In a Public Notice dated March 01, 2023, the Office of CGPDTM appealed to all the IP Practitioners and Officials to volunteer their time strengthening activities of the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM). The mission aims to achieve its objectives by imparting training, spreading IP Awareness, encouraging protection of IP and its fair use. IP Professionals who wish to join in the said voluntary drive can register using the link: https://forms.gle/MRyjqABdcGHeCDwD6

This International Women’s Day, ALG members gathered to celebrate entrepreneurial women in digital spaces. The firm’s Diversity & Inclusion section organised an activity keeping in line with UN’s theme for this year – “#DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. The activity was intended to highlight women-led/women centric small businesses in the digital space. The members shared various women-led small businesses in their circles and encouraged each other to support them. A list of the the small businesses highlighted by members can be found here.

ALG wishes all you strong, intelligent, talented and simply wonderful women a very Happy Women’s Day!

During last week’s PWS Session, Sucharitha Banda, Associate, led a discussion on “Should Grant of Absolute Moral Rights Be Extended to An Author’s Estate?”. The session began with a discussion on the opportunity costs involved waiving off the moral rights, in the backdrop of the recent modification Roald Dahl’s works by his estate. The discussion delved into whether neutral bodies would be better equipped to safeguard the interests of an author versus the author’s estate. The session concluded with the members brainstorming over whether un-assignable moral rights which subsist exclusively with the author and die with them are better suited to serve the authors’ interest.

Interns – Shreya Aggarwal, Dhananjay Sharma, Harshita Dixit and Mahima Chanchalani 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 – Gaurav Pratap (Pre-Final Year), Nabira Farman, and Akshita Goyal (Final Year) have successfully completed their Internship at ALG. At the end of their internship, they obliged us with their thoughts and ideas during the Sharing of Reflections (SoR) session. Their presence enriched the firm while they interned here. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.