ALG’s Sheja Ehtesham and Ashwani Balayan are attending the International Trademark Association (INTA) virtual Leadership Meeting from May 03 – May 07. If you would like to set up a virtual meeting, please reach out to Sheja Ehtesham at sheja.ehtesham@algindia.com or Ashwani Balayan at ashwani.balayan@algindia.com.

During last week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) Session, Krithika Muthuraman, Associate, lead a discussion on whether there should be dedicated IP-related programs for children as a voluntary activity. The session saw an engaging discussion on the potential for such programs to tap into and encourage creativity and innovation among young minds and raising awareness about IP as an aid to inform as well as curb potential infringements. During the discussion, the team also looked into currently administered programs by the World Intellectual Property Organization and United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Intern Surbhi Nautiyal (Pre-Final Year) has commenced her Patent Internship and Interns Arghya Samaddar, Poushali Das, Yamini Gurjar (Final Year) and Divya Sasidharan, Nandita, MD Maaz Alam, Yash Raj and Merlin Mary Zacharias (Pre-Final Year) have commenced their General IP Internship with the firm’s law practice.

We hope their stay in the firm during the 4 week period of their internship will be mutually enriching and that the firm and they will learn exciting things from each other!

Interns – Ankita Panwar and Ashay Kaushik (Final Year Interns); and Ujjawal Bhargava (Pre-Final Year Intern) have successfully completed their General IP Internship at ALG. At the end of their internship, they obliged us with their thoughts and ideas during a Sharing of Reflections (SoR) sessions. Their presence enriched the firm while they interned here. We wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

A ‘Legal Issues Seminar’ (LIS) was conducted by Siddharth Varshney, Associate, on “Whether Parallel Importation of Literary Works is Permitted under the Copyright Act, 1957?”

The seminar touched upon jurisprudence on the legality of parallel importation of literary works under the Copyright Act, 1957 and whether India follows the national or international principle of exhaustion. The session saw questions from the team on whether the relatively settled position of parallel imports under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 will have an impact on parallel imports under the Copyright Act, 1957 as well.

The presentation can be accessed here.