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Court Re-Emphasizes the Exclusion of Generic Terms from Registration

This post was first published on March 30, 2012. Recently Madras High Court has delivered a very interesting judgment on trademark infringement and passing off...

Grounds for Refusal of Trademark Registration – Part III

This image depicts the 'Trademark' and 'Registered' symbols. This post is a part of a series on what marks are permissible as trademarks. Click on the image to read the full post.

This post was first published on 8th July, 2014. In today’s post, we’ll be talking about Section 9(3), thereby concluding one half of the...

Trans-border Reputation of Well Known Marks – Part IV

This post was first published on 7th July, 2014. Spillover reputation of trademarks is a subject matter of endless legal tussles. Indian Courts and...

MUCOSOLVIN confusingly similar to MUCOSOLVAN

This post was first published on 5th January, 2014. The Hon’ble Delhi High Court delivered another thought-provoking judgment on the 16th of December, 2013 related to...

An In-Depth look at the Trademark Registration Process- Part 1

The image reads 'Trademark Registration and Protection' with a heap of Trademark signs in the backdrop. This post talks about the process of trademark registration. Click on the image to read the full post.

This post was first published on 2nd July, 2014. A trademark is a sign that is used to identify goods and services as those...

Comparative Advertising: Pepsodent v. Colgate

This image depicts a toothpaste tube shaped like a banana. It raises the question of such possibility. This post explores how traditional knowledge is used and misused by patents. Click on the image to read the full post.

This post was first published on August 21, 2013 There is yet another war between Hindustan Unilever Limited (Pepsodent) and Colgate- Palmolive (Colgate), regarding a...

Doctrine of unclean hands- Now a defense in trademark infringement!

This post was first published on March 22, 2011.The Indian Courts, in the recent past have continuously surprised us by pulling one trick after the...

History and Evolution of the Trademark System

First Publication Date: 7th January 2011 History of (trade)marks Dating back to those barbarian times where majority of people could not read or write is...

Trademark Registration in India

The Trademark process outlines in this post has changed owing to changes in law. It may be noted that the post provides details of the trademark registration process as it existed 10 years back, and maybe useful for research/educational purposes.Registration of a trademark is not compulsory. However, registered trademarks have additional benefits when compared to unregistered trademarks. Read more

Grounds for Refusal of Trademark Registration – Part II

In the previous blog post, we discussed Section 9(1) which laid down a few absolute grounds for refusal of registration of trademarks. Today, we’ll explain...