Category IPR

Intellectual Property

What is Intellectual Property? Intellectual property (IP) refers to mental creations such as ideas, literary and artistic works, compositions, and commercial marks, titles, and pictures. Patents, copyright, and trademarks, for example, are legal mechanisms that allow individuals to get credit…

Patent

Patent means a new invention in form of a device/article or process of production. It should be invented and a novel one. Such patents are protected under the Patents Act, 1970. “A Patent is an intellectual-property relating to invention and…

Copyright

What is Copyright? Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive rights including both economic and moral rights to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time, which generally lasts for the…

Trademark

What is Trademark ? A trademark is a unique mark or sign representing you, your company, your products or the services that you provide and distinctive in nature, which distinguishes it from one firm to another and thus building a…

Trademark Opposition

What is Trademark Opposition? If a mark is opposed within 4 months from the date of the advertisement then it is taken down from the Journal. A trademark will be published in the Trademarks Journal only after the examiner reviews…

Design

Ever wondered what fashion designers or product designers do to safeguard their design? The answer is simple they get their Design protected under the Design Act 2000. Now, not everything can be registered under the Design Act, according to Design…

Trademark Assignment

Assignment of the trademark means when the ownership of the mark is transferred with or without goodwill of the occupation from one person to another. Assignments are required to be recorded in the Register of trade marks for registered trade…