Founded in the year 2014 by Sujata Chaudhri and located in the National Capital Region (NCR) in India, our firm provides advisory, litigation and enforcement, and prosecution services in all areas of intellectual property law.
Recently, on November 18, 2025, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (“DPIIT”), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, released draft guidelines for the use of the Geographical Indication (“GI”) Logo for comments and suggestions from the general public and concerned stakeholders. This comes in light of the Government of India’s process of developing comprehensive guidelines for the use of the GI logo. GI refers to an indication which identifies goods as agr
In C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 10/2025, the Delhi High Court set aside the refusal of Indian Patent Application No. 202117029591 filed by Nippon Steel Corporation for an invention titled “High-Strength Steel Sheet and Manufacturing Method of High-Strength Steel Sheet”. The Controller had rejected the application on the ground that “proof of right” was not established for one deceased inventor, invoking Sections 6(1)(b), 6(1)(c) and 7(2) of the Patents Act to question Nippon Steel’s en
The ever flourishing cross-border trade and the expansion of global markets has led to shedding of more importance on parallel importation and effective implementation of ranging price gaps. If we were to understand the concept of exhaustion of a trade mark in simple terms, we would break it down as one of the limitations under the intellectual property law. Once any good which are protected by an IP right are smarketed- by an enterprise or by anyone else with the prior conse
