This is a regarding the statutory requirement to file Statements of Working (Form 27)   in respect the Indian granted patents. In accordance with the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2024, every patentee and licensee is now required to furnish a working report in respect of every period of three financial years. The mandatory filing window for the current three-year block has now commenced. This filing is required in either of the following situations: All patents granted on or bef

In India, the law governing the trade marks is embodied in the Indian Trade Marks Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as “ the Act ”). Two of the imperative provisions for brand owners are Section 27- which deals with the common law remedy of passing off- and Section 29- which deals with statutory infringement action of trade marks that are registered. While the two concepts, infringement and passing off, may be overlapping, they both, however, serve distinct but complementar

In the case of Alkem Laboratories Limited v. Prevego Healthcare and Research Private Limited, [1] the Delhi High Court, delivered a significant judgment on January 17, 2026, revisiting the scope of trade mark protection over common alphabetic expressions in the pharmaceutical industry.   The Plaintiff, Alkem Laboratories Limited , a pharmaceutical manufacturer, claimed use of the marks and in respect of multivitamin and nutraceutical preparations since the year 1998 and 2008

Rebranding in trademark law is not a cosmetic or purely commercial exercise; rather, it is a deliberate restructuring of proprietary identity. When a company changes its corporate name or primary commercial identifier, it effectively alters the legal mechanism through which that goodwill is recognized, preserved, and enforced. High profile transformations such as Facebook’s rebranding to Meta Platforms and Twitter’s transition to X demonstrate that rebranding often accompanie

Introduction As global brands enter the Indian market, they are often reshaped by local speech patterns. While we’ve proudly built a reputation as a country rich in culture, curiosity, and an unstoppable drive to succeed, we also share certain quirks that unite us in collective amusement. One of the most endearing and consistently entertaining of these is our habit of mispronouncing brand names.   Whether it’s someone confidently calling Puma “Poo-ma” or Xiaomi as “Jao-mee”/