Demystifying Advertising Standards Council of India - Safeguarding Ethical Advertising in India
The rampant rise of social media influencers has drastically changed the advertising landscape in India. The paradigm of content...
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The Monochrome Effect: Decoding the Legality of Single Colour Trademarks
In the complex world of brand development and association, single colours have emerged as a powerful and sophisticated branding strategy....
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Mar 154 min read
What’s in a Geographical Name?: Understanding use of Geographical Names as Trade Marks
The names of cities, states and countries are often used by businesses to refer to their goods and services. Some well-known examples are...
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Feb 153 min read
Preserving Brand Integrity: The Banes of Naked Licensing
The goodwill and reputation of a brand is built, in large measure, on the quality of the goods and services in relation to which it is...
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Oct 4, 20237 min read
Summary and analysis- The Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023
Recently, the Indian Patent Office published "The Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023”. In recent years, with the increase in the number...
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Aug 23, 20234 min read
Meat Substitutes: Protecting Innovations and Strategies for Building a Patent Portfolio
In the first part [P1] of this two-part article, we compiled the global innovation landscape and market trends in the meat substitute...
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Aug 8, 20232 min read
The Bombay High Court Steps In!
Recently, the Bombay High Court has pronounced a series of decisions in matters in which parties appealed decisions of the Trade Marks...
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Aug 3, 20233 min read
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...
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Jun 21, 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,...
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Jun 3, 20235 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...
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May 18, 20234 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...
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May 14, 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...
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Apr 17, 20235 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...
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Mar 16, 20234 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...
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Dec 14, 20223 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...
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Sep 9, 20224 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...
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Aug 1, 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...
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Jul 1, 20223 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...
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Jun 20, 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...
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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...
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