Month: October 2013
Why should your trademark be unique and distinctive?
Our personal experience It has been quite an interesting journey for all of us since we started our career into intellectual property. Each of our lawyers encounter on a day to day basis clients from different levels and parts of society involved in different businesses. Counseling and brainstorming a client is quite a task which consumes…
Trademark Bullying – are you being bullied?
What is trademark bullying? Bullying, in general, means an act of intimidating a weaker person to do or not to do something. This term is quite familiar to most of us, especially in the context of school, colleges, workplaces, etc. Bullying seems to be an epidemic and has invaded the trademark industry as well. Normally,…
After 10 years Isohunt closes down a bit early, survived many Copyright battles!
Many of the file sharing and torrent websites have been losing their battles against Copyright owners. One such was Megaupload, which was shut down a few months ago. Isohunt.com has fought many battles and somehow pulled off for about 10.5 years. Isohunt has posted a notice on its website that it has closed a day…
In “Advocates as Patent Agents” Case- IPO says “it has been appealed”
SP Chockalingam vs. Controller of Patents March 15, 2013 was a much-awaited date for the legal fraternity when Honourable Madras High Court pronounced a verdict on a writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking for issuance of a Writ of Declaration, that the amendment introduced to Section 126 of the…
Different stages of trademark application in India
A trademark application after it is filed has to see through several stages of scrutiny before it is finally registered. So, the applicant and or the applicant’s counsel needs to diligently follow up with every stage of the application. After the implementation of online filing, a.k.a. e-filing of trademarks, objections and other notifications are published…