Company Law : Even after incorporation, a company name can be changed if it conflicts with a registered trademark. Section 16 empowers the Gover...
Corporate Law : Learn the complete trademark filing process, from class selection to handling objections. Key takeaway: Proper preparation ensures...
Income Tax : Payments for sports sponsorship that grant global trademark usage can be split as royalty. Courts upheld withholding where tradema...
Company Law : Trademark law in India has undergone remarkable transformation over the past decade. Once considered a limited tool for brand iden...
Corporate Law : Indian law grants cross-class protection to famous trademarks like TATA and WIPRO, preventing misuse of well-known names across un...
Corporate Law : Beware of fraudsters soliciting money for IP applications. Report any suspicious claims to the office. Applications processed lega...
CA, CS, CMA : Company Secretaries in Practice are allowed to be registered as Trade Marks Agent under Rule 144 of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, r...
Corporate Law : A writ petition is filed before Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur while challenging the Circular dated 28.08.2020 being issu...
Corporate Law : The Union Cabinet in its meeting dated 15.09.2020 gave the approval for signing the MoU with Denmark in the field of IP Cooperatio...
Corporate Law : A trademark application is processed in accordance with The Trade Marks Act, 1999 and The Trade Marks Rules, 2017. 1. Application ...
Income Tax : High Court held that consideration received on transfer of self-generated trademarks before 1 April 2002 was not taxable as capita...
Corporate Law : The issue was whether the NCLT could declare ownership of a trademark during CIRP. The Supreme Court held that title disputes not ...
Corporate Law : Delhi High Court grants injunction against Franchise India Brands Ltd. and Ichakdana Food Services LLP for unauthorized use of 'Ra...
Company Law : Delhi High Court quashes Regional Director's order in Panchhi Petha name dispute, rules authority can't decide trademark ownership...
Corporate Law : Madras High Court dismisses KCP Infra's plea, upholds MCA order to change company name due to similarity with KCP Ltd.'s trademark...
Corporate Law : Government proposes draft amendments to Trade Marks Rules 2017 introducing a Code of Conduct, disciplinary procedures, and complai...
Corporate Law : Calcutta High Court put on hold a public notice restricting online legal advertising for trademark registration, keeping the issue...
Corporate Law : Trade Marks (Holding Inquiry and Appeal) Rules 2024 now in effect. New procedures for complaints, inquiries, and appeals under the...
Corporate Law : Explore the proposed Trade Marks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024 by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Learn about adjudication pr...
Corporate Law : The common or generic names of the commodity contained in the package and in case of packages with more than one product, the name...
Mergers and acquisitions involve huge financial recourses so it becomes important to evaluate the viability of the deal. Therefore, buyers undertake a process known as due diligence, though it is not an insurance but it provides assurance against the bad deal. The term more commonly applies to voluntary investigation but in some cases, it is used to mean a required legal obligation.
Organization’ vision, values and reputation bring existence of the Brand. Every Organization embraces those names as a Trademark/Brand that reflects their business and create impact on their goods and services. The momentum of the Brand when nurtured by the hard work, new innovated ideas, and the culture set by the Organization, eventually creates the goodwill […]
Every person starts his business to grow and want some rights from the government that his rights shall be protected by the Government. So, every Entrepreneur put its best efforts to make their brand valuable and wants the protection of his brand. Accordingly, Government of India established an Authority named Controller General of Patents, Designs […]
Acquisition of trademark differs from how other Intellectual property, such as copyright or patents may be legally protected. A trademark cannot be taken in its whole since its nature prevents it. A trademark is something that can only exist in relation to other economic activities.
How to Renew/ Re- register Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) on Trademark e-filing portal Registration of Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) is pre-requisite for any Trademark Agent / Attorney, in order to be able to file various forms, replies, etc on online ‘filing portal of Trademark.’ In case the originally registered DSC expired, new DSC is required […]
Digital India initiative times has influenced all sectors of the economy including compliance. More than ever it has become quite easy to file for a trademark digitally. You can say bye to all the hassle of printing the application and then filling it out without doing spelling mistakes. If you did then we both know […]
A writ petition is filed before Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur while challenging the Circular dated 28.08.2020 being issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS). By virtue of the impugned circular, BIS has strictly directed the Cement Companies across the nation to not to use Registered TradeMarks which contains claims like ‘super’, ‘weather shield’ and […]
A trademark (popularly known as brand name) is a visual symbol which may be a word signature, name, device, label, numerals or combination of colors used by one undertaking on goods or services or other articles of commerce to distinguish it from other similar goods or services originating from a different undertaking. GUIDELINES FOR REGISTRATION […]
A Trade Mark granted to a person can be given to another one dealing in a different class of goods/services – High Court of Kerala The Hon’ble High Court of Kerala in Kunhi Muhammed Etayattil Vs. the Assistant Registrar of Companies & Anr (WP [C] No. 3057 of 2021 dated: 07.04.2021) held that it is […]
In India every day, thousands of Trademarks Application are filed and it cannot be said that one of such trademark do not infringe or having similarity to your trademark. Therefore, one of key step to safeguard and protect your trademark is to Oppose such Similar or identical trademark and in this way the Trademark Opposition […]
