India has joined three WIPO administered classification treaties designed to ease the search for trademarks and industrial designs. These...

Recently the Bombay Stock Exchange and well-known comedian, Kunal Kamra, engaged in a battle on Twitter in connection with Mr. Kamra’s...

Recognizing that the rules governing the Copyright Act, 1957 (“Act”) need modernizing in this digital era, on May 30, 2019, the...

The order of naming defendants in intellectual property suits is usually determined as a matter of strategy before a suit is filed. Up...

While it is of paramount importance for trade mark owners to enforce their trademark rights, ensuring that these owners do not cross-over...

Recently the Delhi High Court, in UTV Software Communication Ltd. And Ors vs. 1337X.TO And Ors, (Order dt. 10.4.2019 CS(COMM) 724/2017),...

Registration of deceptively similar marks for different goods in different classes is almost never an issue! However, what about...

Like many other countries, an Indian trademark registration remains valid and subsisting for a period of ten (10) years from the...

Last month it was widely reported that American fashion model, Gigi Hadid, was sued by a photo agency for sharing a copyrighted...

The inherent nature of intellectual property is such that the overlap between the bundle of rights available to an owner in a single...

The rules governing trade marks in India underwent a sea of change in March 2017 with the advent of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017 (“New...

In 2013, India’s Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, (2013) 12 SCC 73 caused many online marketplaces in the country to...

It is now possible for trademark and design infringement to be alleged in a single lawsuit. A five-judge bench of the Delhi High Court...

For any brand owner, the accordance of well-known status to his brand is a “milestone.” The protection afforded to a well-known trade...

The Trump campaign’s use of Rihanna’s ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ at a political rally was, ironically, met with cease and desist demands....

With the rapid growth in the counterfeiting industry, law has to step in to prevent it. Indian law has approaches to check the...

The Geographical Indications Registry, Chennai, on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018, issued a Certificate of Registration for “Alphonso”, in...

Typically, a trademark is conceived to be a static, two-dimensional term or a design, which is used to uniquely identify certain goods or...

On June 25, 2018, in a post titled “The Impact of Neuroscience on How Courts in India Typically Address Trademark Disputes”, Ryan Wilson,...

This post discusses the Delhi High Court’s recent orders in matters involving the Christian Louboutin red shoe sole (shown below), and...