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Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys has been established precisely to help corporate leverage anticipated business and economic value from its efficient creation, protection and enforcement of their Intellectual Properties. Khurana & Khurana has created a unique and strategic position for itself by giving End-to-End IP services to its clients from the inception stage of creation of IP to successful commercialization of the IP for fulfillment of desired business objectives. The role and importance of patent professionals in IP (intellectual property) portfolio management (IPM) are increasing becoming significant within business, academic, and legal entities.
View moreKhurana & Khurana has a legacy of over ten years in Patent Litigation and serves some of the leading Corporates for IP infringement matters. Our experience includes finding the potential infringers for the IP owners through due diligence and assessing the market for the same. For doing this, our firm has Patent/Trade Mark Attorneys/Practitioners who have advanced qualifications in varied technology domains and understand complete nuances of claim mapping and provisions of enforcement under different IP Laws.
View moreKhurana & Khurana assists Corporates in maximizing opportunities from their IP portfolios through accurate legal opinions that ensure that all possible ways to solve a problem are identified and due-diligence of each way is put across in the right manner such that the client can take a judicious call on the way to proceed forward. K&K renders Prior art, Freedom to Operate, Validity, and Non-infringement opinions relating to a client’s products and technologies. K&K also prepares a comprehensive IP Litigation Strategy before initiating with a legal suit to ensure that the clients understands the next steps clearly, sets its expectations, and is cognizant of the costs involved in the process.
View moreCommercial law governs the broad areas of business, commerce and consumer transactions. Commercial law in India has developed rapidly over the years with the opening up approach towards FDI and WTO. It allows, so far as it can, Corporate or person to do business in the way they want and not require them to stick to forms that they may think to be outmoded. Thus, Commercial Law Practice is recognized as a very important and integral element of any corporate operation, and is gaining more and more importance.In this era of globalisation, sweeping changes in business strategies require Corporates to meet challenge of complying with commercial contract law for the smooth functioning of its business and commerce.
View moreThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is responsible for the administration of Top Level Domain Names. The Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy provides for the settlement of domain name disputes for the Generic Top Level Domains Name (GTLD) such as .com, .edu, .net, among others. The UDRP complaints may be filed with any of the ICANN accredited arbitration centres. UDRP also allows for the filing of the complaints at the jurisdictional civil court where the Registrant or the Registrar is located. Where the Registrar or the Registrant is located in India, the dispute may be resolved through legal action at the civil court.
View moreAttorneys at Khurana & Khurana have developed significant experience in the area of anti-counterfeiting, especially in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Apparels, Footwear, and Medical Devices product verticals, and can assist in devising a comprehensive strategy for curbing counterfeit products by outlining all possible risks and assumptions and mapping them with costs involved in each step taken so that a judicious and objective step can be taken by the client..
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Export in the simplest language means and kind of goods or services being sold or traded outside the domestic territories of the country. “Export of Services” is one such kind of trading made outside India specifically with respect to services that are being provided to the clients of the organizations, the individuals, or to any … Continue reading GST on Export of Services
Read MoreOn 22nd February 2021, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) released the draft guidelines for influencer advertising on digital media platforms. The draft was open to feedbacks from influencers, agencies, public, and shareholders. Subsequently, ASCI released its final guidelines on Thursday, 27th May, 2021 will be applicable to commercial messages or advertisements published on … Continue reading Final Guidelines for Influencer Advertising on Digital Media
Read MoreCENVAT or central VAT is a credit paid in advance in order to procure a shipment of manufactured goods instead of having to pay in cash towards central excise on shipment of manufacture of the final product. The concept behind CENVAT is analogous to that of wallet points available for online shopping platforms or applications, … Continue reading Denial of Refund of Cenvat Credit WRT Export Incentives: Valid or Not?
Read MoreDissemination of e-newspapers on Telegram has raised a copyright debate under the steady gaze of the Delhi High Court. Because of CoVID-19 limitations coming into power, actual dispersion and house-to-house conveyance of papers got cruelly affected. As this issue surfaced most paper sites began offering free preliminaries on their individual sites by the methods for … Continue reading Circulation of E-Newspaper: Infringement Under Copyright Law
Read MoreAfter a long hiatus of nearly 8 months, the GST Council meeting was convened on 28th May 2021. On the agenda were important expected items such as waiver of tax on various medicines, medical equipment, and health services. Several states had proposed a complete tax waiver on COVID vaccines, oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, oximeters, etc. … Continue reading Practical Analysis of Decisions Taken In 43rd GST Council Meeting
Read MoreThe concept of anti-suit injunction and anti-enforcement injunction is gaining prominence worldwide including in India. Recently, the Delhi High Court in Interdigital Technology Corporation vs. Xiaomi Corporation & Ors.[1] granted an anti-enforcement injunction. It was held that a foreign court cannot restrain a party from pursuing its cause before Indian Court when Indian jurisdiction is … Continue reading Interdigital vs.Xiaomi: India’s First Anti-Enforcement Injunction Order
Read MoreIntroduction The pandemic caused due to COVID-19 has resulted in the exponential development of online entertainment. The content on the OTT platforms and social media has been subjected to repeated scrutiny and thus resulting in the urgency of regulation of content on the digital space. The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics … Continue reading The New Norms for OTT Platforms, Online News and Digital Media: An Overview
Read More“India is a multilingual country, which can make brand management difficult. The fact that one word may have many synonyms in another language, as well as the variety of languages and scripts, can increase the possibility of infringement and pass off”[1]. Trademarks are the intangible assets of the proprietor. A proprietor spends time and resources … Continue reading Legality of Using Common Terms for Trademark in View of Various Indian Cases
Read MoreThe main purpose of the government behind Input Tax Credit was to target and scrutinize the purchase and selling of the goods and services by the registered recipients and the supplies in order to detect any fraudulent dealer. There have been cases where the Tax Authorities would have caught hold of the recipient of the … Continue reading Non-Reversal of Buyer’s ITC for not Depositing Tax by The Seller: Recent Madras High Court Ruling
Read MoreOn 2 March 2021, the Delhi High Court settles the debate on Arbitrability of IP disputes in the case of Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. v. Lectro E-Mobility Private Ltd. [1]The case dealt with the dispute between the Munjal family groups over the trademark ‘Hero’.In this case, the Delhi HC indemnified the position of IP … Continue reading Hero Electric v. Lectro E-Mobility: Arbitrability of IP disputes
Read MoreA new amendment in the copyright rules has been in the works since 2019. The Department of Industry and Internal Trade had proposed the rules with the aim of increasing efficiency in the procedural law. The last amendment happened in 2016 when “services” were brought under the purview of the copyright act. However, as technology … Continue reading Fresh Amendments to the Copyright Rules: Are these enough?
Read MoreCopyright is a bundle of rights that exist in a tangible work i.e. in a material expression, and existing from the moment, such copyrightable work is created. Though no formalities of a registration process are per se required to avail such rights, it is always advisable to register such work under the Copyright regime, to … Continue reading Conundrum of effect on Copyright Registration of Correction in Particulars of Work Post Registration
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