How does India fit into your Global IP Strategy? – IP Counsel Cafe Feature
EPISODE 15: India in Your Global IP Strategy
How does India fit into your Global IP Strategy? How is the business landscape changing and how is India’s IP system responding? Why are companies setting up shop in India? Sandy Chan speaks with Srihari SK, Partner at the Indian law firm, K&S...
Date of design registration: Understanding versus reality – Asia IP Law Feature
James Anderson, in his novel called The Never-Open Desert Diner, said that “Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.”
This quote is aptly justified in the verdict delivered...
Language and Law: The Incomprehensible Lawyer – Part I
Language is the most significant medium of communication. Other than “sign” language and “body” language, “language” is made of “words” that are used for oral and written communication. The main purpose of communication is to convey information and ideas.
As lawyers, we spend a large part of our time crafting,...
For plain English, not gobbledygook – Commentary
he Supreme Court of India has referred a judgment of the Himachal Pradesh High Court back to the court on the ground that it is incomprehensible.
In support of this description, Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah quoted three paragraphs from the high court judgment. A painstaking reading of the quoted text reveals...
Language and Law: The Incomprehensible Lawyer – Part 2
The first part of this article described the peculiarities of the language of the law. In this concluding part, we cover the fascinating history of the lawyers’ language, why the legal profession persists with its language even though the English language for the rest of the world has changed from the middle ages and evolved, and the green shoots of...
Indian fashion industry waking up to Intellectual Property protection
The luxury fashion brand Burberry recently burnt its unsold and unwanted stock worth £28 million ($36.68 million) to protect intellectual property
Luxury fashion brand, Burberry raised many eyebrows when it burnt unsold and unwanted stock worth £28 million ($36.68 million) in the past year. The company took this step to...
Protecting IoT in India with IP – Current and Emerging Trends
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Homegrown dairy brand from India wins trademark, copyright infringement case in Canada
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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,...
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...