A Legal Issues Seminar’ (LIS) was conducted by Sunidhi Bansal, Associate, on issues such as related to Sponsorships, IP in Sports and Dilution, Debasement, Denigration, Erosion & Tarnishment of Trademarks.

The seminar particularly touched upon the issues pertaining to ambush marketing and whether existing legislation sufficient to deal with activity pertaining to ambush marketing, use of sports video clips & fair dealing and defense of parody or satire in case of trademark infringement.

The presentation can be accessed here.

Krithika Muthuraman, Associate, lead an engaging discussion on the prevailing measures to help bridge the gender gap in IP ownership during this week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) session. The discussion delved into the causes resulting in the gender gap, current measures in place to bridge them and how they can potentially be supplemented by awareness drives, financial schemes or special provisions in procedure.  

We are pleased to announce that ALG India Law Offices LLP has been ranked amongst the best law firms of the world in World Trademark Review’s 2021 WTR 1000 Rankings. The firm’s trademark practice features in the Enforcement and Litigation as well as Prosecution and Strategy category. Managing Partner, Sheja Ehtesham has also been individually recognized.

For more details, please see the mentioned link:

https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/directories/wtr1000/rankings/india; https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/directories/wtr1000/firms/alg-india-law-offices-llp

A Legal Issues Seminar’ (LIS) was conducted by Sri Lekha Rayapati, Associate, on issues such as related to Information Technology, Intermediary Liability & Safe Harbor, Cyberstalking & Other Cyber Crimes etc. The seminar particularly touched upon the offence of identity theft, Intermediary liability & safe harbor provisions and regulation of OTT platforms. The seminar further shed light on the current position of these issues under the Information Technology Act, 2000

While session sparked interesting questions, it concluded with an extensive discussion on whether or not there currently exists a sufficient framework for regulation of OTT Platforms.

The presentation can be accessed here.

A warm welcome to ALG’s new additions: – Shreya Kunwar who joins us as a Trainee Associate and Aishwarya Pande who joins us as an Associate.

We’re excited to have you on board!