On 16 October 2026, the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks published the Draft Guidelines on Use of Artificial Intelligence in Proceedings before the Trade Marks Registry for stakeholder comments, following the directions of the…
On 16 October 2026, the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks published draft guidelines on the use of artificial…
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories opposed Nice Neotech's 'nice' mark for neonatal equipment, citing its pain-relief brand NISE. The Madras High Court examined whether phonetic similarity…
Nayasa Superplast sued Shree Ji Industries before the Delhi High Court over a registered casserole design. The court examined whether a credible challenge to…
In Advy Biosciences v. Swaraj Lifesciences, the Bombay High Court examined whether protection of confidential information survives without a patent when a supply deal…
AI inventions bring together models, training data, and implementation, and as their functioning is probabilistic, not humanly explainable in most cases, and difficult to…
In Tetra Technologies, Inc. v. Union of India, the Delhi High Court examined whether deemed abandonment of a patent application can rest on a…
In Association of Certified Fraud Examiners v. Kanwaljeet Kaur, the Delhi High Court examined whether an expelled member's coaching institute could keep using the…
Can a restaurant brand that is barely two years old stop a cloud kitchen using the same name? The Delhi High Court thought so.…
In The North Face Apparel Corp v. Controller of Patents and Designs, the Madras High Court examined whether a garment tracking invention lacked patent…
Open source software has been hugely successful, but the open source model cannot be applied to AI as it is, because an AI system…
The Indian Patent Office has taken a necessary first step by issuing Guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in patent examination.…
A letter to the Secretary, DPIIT signals that a Copyright Act amendment may be underway, though no draft Bill has been made…
The $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement has received final approval, and the court has entered final judgment and dismissed the action with…
Patent attorneys and agents carry knowledge, skill, and experience that the patent system depends on. They are not mere conduits for the…