Company Law : Even after incorporation, a company name can be changed if it conflicts with a registered trademark. Section 16 empowers the Gover...
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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...
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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...
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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...
In todays business world, the registration of intellectual property is extremely important to protect its ownership and the performance of the underlying business. From a Company Secretaries perspective, this article is aimed to raise awareness of the necessity of registration of a brand before it is made public.
V. Venkata Siva Kumar Vs Institute of Cost Accountants of India (Madras High Court) The petitioner seeks for a mandamus directing the first respondent to strictly comply with Sec 2(2) of Cost and Works Accountants Act 1959 as amended and desist from encroaching into the domains earmarked for the third respondent (Chartered Accountants) and further […]
This is a welcome step and was long awaited. There was need to have a more robust, efficient and user friendly framework. Hope this will encourage one and all to seek protection of their trade marks.
The year 2017 marks the rise of trademark applicants in India. With new companies emerging in the market, getting a trademark for your company has become very important.
Trademark is one of the best ways to earn brand recognition. Trademark gives a legal right to the company to use a particular logo or a symbol to identify their business or a particular product.
The process relating to generation & issuance of Patent certificates for applications made for grant of Patent has now been fully automated.Accordingly, from 3rd July 2017 the patent certificates will be generated through an automated system after the patent is granted by the Controller and shall be made available to the applicants concerned or their authorised patent agents on record.
Government is taking steps to reduce the patent application examination time to 18 months. IPR enforcement tool kit enables police to beef up govt. machinery to handle infringement issues
Patent is an exclusive right granted to a person by the Indian Patent office for an invention. Following Persons can apply for patent registration-(True and First)
Government has notified the new Trade Mark Rules, 2017 on 6th March, 2017 to streamline and simplify the processing of trade mark applications in the country. Some of the salient features of the new Trade Mark Rules, 2017 are as under:
The new Trademark Rules, 2017 came into existence from March 6, 2017, which makes the entire trademark registration process easy & hassle-free and The Trademark Rules, 2002 are hereby repealed without prejudice to anything done under such rules before the coming into force of these rules.
