Homegrown dairy brand from India wins trademark, copyright infringement case in Canada
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The Khadi and Village Industries Commission takes down illegal Khadi products online
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission has forced e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal to remove over 160 links selling products in the name of Khadi.
In fact, KVIC has taken various initiatives to protect the trademark, Khadi, in India and the rest of the world, says Vinai Kumar Saxena,...
The Trademark and GI Battle for Kashmiri Products Must be Taken Seriously
India, being a pioneer in geographical indication protection in the region, must take the lead and be the first one in acceding to the Geneva Act, which offers protection to handicraft GIs as well.
Last month, the World Trademark Review carried a report that the Romanian IP Office (OSIM), after an initial refusal,...
Personal Data Protection Law in India
On 2nd September, 2020, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), Government of India invoking its power under section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009 and in view of the...
India’s improved consumer laws and regulations target counterfeits online
The (New) Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 came into force on July 20, 2020 and July 24, 2020, respectively. The (New) Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 came into force on July 20, 2020 and July 24, 2020,...
Legal provisions for protection from purchasing spurious goods through E-Commerce under The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020
The Indian E-commerce industry has been seeing an upward growth. This has further been accelerated by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lengthy nationwide lockdowns.
On-line shopping is not just convenient in such times, but a necessity. As per an India Brand Equity Foundation (a Trust...
Print Wars: Attack of the Clones
Anecdotal evidence suggests worldwide levels of filings in the 3D-print technology field presently is in order of about 10 times that of filings that occurred in 2007, says Sam Park, principal at SAMPARK & CO in Sydney.
“The increase of patent applications for 3D printing is mainly due to market driven...
CORONIL trademark bid dealt a blow by the courts, but the fight is far from over
Although some expected an opposition due to CORONIL misleading the public as a cure for covid-19, the order is the result of another mark claiming priority.
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Despite controversy over claimed coronavirus cure, CORONIL may be hard to fight at the Indian registry
The trademark registry could become the focus of attention as it considers applications for the claimed coronavirus cure’s name.
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A Response to the Alternate Interpretation on Permissibility of Sub-licensing under Indian Trademark Law
Last week, Kapil had written a guest post giving an alternate interpretation to the arguments in my post on the impermissibility of sub-licensing arrangements under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (‘the TM Act’).
The main counter points by Kapil against my argument that the TM Act does not permit...