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National IPR Policy 2016 India: Objectives, Reforms & Impact

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India’s adoption of a comprehensive National Intellectual Property Rights Policy on 12 May 2016 marked an inflection point in the country’s engagement with the knowledge economy. For the first time, the government brought all forms of intellectual property – patents, trademarks, copyrights, geographical indications, industrial designs, semiconductor integrated circuit layout designs, trade secrets and plant […]

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Blackberry Limited v. Controller of Patents and Designs

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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi | Decided: 30 April 2026 C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) No. 14 of 2022 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia Background Blackberry Limited, a corporation organised and existing under the laws of Ontario, Canada, specialising in telecommunication solutions including enterprise software and Internet of Things, filed Patent Application No. 1976/DEL/2008 on 20

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Right of Publicity in India – Celebrities, Sports Personalities and the Emerging Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

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The right of publicity is the legal right of an individual to control the commercial use of their identity their name, image, likeness, voice, signature and other recognizable attributes of their persona. It is a right that sits at the intersection of intellectual property law, personality rights and the law of torts and its significance

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Alkem Laboratories Limited V. Prevego Healthcare and Research Pvt. Ltd.

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High Court of Delhi | 17 January 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 84/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Alkem Laboratories Limited, was established in 1973 and is engaged in research and development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products in India and in international markets, with a presence in

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Divisional Patent Application in India: Section 16 Explained

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Divisional Patent Application in India Section 16, Unity of Invention and the Post- Boehringer and Syngenta Legal Landscape Among the more technically demanding areas of Indian patent prosecution, divisional applications occupy a position of outsized practical importance. The ability to divide a patent application to carve out one or more inventions embedded in a parent

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Collective Marks and Certification Marks under Indian Trademark Law

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Trademark law, in its conventional form, operates on a straightforward premise: a single proprietor owns a mark and uses it to distinguish their goods or services from those of others. The legal rights that follow from registration are personal, exclusive and commercially exploitable by that proprietor alone. Yet commerce is not always organised on this

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Raj Kumar Prasad & Anr. v. Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.

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Decided: 10 September 2014 FAO(OS) 281/2014 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog & Hon’ble Ms. Justice Mukta Gupta Background Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, Chicago and is engaged in the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products in India. The trademark ‘ANAFORTAN’ had originally been used by Khandelwal Laboratories

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

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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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