Corporate Law : The article explains that trademark registration protects the composite mark as a whole, while Section 17 restricts exclusive righ...
Corporate Law : The article explains the trademark filing and prosecution process in Bhutan, including examination, publication, opposition and re...
Corporate Law : Sensory judgement: A legislative comment on the expansion of the ‘mark’ and the scientific resolution of graphical representat...
Corporate Law : The court ruled that using a registered trademark as a keyword to divert online traffic can amount to trademark infringement. The ...
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 : 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 : The Delhi High Court held that Google could not use the registered trademark HINDWARE as advertising keywords and granted a perman...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court ruled that the use of registered trademarks as keywords in Google Ads amounts to use under the Trade Marks Ac...
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...
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...
Hindustan Unilever Limited Vs Girnar Exports (IPAB)- The four appeals are against the orders passed by the Deputy Registrar, Trade Marks at Chennai in three proceedings and the Deputy Registrar at Kolkata in one. The mark is Red Label. Application No. 397359 is for registration of the mark which is a label consisting of the word Red Label with a colour scheme of red and yellow in Roman and Arabic character in respect of tea (Class 30) which is the subject matter of TA/47/2003/TM/CH.
In order to provide enhanced services to its stakeholders, MCA in a joined up service with the Trademark department has provided a facility for searching the trademark database before applying for Name availability. You can now use the link ‘Public Search of Trade Marks’ available on the MCA21 portal before applying for a company name to verify that the name is not subjected to any trademark or pending for trademark registration.
Pending Trademark Disputes The number of trademark dispute applications/files, which are under opposition and pending in the various offices of the Trade Marks Registry, is as under:-
Providing relief to a Chinese company, Double Coin Holdings Ltd, the Delhi High Court has restrained Trans Tyres (India) Pvt Ltd from selling tyres and tubes bearing the brand name ‘Double Coin’. Trans Tyres is a selling agent of the Chinese company and has got registration of trademark ”Double Coin” for tyres and tubes in India in its name.
The government today said it will issue a public notice by next week to reconstruct 44,000 missing files from the trademarks office. The files will be reconstructed as per an undertaking given by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks to the Delhi High Court which had issued directives in this regard.
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited. vs Sami Khatib Of Mumbai (Medley Pharmaceuticals Limited). A division bench of the Bombay high court last week dismissed the appeal of Cadila Pharmaceuticals against the judgement of a single judge bench restraining Cadila from manufacturing, marketing or exporting medicinal preparations under the trade mark “Hb TONE”/ “HB TONE” or any other mark deceptively similar to the trademarks of another company, Medley Pharmaceuticals, namely “ARBITONE”, “RB TONE” or “HB RON”. The complaint was that Cadila was “passing off” the products with similar names.
Intellectual Property Office has also issued the public notice that “The fee for filing of application to register a trade mark for a specification of goods or services included in one class has been increased from Rs.2,500/- to Rs.3,500 /-. The abov
Patent and trademark seekers will no longer have to wait for weeks to get the go-ahead for their applications from the government’s patent registrar . The commerce and industry ministry has thrown open the entire trademark and patent database for fre
The AO further made a disallowance of a deduction of Rs.6,94,02,867/- u/s 40(a). The assessee claimed that certain disallowances were made for expenditure in the earlier years in the case of KEC Infrastructure Ltd. and as the payments of these disallowed expenditure were made during the year, the assessee claims that the same should be allowed in its han
A division bench of the Delhi high court last week dismissed the appeal of Marico Ltd against its rival in cooking oil market, Agro Tech Foods Ltd, over the use of expressions exclusively claimed by the former. Earlier, a single judge bench had held