October 2025 | IP and Legal Highlights

Case Review : Mr. A.R. Rahman v. Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar & Ors.

2025 Guidelines for Examination of Ayush Related Inventions

Who Owns a Patent?

The Critical Mistake to Avoid Before Showcasing Your Product at a Tradeshow

Budgeting the Patent Process: A Strategic Approach for Innovators

What’s New in the Revised 2025 CRI Guidelines? (Part 2)

What’s New in the Revised 2025 CRI Guidelines? (Part 1)

Patent Pending: More Than Just a Gimmick

4 Things to Keep in Mind While Drafting a Patent

Top 3 Mistakes Innovators Make That Cause the Loss of Patent Rights

Why Do The Majority of Successful Innovators Conduct a Patentability Search?

How to Get A Patent Granted in 5 Simple Steps

Patent Thickets in the Software Industry

Case Law: Ramya S. Moorthy V. Registrar of Trade Marks And Others

Patents Simplified: Retinal Prosthesis

Why is Patent Protection Granted for 20 Years?

How Can You Effectviely Build a Patent Portfolio?

7 Reasons Behind the Surge in Patent Filings and Grants in India

How Do the Changes in India’s Patent Rules Help Startups and R&D Departments?

5 Things You Should Know About Signify’s Product Recall for Patent Infringement

Why Are Green Patents Growing in India?

Navigating Foreign Filing License Requirements in India: A Simple Guide to Filing Patents Abroad

Which Invention Lets You Know About Social Media Toxicity? | IP Conversations

Are Arms and Ammunition Patentable? | IP Conversations

What is the Doctrine of Exhaustion In Copyright Law?

What’s An Invention That Optimizes AC in ATMs? | IP Conversations

How Does Cybersquatting Effect Online Brands?

Can Copyright Law Safeguard Character Costumes?

What Is Patent Anticipation? | IP Conversations

Patents Simplified: Compressible Mortar and Pestle

What‘s The Invention Which Lets You Know If You‘ve Been Bowled Out? | IP Conversations

How Can We Safeguard Trade Secrets in the Digital Era?

Why Should You Do A Patent Search? | IP Conversations

Do Fictional Characters Have Copyright Protection?

What Are Trademark Classes? | IP Conversations

How Does IP Help in Safeguarding Traditional Knowledge?

Why Are Patent Terms Limited? | IP Conversations

Patents Simplified: A System for Sorting Packages in a Warehouse

Can a Patent Protect Your Beer from the Weather? | IP Conversations

What Are Some Important Cases and Provisions Regarding Well-Known Trademarks In India?

Can you Trademark Your Youtube Channel Name? | IP Conversations

What Are Well-Known Trademarks and How Can You File One in India?

Can Patents Shield You From Competition Law? | IP Conversations

Patents Simplified: Energy Optimization in Aircrafts

Can You Use Your Brainwaves to Move? | IP Conversations

Should Business Methods Be Patentable?

How Is Social Media Content Protected? | IP Conversations

Patents Simplified: Methods and Systems for Assisting a Driver of a Vehicle

How Can You Protect A Coffee Mug? | IP Conversations

What are Some of the Guidelines for Domain Name Registration in India?

Do You Know About the Patent That Calculated Your Life Expectancy? | IP Conversations

IP Protection in the Fashion Industry

What is Patent Examination? | IP Conversations

What is Fair Use in Copyright Law?

Can Memes Get Copyright Protection? | IP Conversations

What Are the Timelines Involved in PCT and Paris Convention Systems?

What Are Patent Working Requirements?

Can You Patent A Mobile Application? | IP Conversations

How Can Trademarks Protect Domain Names in India?

What are Well-Known Trademarks? | IP Conversations

Compulsory Licensing In India

Can You Patent A Recipe? | IP Conversations

What Are Some Potential Effects of ChatGPT on Intellectual Property?

Can You Trademark Your Signatures? | IP Conversations

Comparative Advertising Around the World

How Can Winnie the Pooh Become A Horror Movie Villain? | IP Conversations

Can An Invention Be Protected By Both Patents and Trade Secrets?

How Do You Tax A Patent? | IP Conversations

Are Comparative Advertisements Allowed in India?

What is a Patent Claim? | IP Conversations

Are Intermediaries Liable for Third-Party Content?

Can You Patent A Perfume? | IP Conversations

ChatGPT: Who Owns The Copyright?

How and Why is Super Mario an IP? | IP Conversations

India’s Decriminalization Bill and What It Means For IP (Part II)

What Makes Trade Secrets Valuable?| IP Conversations

India’s Decriminalization Bill and What It Means For IP (Part I)

Is ChatGPT Coming For Your Job?| IP Conversations

What is a Green Patent?| IP Conversations

What is the First Sale Doctrine in Copyright Law?

What is Patent Licensing? | IP Conversations

How Can IP Protect Mobile Apps?

Can We Use IP to Protect Software?

Are Tesla Patents Free? | IP Conversations

What Should You Keep In Mind When Drafting a SaaS Agreement?

Why Must You Pay Attention to IP and IP Strategy?

Can An AI Be An Inventor? | IP Conversations

Can the IPO Raise New Objections During the Patent Hearing?

Can IP Protect Herbal Drugs?

How Did Valentines’ Day Make Patent History? | IP Conversations

Can You Get A Worldwide Patent?

How Do You Protect Trade Secrets?

Has Lamborghini Trademarked the Way Its Doors Open? | IP Conversations

5 Mistakes Commonly Made by IP Owners

How Do Patents Affect Public Health?

What Is Expedited Patent Examination? | IP Conversations

Is Your Product Patentable?

What is the State of IPR in Today’s World?

What Is A Selfmark And Who Can Own One? | IP Conversations

What Exactly is a Patent?

What Are the Benefits of Trademark Registration?

What Are Trademark Classes? | IP Conversations

Should You File a Provisional Patent Application?

What is the Impact of Patents on National Growth?

What is Patent Anticipation? | IP Conversations

How Does the Patent Process Work in India?

How Do You Oppose A Trademark In India?

What is the Concept of Unity of Invention? | IP Conversations

What Is the Economic Significance of IP?

What is Patent Examination? | IP Conversations

What Is Mandatory Registration for Your Copyright?

What is a Divisional Patent Application? | IP Conversations

How Do You Get a “Patent Pending” Status in India?

Case Note: R.G Anand v. M/s Deluxe Films & Ors.

Who Owns the Cover Version of a Song? | IP Conversations

Where Can You Find IP In Your Daily Life?

When Can a Trademark Not Be Registered?

How Do You Innovate Effectively? – Dr. Hemang Shah | Innovation Journey |  The Priggya Arora Show

What is a Patent Landscape Search? | IP Conversations

IP Rights in the Virtual World

Important Patent Documents Part III – Patent Grant & Opposition

What Is a Freedom to Operate Search? | IP Conversations

What are the IT Rules Amendments of 2022?

Ribociclib: Is Compulsory Licensing the Answer?

What Is Patent Publication? | IP Conversations

Vifor vs. CCI : Competition and Patent Law in India

Important Patent Documents Part II – Patent Prosecution

Can A Saree Get IP Protection? | IP Conversations

Important Patent Documents Part I – Patent Filing

What’s the Difference Between Geographical Indicators and Certification Marks?

Does Your Invention Qualify For A Patent? | IP Conversations

Why is Data Protection Important?

What is Patent Insurance?

Can You Patent An Idea? | IP Conversations

Case Note: Novartis AG vs Union Of India & Ors.

What is the Deadline for Filing an Office Action Response to a US Trademark?

What’s the Limit of Trademark Protection? | IP Conversations

What is Novelty in Patents?

How Can We Effectively Make Use of the RTI Act?

What is a Provisional Patent Application? | IP Conversations

What Are the Civil Remedies Given to IP Under TRIPS?

How Can You Protect Software in India?

Why Are Patent Terms Limited? | IP Conversations

What Are the Effects of Digitization on Copyright Infringement?

How Do You Deal With a Lapsed Patent?

Can You Protect Ornamental Objects? | IP Conversations

Have TRIPS Flexibilities Made Medicine More Accessible?

Why Are Trade Secrets So Important to Businesses?

Can A Granted Patent Lapse? | IP Conversations

How Do You Tax A Patent?

What is Trade Dress Protection?

What Are Standard Essential Patents? | IP Conversations

Case Note: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., v. Neapco Holdings LLC (2022)

Can You Protect a Design Internationally?

Why Should You Do A Patent Search? | IP Conversations

What Is Pegasus Spyware and Why Is It In the News?

Case Note: Dabur India Limited V. Ashok Kumar & Ors

What is a PCT Application? | IP Conversations

Patentability Requirements in India, the USA, and the EU

How Can You File a Patent In Multiple Countries? | IP Conversations

Why Did Oppo and OnePlus Phones Get “Banned” in Germany?

Patents Simplified: Can We have a Smartphone With A Full-Surface Screen?

Why and When Should You File For A Patent? | IP Conversations

How Do You Patent A Business Method?

Can We Trademark the National Flag? | IP Conversations

What is Cybersquatting?

Can We Photograph IP-Protected Objects? | IP Conversations

How Do You Patent Living Organisms in Europe?

Case Note: Dabur India Limited V. Ashok Kumar & Ors

What is a Patent Cliff?

How Can Athletes Use IP? | IP Conversations

6 Things You Need to Know About Design Protection

Can Mathematical Methods be Patented? | IP Conversations

How Do You Register a Design in India?

Can We Protect Food with IP? | IP Conversations

Can “Deemed To Be Abandoned” Patents Be Revived?

Can Patent Claims be Interpreted Broadly?

What Happens When Organizations Don’t Do Their Due Diligence? | IP Conversations

What’s the Difference Between a Trademark and a Brand?

What is the Influence of IP on E-Sports and Gaming?

Can You Patent Innovative Agricultural Methods? | IP Conversations

What Are Performer’s Rights?

Can Food Plating Be Protected by IP?

Can Surnames Be Trademarked? | IP Conversations

How Do You Revoke a Patent?

An Introduction to NFTs

Can A Granted Patent Be Revoked? | IP Conversations

How Do You Decide if a Trademark is Likely to Cause Confusion?

How Do You Protect Software with Copyright Law?

Can Software Be Patented in India? | IP Conversations

IP Overview | Patent Opposition in India

IP Simplified | Overview of the Patents Act, 1970

What Kind of Drugs Can Be Patented in India? | IP Conversations

What is the Idea-Expression Dichotomy In Copyright Law?

What is the Patent Cooperation Treaty?

Are Arms and Ammunition Patentable? IP Conversations

What is the Paris Convention in IP Law?

Who Owns Celebrity Publicity Rights? | IP Conversations

What is Deceptive Similarity in Trademarks?

What are the Copyright Issues involved in Research?

Does IP Play Any Role in Religion? | IP Conversations

What is the First Sale Doctrine in Copyright?

What is the Fast Tracking of Green Patents?

Can Cartoon Characters Be Protected? | IP Conversations

What Are Amazon Prime’s Video Content Policy Guidelines?

Can Unregistered Trademarks Be Protected?

What Can’t Be Patented? | IP Conversations

Color Marks – A New Palette in the world of IPR

Patents Simplified: Automatic Multi-Functional Life Rescue Flood House

What Are Copyright Societies?

Who Owns Bluetooth Technology? | IP Conversations

Brand Protection in India and the USA, A Comparison

How Do Copyright Exceptions Work Under Indian Law?

What is a Trade Secret? | IP Conversations

Can You Use Graphics Similar To Popular Brands? | IP Conversations

How Do You Respond to a Trademark Troll?

Do Clothes Have IP Protection? | IP Conversations

How Can You Protect Your Social Media Content?

Can Colours Be Protected as IP? | IP Conversations

Examining Traditional Knowledge Through the Lens of IP Law

What Is the Stance of US Law on Works Made For Hire?

What is Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act?

Can Characters Be Copyrighted in India?

The Shreya Singhal Judgement & Section 66A of the IT Act

What’s the Relationship between Descriptiveness and Distinctiveness in Trademarks?

How Does Patent Evergreening Affect Innovation?

What is Joint Authorship in Copyright Law?

Patents Simplified: How Do Multi-Foldable Laptops Work?

Copyright and Song Covers: Whose Permission Do You Need?

How Do Patent Pools Affect Innovation?

Patents Simplified: A Solution for Sewage Treatment

Is Minor Usage of Media Material Copyright Infringement?

What is the WIPO Copyright Treaty?

What Are Authors’ Moral Rights?

What is India’s Data Security Regime?

How Can We Use Comparative Advertisements in India?

The Role of IP in Mergers and Acquisitions

How Do You Calculate of Damages Arising Out of Trademark and Copyright Infringement?

Tattoos and Copyright: How Does Having a Picture Inked to Your Body Interact With Authorship Rights?

How Can IP Owners Enforce Their Rights Across Borders?

How Do You Trademark Non-Traditional Marks in India?

How Do GamePlays & Walkthroughs Affect Creator Rights?

Digital Rights Management – Boon or Bane?

Why Distinctiveness Matters in Trademark Law

GI As a Tool for Rural Development

How Does Intellectual Property Influence AI & Robotics Healthcare?

Do Performers Have Any Rights Under Copyright Law?

What Are Parallel Imports, and How Legal Are They?

Why Are Semiconductor Layouts Treated Differently Under the IP Regime?

How Are Startups Affected By the IP Regime?

Should Consumers Possess the Right to Repair?

Can We Use Artificial Intelligence to Protect Trademarks?

Patents and the Right to Health in the COVID-19 Era

How Does the Fair Use Concept Work in India?

AI-Generated Inventions and Their Patentability

How did Disney Influence US Copyright Law?

What Are the Guidelines Pertaining to Legal Reporting?

The Basics of Character Merchandising

Why Do Celebrities Not Own Their Paparazzi Photos?

How Do We Deal With Fake News?

How Does Digital Piracy Affect Cinematographic Works?

How Do We Deal With Rogue Websites?

How Do We Protect Film Director Rights in India?

Why is the Optis v. Apple Saga Significant?

The Core Principles of Trademark Fluidity

Encouraging Innovation: The Way Forward

Who Owns the IP Created By Employees?

The Arbitrability of IP Matters in India

The Neighboring Rights of News Publishers

Patent Evergreening and Its Effects

Fair Use or Fair Dealing: An Exception to Copyright IP

Can APIs be Protected Under Copyright Law?

First Sale Doctrine and the Exhaustion of IP Rights

Sound Recording Rights and Copyright Societies

Twitters’ Stand Against Indian Intermediary Guidelines

What Are Anti-Trust or Anti-Competition Laws?

Corporate Control and Agricultural Rights

Germanys’ Move to Deter Frivolous Patent Litigation

What is Originality in Copyright?

What Does Teslas’ Patent Portfolio Mean for the Road?

Software and IP Protection

Data Privacy and India’s Emerging Data Policies

Getting the Most Out of Your IP (Part II)

Patent Wavier: The Real Answer to Vaccine Shortage?

Getting the Most Out of Your IP (Part I)

The State of Covid-19 IP Waivers

The Battle of the Baskets: Trademark Distinctiveness in Businesses

Flying Motorcycles and Legal Frameworks

Patent Development and Distribution during a Pandemic

Apple’s New Patents for Slimmer Laptops

What Does Mandatory Registration Mean for Your Copyright?

A Look into Sony’s Variable Object Game Controller

IP Protection For Your App: Why, Why Not and How

A Note on the Upcoming Social Media Regulations

The End of the IPAB?

Apple’s Potential Solution to Fraying Cables

Qualcomm’s Many Anti-Trust Lawsuits

The Effects of Under-Display Cameras on Privacy

A Note on the Designs (Amendment) Rules, 2021

Theories of Moral Rights of Authorship

Can Recipes be Patented?

Protection of Copyright under Berne Convention and TRIPS Agreement

Is it Possible to Copyright Concept Notes?