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The law of passing off deals in cases where a misrepresentation to the public may exist due to some sort of association or similarity between two marks or parties.

Pfizer Products Inc., leading pharmaceutical company and manufacturers of VIAGRA filed an application for the grant of an interim injunction to restrain Altamash Khan and another party from using its registered trademark as under the domain name ‘viagra.in’ and URL www.viagra.in.

Transborder reputation has been a matter of dispute, largely elucidated and deliberated upon in the law of trademarks. The principle however finds itself extrapolated to other realms of intellectual property disputes as well.

The Indian online gaming industry is growing at a fast pace.

Through this order, the court acknowledged the dynamic nature of website mirroring fraud and tried to balance the rights of the plaintiff with a consideration of public interest.

Recently, in the case of C. Krishniah Chetty and Sons Private Limited vs. Deepali Company Private Limited, the Karnataka High Court stated that in the absence of the Board Resolution, a Chief Financial Officer ...

With growing environmental awareness and increasing health concerns, consumers are actively seeking eco-friendly products.

The e-commerce market in India is expected to reach USD 200 billion by 2026 with increased smart phone usage...

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has implemented two significant policy reforms to enhance the effectiveness of the corporate insolvency framework in India.

A trademark in relation to a good conveys to the general public and specifically to the consumers about the origin and quality of that good, thereby acquiring reputation in the course of business and time.

In a recent significant legal development, the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012 has amended section 18 of the Copyright Act 1957.

The line between provisions of the Copyright Act and Design Law although independent of each other, find parties approaching the Court to debate these provisions increasingly.

Good faith is absolutely necessary for obtaining interim relief from the Court. Where the plaintiff suppresses any material fact from the Court for the purpose of obtaining the interlocutory relief, the order shall become susceptible to being dissolved on the ground of lack of bonafides and for misleading the Court.

The Draft Rules propose to amend the Patents Rules, 2003 and the DPIIT has sought comments from the stakeholders on these Draft Rules.

Intellectual Property’ can be broadly classified into two branches viz ‘Industrial Property and ‘Copyright’. The former protects inventions and the later literary and artistic works. Copyright law protects only the form of expression of ideas and not the ideas itself.

A draft version of the computer-related inventions (CRI) guidelines was first published by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) on June 28 2013.

The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has made many attempts to examine facts in individual cases.

A patent box is a tax saving regime to incentivize research and development efforts wherein patent revenues are taxed differently from other revenues of a company.