Archana Priyadharshini
Designating India in your IR trademark application with the ® Registered symbol
Time upon time, the significance of the ® (registered symbol) and the ™ symbol have been reiterated in our posts in our blog. The basic picture being ™ can be used with a trademark by entities to showcase and declare that the said mark is being used by the Applicant as a trademark in respect of…
Creating a Work? Know if you are indeed the Owner of the Copyright
Owner of the Copyright Let me cut to the chase than going about as to what is Copyright (of course, more on the fundamentals of Copyright and the Indian Copyright Act can be found here). Copyright is quite a complicated IP right and the determination of who the author and owner of work become…
Exploring the Not-Very-Common Provisions of Section 9
Trademark is an identity. Let us leave for a second what the Trademarks Act defines a trademark; in layman’s terms, a trademark is an identity to your business, the products or services that you sell and businesses wrack their heads to come up with a brand name/trademark that is unique and/or that…
Why Startups need to protect their Intellectual Property before disclosing it
Intellectual Property – Creations of your Mind ‘A hundred and one wonders our mind holds, And out of it rarely a creation unfolds!’ Isn’t that true? Imagine you have created something ingenious, what we formally call “Intellectual Property” or simply IP, like a truly mind-blowing…
The Mind-Boggling Rubik’s Cube
I’m sure most of us would have certainly asked our parents for the Magic Cube to play with, as a child. Whether we solve the puzzle or not, as kids, we would have been enchanted by the colorful cube and twisted it (and probably broken it to pieces) in all possible ways to get it right. The Rubik’s…
Copyright And Copyleft
COPYRIGHT Most of us have a fair idea of what copyright is. Copyright is a bundle of rights in an original work. Work here includes artistic work, sound recordings, literary or dramatic work, cinematography, photographs and software. A copyright holder is vested with a bundle of rights including…
How to get a well-known trademark status for your mark in India
What is a well-known trademark? The Trademarks Act, 1999 has defined a well-known trademark under Section 2(zg) of the Act as ‘mark which has become so to the substantial segment of the public which uses such goods or receives such services that the use of such mark in relation to other goods or…
Memoirs of the Indian Trademark Office
I still remember the first time I looked into the Indian Trademark Office website while interning, memorizing the domain name www.ipindia.nic.in, little knowing I would plunge into it and never forget it. The journey of the Indian Trademark Office has been a long and progressive one. The…
Sole Proprietorship or incorporate my LLP/Pvt Ltd company in India
Starting your own business requires passion, zeal and aptitude for that business. But once you have decided to start on your own, there are a hundred and one questions zooming through your mind. This article aims at answering, at the least some of your questions. What is my organization going to…
A Dig into Cakes – the IP Perspective
Cakes. What instantly comes to our minds is the creamy, delicious taste on our palettes. But yet here I am, connecting it with the most unlikely subject, Intellectual Property Rights. I’m sure ‘cakes’ always make us think of ‘chocolate,’ ‘red velvet’ (I do know a bit about them) etc and hardly…