What you must know about Trademark Registration?

Why is it important to register the trademark? It is common for any entrepreneur to have a business plan when he starts or runs his business. However, it is surprisingly rare to find them to have trademark component as a part of their business plan. Though trademarks are the essential part of any business and the same represent its goodwill and reputation, it is seemingly common that the entrepreneurs have very little thought while choosing...

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498A - Analysis

There has been a massive change in the scenario since the time Arnesh Kumar judgment has been pronounced by Honorable Supreme Court Of India. There has been an advisory issued by Ministry of Home Affairs which is a direction to all Police Forces to act in cases related to 498a/ where punishment is less than 7 years. With these changing times, the questions which are posed to me in weekly meetings have also changed. So I decided to compile all of them  and try to answer each of them in a general manner to provide elementary understanding...

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Enforcement of Foreign Court Awards - Child Custody

Chennai woman wins Indo-US custody battle for only son   CHENNAI: A Chennai-based software engineer won her only son's custody after the Madras high court on Tuesday refused to take cognizance of an interim order of the Superior Court of California, which had granted the permanent custody of the boy to his US-based father, also an engineer. The boy was born in September 2008 when the couple were working in the US. While he was barely 15 months old, the family came to India for a visit, but only the boy and his father returned...

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Dowry Prohibition Act - Excerpts

Introduction The practice of giving a "dowry" or a gift to a woman at marriage is said to have its origins in the system of "streedhan" (women's share of parental wealth given to her at the time of her marriage). As a woman had no right to inherit a share of the ancestral property streedhan was seen as a way by which the family ensured that she had access to some of its wealth. There is no clear proof as to when this practice was first started in India. What began as gifts of land to a woman as her inheritance in an...

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Internship for Law Students at MHRD

  Internship for Law Students_HRD Ministr...

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