We are pleased to share that Leaders in Law Global Awards 2022 recognised ALG’s Managing Partner Sheja Ehtesham as the Intellectual Property Lawyer of the year in India.
The full list of awardees is available here.
During last week’s PWS Session, Abhilasha Rathore, Associate, led a discussion on “Are Open House Conferences necessary to expedite processing of applications and grievances?”. The session began with a discussion on the tools and mechanisms for grievance redressal already available to Applicants and counsels. The members delved into the efficiency of the already available tools and also deliberated on the challenges faced by right-holders and counsels while making use of these mechanisms. The members discussed and debated the need for open house conferences and the added advantage of being able to communicate with the concerned officers via video conferencing. The members also examined whether organizing open conferences on a regular basis is feasible, and discussed the added strain caused by such conferences on the already limited resources.
A ‘Legal Issues Seminar- General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Shivangi Tandon, Associate, on “Is the Defense of ‘De Minimis’ an Alternate to the Statutory Defense of Fair Use?” The seminar analysed the defence of Fair Use and De and delved into the relevant provisions under the Copyright Act, 1957. The session deconstructed the decisions that have interpreted these defences and laid down the factors to be considered while determining if de minimis is a separate and alternative defence under copyright law. The seminar involved an interesting discussion on the judicial interpretation of the qualitative and quantitative test of the defence of De Minimis. The session concluded with look into the current judicial trend in the application of De Minimis as an alternate defence in copyright infringement matters.
The presentation can be accessed here.
During last week’s PWS Session, Uroosa Shahzad, Trainee Associate, led a discussion on “Would granting protection to body movements be detrimental to public interest?” The session began with a discussion on the growing trend of body movements/gestures being granted protection. The members debated on whether gestures and body movements can function as source identifiers and become identifiable exclusively with a certain individual. Towards this, the members questioned whether granting protection to such gestures and body movements is a right worth initiating enforcement action for, and the need for such a shift in the IP ecosystem. The session concluded with the members brainstorming over a scientific threshold for granting protection to gestures and body movements.
Recently, ALG Attorneys got together to welcome the newest additions to the team- Uroosa and Shivangi in an interactive Ice-Breaker Session.
The Attorneys played a round of “Who Is Most Likely To” and discovered some interesting trivia about each other. This was followed by competitive rounds of “Guess the badly translated Hindi Song” and we must say ALG Attorneys are arguably better than Google Translate!
The Attorneys wound up the session with reminiscent anecdotes from the past, bidding adieu to the year that was. Raising a toast to ring in the new year, the Attorneys wished each other all good things to come in 2023.
