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February 28, 2012
The head of India’s IP Office, PH Kurian, is to step down in less than a fortnight and will be succeeded by Chaitanya Prasad
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October 17, 2011
India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has launched a review of the organisational structure of the IP office that could split the patent and trade mark departments and make them autonomous agencies
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April 12, 2011
Admissions that over 44,000 trade mark files have gone missing in India and that the trade mark database is full of errors are just the latest in a litany of administrative errors, incompetence and corruption at the country’s trade mark offices
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March 09, 2011
The arrest of a gold-loving deputy trade mark registrar in Chennai last week for corruption could reinvigorate the drive to clean up India’s trade mark system, said lawyers this week
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November 24, 2010
The Supreme Court in India has ruled that the trade mark Skincliniq is not confusingly similar to the Clinique skincare range in a set back for well-known marks in India
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October 21, 2010
India’s Trade Mark Office has given brand owners whose marks have been unfairly removed from the register until November 30 to appeal the decision
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October 08, 2010
India has no plans to join the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as the country’s top IP official explained in a recent interview
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September 06, 2010
Preparation, promotion and patience are three key requirements when working with Customs, according to speakers at the Asia-Pacific IP Forum
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September 01, 2010
Growing investment in India, and patent reform, have put more attention on the country’s courts. In a roundtable discussion held in Delhi in August, James Nurton asked litigation specialists how judges are responding, whether reforms are needed and what strategies parties should adopt for success
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November 30, 2009
An Indian court has clarified how jurisdiction should be decided in cases dealing with online trade mark infringement