Intellectual Property Law

Anton Piller Orders and Mareva Injunctions in Indian Patent Litigation

Patent litigation is as much a battle of speed and strategy as it is one of legal argument. An infringer who receives advance notice of impending legal action has every incentive and often every means to destroy evidence, conceal infringing goods or dissipate assets before the plaintiff can secure relief. The law, recognising this vulnerability, […]

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Luxury Brand Protection and Trademark Enforcement in India

The protection of luxury brands presents trademark law with some of its most commercially significant and doctrinally demanding challenges. Luxury goods defined not merely by their price point but by the combination of heritage, craftsmanship, exclusivity, and aspirational identity that constitutes their essential commercial character depend on their trademarks in a manner qualitatively different from

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Copyright Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions – A Comprehensive Guide for Indian Transactions

Mergers and acquisitions are among the most consequential transactions in commercial life. They involve the transfer of business value assets, revenue streams, operational capabilities, market positions from one set of owners to another, and they carry with them all the risks and liabilities that attach to the business being acquired. In an economy increasingly defined

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Trademark Issues in E-Commerce PATENEVO

Trademark Issues in E-Commerce: Keyword Advertising and Marketplaces

The commercial internet has created a new kind of marketplace one that is frictionless, borderless, available at every hour and dominated by algorithms that decide what you see before you have even articulated what you are looking for. In this environment, a brand’s trademark performs more work than it ever did in a physical market.

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Film Piracy and Copyright Enforcement in India

Film Piracy and Copyright Enforcement in India

India is one of the largest film-producing nations in the world. The Indian film industry encompassing Bollywood, the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi and numerous other regional language industries produces more films annually than any other country and commands a domestic and diaspora audience of enormous size and passionate engagement. The commercial value generated

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Copyright Registration in India

Copyright Registration in India – Procedure and Evidentiary Value

Among the most persistent misconceptions in Indian intellectual property practice is the belief that copyright must be registered to exist. Authors, artists, software developers, filmmakers, and businesses that create original works routinely ask whether they need to register their copyright before they can enforce it, and whether an unregistered work attracts the full protection of

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Trademark Prosecution and Opposition in India

Trademark Prosecution and Opposition in India: From Application to Registration under the Trade Marks Act, 1999

A trademark is, in commercial terms, the face of a business. It is the element that consumers reach for when they navigate a crowded market the word, symbol, logo, shape, or combination that tells them who made the goods or provided the service they are about to buy. The legal protection of that commercial identity

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Comparative Advertising and Trademarks in India

Comparative Advertising and Trademarks in India

Comparative advertising the practice by which a trader promotes their own goods or services by making explicit or implicit reference to the goods or services of an identifiable competitor occupies a uniquely contested position at the intersection of trademark law, consumer protection and commercial free speech. It is a practice that serves genuine consumer interests

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Patent Suit - Jurisdiction, Procedure and the Commercial Courts Act

Patent Suit – Jurisdiction, Procedure and the Commercial Courts Act

Intellectual property litigation in India has undergone a transformation of considerable significance over the past decade and nowhere is this transformation more visible than in the conduct of patent suits. The enactment of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, the establishment of specialised intellectual property divisions in the High Courts, the introduction of case management procedures

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ndian Copyright Law and the Berne

Indian Copyright Law and the Berne Convention

International intellectual property law rests on a web of multilateral treaties and conventions that establish minimum standards of protection, define reciprocal obligations among member states and create the framework within which domestic copyright systems operate. At the centre of this web, for copyright, is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

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