Author: sevenelementz
Details released about hacking attack on Chase Bank
Hacking attacks, a species of cybercrime, has been on the constant rise in the recent years. Not too long ago, Microsoft’s online store, the Heartbleed bug, numerous Gmail Accounts(?), Yahoo, etc became victims of hacking attack. Even some gaming companies were not spared. More recently this summer the J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., popularly known…
Trademark fees revised, increases by a few hundreds!
Trademark Fee and Fee for Expedited Examination go up! We blogged a while ago regarding the proposed increase in fee for trademark application (http://sevenelementz.net/legal/tm-registry-to-hike-costs-for-trademark-registration/). Coming as a surprise notification, the Trade Mark Registry posted an update on its website on August 7, 2014 notifying the fee increase of Rs. 500 in trademark application fee, i.e.,…
Football World Cup and Trademarks: How companies promote their brand?
It is not an exaggeration to say that people around the world have all of a sudden become hardcore football fans, at least took a small hiatus from their favorite games, over the past few weeks. Apart from the game in and of itself, other interesting incidents have made it more entertaining and speculating. One…
Pepsico gets relief in AQUAFINA trademark case
We live in an era when water is slowly becoming a commodity. Those days are not too far when water will no longer be freely and easily accessible or available. There are numerous brands under which bottled water is being sold in the marketplace, and for the most part, most of them adapt similar colour combination and…
Check our application status at ease now, thanks to Indian Trademark Office!
Over the past months we have been writing periodically about the digitization process happening at the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) (here and here), more specifically about trademarks. Now, the Indian trademark registry has made available yet another online dashboard utility named as “Stock and Flow of Trademarks” to show…
Funding to protect your intellectual property
Business entities, regardless of its size, commonly complain about their expenses and spends on intellectual property (IP) protection. As a result, they are reluctant to take appropriate actions against infringers which puts them at considerable risk in losing revenue. However, this is attributed to the lack of awareness of benefits from protecting IP and also…