Our Senior Associate, Shruhita Amit discusses “Google’s Recent Policy Change for Tackling Counterfeiters” Google recently updated its Legal Trouble Shooter Form to facilitate the removal of webpages featuring counterfeit goods from its organic (non-advertisement) search results. This is in line with the approach that it has taken for some other types of take-down requests/notices such […]

The order of naming defendants in intellectual property suits is usually determined as a matter of strategy before a suit is filed. Up until now, it has been common practice to name an innocuous defendant as the first defendant in a suit for reasons such as acquiring jurisdiction of a court, evading mention in a […]

For any brand owner, the accordance of well-known status to his brand is a “milestone.” The protection afforded to a well-known trade mark goes beyond traditional standards and focuses on protecting the distinctiveness of a trademark as against free riding and defilement. In India, the factors which are to be considered while determining the well-known […]