker is an artist who creates interesting posters at his leisure. Recently, through one of the groups on facebook, he saw an attractive […]
Trademark Incapacity Doctrine or Primary significance test: Which favors Generic mark to be recognized as trademark?
The principal purpose of a trademark is to act as a ‘source signifier’ and not ‘product signifier’. A mark qualifies as a trademark when a […]
Copyright exception related to marriage procession: A clarification from the Copyright Office
A piecemeal Public notice from the Copyright Office, Government of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry [DIPP] notified on August 27, 2019, though a little […]
Nothing is new under the moon: second-medical-use and COVID-19 treatment
Under patent law, new uses of known substances can be protected by second medical use patents. It is known that the research in the field […]
Statutory right Vs Constitutional right: A discussion about the work of architecture
Do you know a building, structure, tower, bridge, etc. are protectable under the Intellectual property Law? Look at these famous buildings, the “Campo Volantin Bridge” […]
The assorted flavours of Kovilpatti Kadalai Mittai from Tamil Nadu awarded with a GI Tag
Tamil Nadu’s renowned peanut sweet known as Kovilpatti Kadalai Mittai was awarded with a GI tag certificate on 20th April 2020 with the seal of […]
What the IPR Game in the Gaming Industry Looks Like
Intellectual property, in its simplest sense, refers to the creations of the mind, i.e., inventions, literary and artistic works as well as symbols, names and […]
Manipur, a State in India, gets the newest GI Tag on Agricultural Product ‘Chak-Hao Black Rice’
Manipur, a State in India, is bagged with a newest GI Tag on agricultural product ‘Black Rice’, popularly known as ‘Chakhao’ after receiving its GI […]
Are we ready for next-generation cars?
Technology leap has driven us to an era where we are witnessing things which were used to be just a hyped phrase. Especially if we […]
Can a machine with Artificial Intelligence be recognised as an inventor in the patents law? The approach of three different jurisdictions and relevant policy considerations
USPTO and EPO reject the notion of AI as an inventor, while the established opinion in the copyright world is that an AI machine cannot […]