Alerts
23Feb
CG notice regarding Increase in the Trade Mark Application fees
In an unexpected development, the Trademarks Office has decided to increase the official fees for new application/s and fee for expedited examination request with effect from August 1, 2014. The Controller General of Patents, Designs...
22Feb
IP Appellate Board embraces Digital India Initiative
In an interesting case involving transfer of Intellectual property between two entities located outside India where the trademarks were owned by an Australian company but used in India, the Delhi High court in an Appeal...
22Feb
IPAB lays down roadmap to clear backlog
The new chairman of IPAB Mr. Justice Manmohan Singh (retired) has energized its functioning soon after he assumed charge on 2nd January, 2018. Between 18th to 25th January, 2018 over 200 cases were listed in...
21Dec
Software patentability in India- a case of one step backward, one step forward
The Indian Patent Office predicament over software patents continues. The patent office has issued another version of modified guidelines for the patentability of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) on June 30th 2017. This is the third...
Articles
25Jul
High Court sets aside injunction for suppression of material facts
This is the second round of litigation between Cognizant Technologies Solutions (Cognizant) and Atyati Technologies Private Limited (Atyati). The bone of contention is the use of the logo as depicted below: Atyati brought this suit...
15Jul
Delhi High Court holds VIGOURA is deceptively similar to VIAGRA
This note discusses the judgement passed by the Delhi High Court in a suit filed by the Plaintiff, Pfizer Products Inc (Pfizer). Pfizer filed the suit to safeguard its trademark rights in “VIAGRA,” a well-known...
5Jul
IPR CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION – INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS
In the age of globalization, the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has taken centre stage. Till now, the role of Customs was primarily collecting Customs duties and other indirect taxes. However, with the advent...
25Jun
‘Southern Infosys’ loses its claim to use Infosys as corporate name
Infosys Limited (Infosys) brought an action against Southern Infosys Limited (SIL) seeking to restrain SIL from using Infosys’s registered trademark “INFOSYS” as part of its trade name. Infosys alleged that SIL’s use of its registered...
Newsletters
15Jul
(INTA)’s Unreal Campaign to Scottish High International School, Gurgaon
RNA, Technology and IP Attorneys is pleased to share that we brought International Trademark Association (INTA)’s Unreal Campaign to Scottish High International School, Gurgaon, yesterday. It was an engaging session where students delved into the...
26Jun
The basics of intellectual property rights and computer-related inventions
Mr. Chandan Kumar attended the Faculty Development Program (FDP) organized by Mangalmay Institute of Management & Technology on June 25th as a speaker. The topic covered was “the basics of intellectual property rights and...
13Jun
Patent filing and prosecution in Agricultural technologies and Plant Biotechnologies
We are pleased to announce that Ms. Suvarna Pandey, Associate Partner at RNA, Technology and IP Attorneys, recently visited AAU Incubation Center (Agri & Food Business Incubator), India’s leading Agri-Food Tech Incubation Center supported...
11May
Trademark and Copyright Laws Course at IP Press
As part of our IP Awareness Campaign, our Senior Associate Girish Bhatia was recently invited by the IP Press to lead a session on the subject of “Remedies, Renewal, and Rectification of Trade Marks.” The...