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Introduction : Packaging does more than contain a product, it tells a story. Founder’s story written carefully, an explanation behind choosing cold-pressed oil or a memorable tagline which distinguishes one business from dozens of competitors. Then, six months later, a competitor launches a product whose packaging sounds almost identical to yours. The immediate question is whether such copying is legally permissible. Many businesses assume that without a patent, they have no

Introduction : The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has rapidly become one of the most consequential forums for pharmaceutical patent disputes in Europe. For innovator companies, generic manufacturers, and biosimilar developers, the UPC offers a single procedural route capable of producing enforceable remedies across multiple European Union member states. Its early pharmaceutical case law has already shaped key issues such as preliminary injunctions, evidence preservation, the scop

Introduction : Universities and colleges are one of the best institutions producing immense research but are often overlooked. This is because companies hesitate to invest in their research during early invention stage and universities hesitate to give exclusive rights over the research to the company. In such scenarios, option agreements offer a middle path to satisfy both stakeholders. An option agreement is a contract that gives a party the right, but not the obligation,

Introduction : Tax notices rarely arrive at a convenient time. When an assessment finds underreported income, the tax and interest are only part of the bill, because a penalty can follow. The Income Tax Act,2025 gives taxpayers a way to avoid that penalty, and the process has just changed. The CBDT has notified a revised application for seeking a penalty waiver. Here is what businesses need to know. What Is the Penalty Waiver under Section 440(2)? Fundamentally, a penalty wai

Introduction : The Delhi High Court, in a case of ECG Easy Connect Logistics Pvt Ltd vs Commissioner of Customs Airport (2024), lowered the penalties on a courier agent for his involvement in bringing in counterfeit iPhones worth millions of rupees under the ‘doctrine of proportionality', and forfeiture was reduced by 50%, with the license forfeiture period changed from a permanent ban to two years. The Court considered the courier a ‘peripheral actor’, even while holding him

Introduction : Digital Content has become an important commercial asset that can be copied, reposted, and monetized by others very easily. Businesses use photographs, promotional videos, website articles, and advertisements to establish their identity and attract customers. Copyright owners therefore rely on takedown notices to seek removal of infringing content. Conversely, businesses whose content is removed may need to establish that their use was authorised or legally per

Introduction : Most companies build their brand mark without even thinking about defending it from others. Most companies maintain records such as sales, advertising, and distribution records only for accountancy and operational purposes, hardly seeing that the brand they have built from scratch may need to be proved if challenged. The alarm rings once a cease-and-desist notice, rectification petition, or any infringement or passing-off claim knocks on the door, and the propr

Introduction : Section 3 of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (“RERA Act”) is in many ways a mere procedural precondition to registration that a promoter has to fulfill, or fail to fulfill, with little consequence beyond the regulation. However, a division bench of the Karnataka High Court in Navaratan Jhunjhunwala & Anr. v. Karnataka Real Estate Appellate Tribunal & Ors. on 16 July 2026 took a much wider view of it, one that touches upon the very heart o

Introduction : Conflict of Interest in procurement processes occurs when an individual who is handling decisions related to procurement and while doing so has personal, financial, or professional interests that could unethically influence choice of suppliers, contract negotiations, or purchasing outcomes. Such conflicts can arise when employees have secret or personal or fiscal relationships with suppliers, or heads of the companies or greed related to personal incentives. Ma

Introduction : Warehouses just aren’t what they used to be. The old days of muscle work and noisy forklifts have given way to rows of robots, smart conveyor belts, sensors everywhere, and software quietly steering the show. The idea is simple work should get faster and people shouldn’t break their backs dragging stuff around. But with all these upgrades, you don’t just plug things in and walk away. There’s a different kind of risk now. Picture working there: you’re dodging ro

Introduction : The division sale appears to be one transaction. In reality, it is six or seven transactions that happen at the same time, but each has its own decision-making body, paperwork, and timeline. The transaction that is often forgotten is never the board’s resolution. It is either the lender’s consent, the counterparty’s right to reject the transfer, or the shareholder’s approval, which applies only due to the division reaching the statutory level. The blog follows

Introduction : Drug names are rarely invented from nothing. A company that sells a pantoprazole tablet, a rabeprazole tablet and an etoricoxib tablet will often attach one recognizable syllable to each generic name, so that doctors and patients come to read the syllable as a signature. After a few decades, the syllable does more work than any single product name. Indian trade mark law calls the resulting group a ‘family of marks’, and its enforcement keeps returning to the De