INTA’s country guides are a useful resource that many of the experienced practitioners contribute to make it happen. The 2018 guide is now live and can be accessed at Country Guides 2018 Update. It is a very useful searchable database of practical information on trademark filing, prosecution, registration, maintenance and enforcement in a number of…
Patent office take steps for being a Smart Office:The Indian Patent and Trademarks Offices have considered the need to build efficiency adapting technology to make prosecution quicker. Towards achieving this objective, both offices have now started to provide option of conducting hearing through video conferencing. In addition to this, the Controller General of Patents, Designs…
The online marketplaces set by e-commerce portals claiming to be Intermediaries were under scrutiny by the Delhi High Court. The portals currently enjoy immunity under safe harbour provisions laid out in the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. This was examined by the Single Judge of the Delhi High Court in a series of cases brought by Christian Louboutin…
The Indian Patent Office has released draft amendment rules on December 4th 2018. The majority changes are in view of expediting examination of the applications and the provision of having the bench of controller/s for deciding pre-grant opposition matters in contrast to the single controller as per the existing practice. With respect to expediting the…
When and Where: November 28-29, 2018 at Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur December 11-13, 2018 at Himachal Pradesh Police Academy, Daroh December 17-19, 2018 at North Eastern Police Academy, Shillong Our Partner, Ms. Rachna Bakhru and Associate Partner, Mr. Daleep Kumar delivered presentations at IPR workshops held for Police officials in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya….
When December 11 and 12, 2018 Where The Imperial Hotel, New Delhi Suvarna Pandey, from our Patent team attended India-UK Future Tech Festival held in New Delhi. The event was one of the initiative under the India-UK Technology Partnership, covering discussions on topics like AI/ Data, India UK Tech Hubs, Cluster Partnerships, Future Healthcare,…
In a hard hitting judgement, the Delhi High Court dismissed the case of a logistics company (Navigators Logistics Ltd) that sought to restraint its ex employees and an independent contractor working in logistics sector from using confidential data, customer database, accounts information, airway drawings, airway bills templates, plans, reports, taxes and other financial information. The…
‘Mankind’ and ‘Mercykind’ two words which in common parlance relate to humanity and forgiveness was the bone of contention in an action before the Delhi High Court between two pharmaceutical entities operating under the Mercykind and Mankind tradename. Mankind Pharma Ltd (Mankind) filed suit against Mercykind Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd (Mercykind) alleging trademark infringement and passing…
Thanks to our clients and friends for their support. We are proud recipient of “Asia IP Trademark Law Firm of the year 2018” award. The award event this year was held in New Delhi to coincide with Asian Patent Attorney conference (APAA).
When November 16, 2018 Where Office of the Commissioner of Customs, Kolkata Our Partner, Rahul Sethi have been regularly carrying out customs training workshop at various ports across West Bengal and North Eastern states with an objective to train customs officers in identification of counterfeit goods of rights holder. After custom trainings workshops at…
