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Meat Substitutes: Market Trends and Patent Insights
With the global population surpassing 8 billion, raising health and environmental consciousness, and the need to meet the United Nations...
Aug 3, 20233 min read


Who owns the Copyright in the Screenplay of Film? – An analysis of the Nayak Saga
Nayak, an award-winning Bengali language film released in the year 1996, is regarded as one of the finest works of Bharat Ratna winner,...
Jun 21, 20233 min read


Laudatory Trademarks: Descriptive or Suggestive in Nature?
The question about the distinctiveness of laudatory trade marks is a recurring one in Indian trade mark jurisprudence. It has been...
Jun 3, 20235 min read


Prosecution History Estoppel and Trade Mark Infringement: Recent Developments
Recently, the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel, which finds its roots in patent infringement proceedings, has been seeing...
May 18, 20234 min read


IP Protection in the Cosmetics Industry
Any talk about cosmetics is incomplete without a discussion about their side effects on the human body. The concern about safety is...
May 14, 20234 min read


Trade secrets: A Comparative Perspective of Their Protection and Enforcement
Trade secrets are information about a trade or business that is known only to a small number of people and has an economic value. They...
Apr 17, 20235 min read


Copyright ownership of AI generated content in India
After the launch of Chat GPT[1], an Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) chatbot developed by OpenAI, that generates responses based on the...
Mar 16, 20234 min read


Limitation Period for PCT-National Phase Applications
On September 23, 2022, when Koch Engineered Solutions LLC (“Koch”), through our firm, attempted to file four (4) National Phase...
Dec 14, 20223 min read


Trade Marks and the Metaverse: Recent Trends in India
In the post covid era, the ‘Metaverse’ has become one of the most hotly discussed technological advancements globally. More and more...
Sep 9, 20224 min read


A Common Ground at last: An Analysis of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference Declaration
Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, talks had been ongoing among Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to formulate a...
Aug 1, 20224 min read


Movie Titles — Protected Under Indian Law?
With the advent of the digital era and consequent ease of accessibility, the entertainment industry has increasingly become a larger part...
Jul 1, 20223 min read


Guidelines for Prevention of Misleading Advertisements and their Endorsements Released!
The Central Consumer Protection Authority, the body established under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 to regulate matters relating to...
Jun 20, 20223 min read


Proposed IT Amendment Rules 2022 — Putting the Interests of Digital Indians First!
The past year was quite tumultuous for the social media giants and the Indian government with the coming into effect of the Information...
Jun 20, 20223 min read


IP Violations on Social Media Platforms and the Role of Intermediaries
The power of social media as a virtual platform for disseminating content created by an individual or entity is limitless. Social media...
Jun 8, 20223 min read


Defense of Honest and Concurrent Use Unavailable for Trademark Infringement?
In a recent decision, the Delhi High Court ruled on the scope of honest and concurrent use under the Indian trademark law. In a recent...
Jun 7, 20222 min read


LAST MINUTE INJUNCTIVE RUSH
Movie business or Showbiz, as it is colloquially called, has often been the aspiration of the middle-class population. The larger than...
Apr 29, 20224 min read


THE CONUNDRUM OF COPYRIGHT SOCIETIES CONTINUES…
The Delhi High Court, in two writ petitions[1] filed by Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), a registered company dealing with sound...
Apr 15, 20223 min read


SOTEFIN SA v. INDRAPRASTHA CANCER SOCIETY AND RESEARCH CENTER & ORS.: PITH AND MARROW OF PATENT
A recent decision[1] by the Delhi High Court has provided clarity on various issues of patent law that had not been examined by Indian...
Apr 1, 20223 min read


Analyzing the concept of IPRs in creations of AI – Part 4: Possible solutions, or are they?
This is the final part of four-part analysis of the concept of IPRs in creations of AI. The first three parts of this series discussed...
Mar 15, 20226 min read


Analyzing the concept of IPRs in creations of AI – Part 3: Some major questions
This post is the penultimate part of the four-part series on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its affair with Intellectual Property...
Mar 1, 20225 min read
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