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Prohibited Trademarks: What words and terms could lead to denial of your Trademark registration?

July 28, 2020 Tanya Choudhary 4

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 […]

Turning Deaf: Musings on the phonetic similarity of trademarks in Indian Courts

July 24, 2020 Shuvam Bhattacharya 4

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

July 20, 2020 Kunal Chandriani 5

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

July 19, 2020 Tanya Sharma 4

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

July 17, 2020 Krishnam Goyal 3

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

July 15, 2020 Tanya Sharma 2

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

July 14, 2020 Amartya Shrivastava 36

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?

July 10, 2020 Gaurav Mishra 2

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 […]