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.
The Delhi High Court’s ruling in Yangtze Memory Technologie Co. Ltd. v. Union of India & Anr. delivers a sharp procedural reminder for patent applicants: the right to file a divisional application ends the moment the parent patent is granted. The Court holds? Interpreting Section 16(1) of the Patents Act, 1970, the Court reaffirmed that a divisional application may be filed only “at any time before the grant of the patent.” Once the patent is granted, the window closes - co
Recently, the Delhi High Court allowed a trademark rectification petition filed by Satya Paul (“Petitioner”), the proprietor of the trademark ARUN, and directed the rectification of the trademark “AiC ARUN” registered in favour of Alka Industrial Corporation (“Respondent”) by ordering deletion of the word “ARUN” from the trademark. The Petitioner claimed to have adopted the trademark ARUN in 1962 for sewing machines and related parts. The Petitioner relied on multiple regis
Recently, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court refused to cancel the registered trademark, REKIN-SP, of Rekin Pharma Private Limited (“Respondent”) in a cancellation petition filed by Rexcin Pharmaceuticals Private Limited (“Petitioner”). The Petitioner had filed the petition under Section 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (the “Act”), seeking removal of the Respondent’s registration for the mark, REKIN-SP in Class 5, on the grounds of prior rights and deceptive similarity of the riv
