Obtaining the trademark registration is a crucial step for any business towards protecting its intellectual Property Rights (IPR) but maintaining the registration as ‘valid and subsisting’ is equally vital and

Launching a business means introducing oneself to lots of legal formalities. Many start-ups believe that the they have registered the company as per the laws under the Ministry of Corporate

Trademark rights are territorial in nature i.e., recognized and protected in the country in which it has obtained registration. In order to obtain trademark rights and protection outside the home

As per the Indian Law, stamp duty is payable on every instrument[1]. It is an indirect tax paid to the government. The Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899) was

The Associated mark’, as the name suggests, is a mark that can be ‘associated’ or ‘joined’ to another mark.  The marks can be associated provided the marks to be associated are

The basic doctrine of trademark is ‘one mark, one source and one proprietor’.  The single proprietor of a trademark may either be an individual or a jointly owned single entity