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Trade Marks Rules, 2017- Dissected, Scrutinized and Simplified
The month of March seems to be jinxed with respect to Trademarks in India! March 2016, we witnessed the infamous “Mass abandonment” of over one lakh trademark applications and a year later in March 2017, the Indian Trade Marks Office again struck back with the enforcement of the much anticipated…
Escalation in the Trademark Fee – Trade Mark Rules, 2017 comes into force
The much-awaited Trade Marks Rules 2017 has finally come into force as of March 6, 2017. Although the new rules aim at simplifying the trademark prosecution as a whole by reducing the number of forms from 75 to 8, incorporating provisions for expedited registration of trademarks and so on, the…
Trademark Rules 2017- The Top Six Changes
The Trade Mark Rule 2017 came into force on March 6, 2017 with several changes to the existing trademark practice. While there are numerous amendments, I’ve listed the top six changes Classification of Applicants The Trademark Rules 2017 has specified the Applicants for the purpose of the Trademark…
The Trademark Rules 2017 – The online filing system version 3.0
The Trademark Rules 2017 were finally notified on March 6, 2017 after months of speculation and several mistimed email blasts notifying people of its imminent adoption. The crux of the draft rules hasn’t changed, since its publication in November 2015 with fewer forms, a more digital approach,…
Copyright in the Digital World
In this digitized world that we live in, our daily lives are incomplete without multimedia bombarding us be it through phones, tablets or computers. But, have you ever thought about who’s work are we using, who owns the different streams of multimedia, that we interact with? The answer is No. In…
Celebrity Rights – Public, Private or Intellectual Property
Our celebrities’ lives have become so public lately that most of us have almost forgotten that they have a personal life too, which like all of us they would want to keep secret and private, [read away from the paparazzi]. For Instance, what I do in my free time I wouldn’t want my mom to find out,…
What You Need to Think About When Crafting a Non-Disclosure Agreement
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) protect sensitive information in business deals. Depending on the structure and specific language of the deal, NDAs have long-term effects on the recipient of the agreement. Make sure you know what is in any non-disclosure agreement you are a part of and be certain…
Copyright Protection for Photographers in India
Photographs are protected under copyright law as artistic work under Section 2 (c) of Copyright Act 1957 in India. Photographs are protected under the law of Copyright as it has been included as an artistic work. Although, the quality is immaterial to qualify the work as an artistic work [so a bad…
Bollywood and Copyright- “Infringement or Inspiration”
Bollywood for a long time now, has been taking inspiration from Hollywood movies, not only Hollywood but South Indian movies too but at times, they have gone too far with taking “Inspiration”, and actually started “Infringing” others rights; or was that always the case? Before 2010, the answer to…
“TATA” A Well-Known Trademark
In a recent judgment, the Delhi High Court pronounced that the mark TATA has acquired the status of a "well-known" mark on account of its usage for a long period of time. The concept of well-known trademarks and infringement of well-known marks have been dealt with on numerous occasions by the…