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.

A ‘Legal Issues Seminar- General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Yash Raj, Associate, on “Whether Valuation of a Commercial IP Suit for the purposes of Court Fee can be Different from the ‘Specified Value’?” The seminar explored the relevant provisions under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 and analysed its conflict with the Suits Valuation Act, 1887 and Court-fees Act, 1870. The session delved into the case laws that have discussed the valuation of IP suits, and the varied interpretation that has been provided by various Courts. The seminar involved an interesting discussion on the judicial interpretation of ‘specified value’ of a suit and ‘valuation for purposes of court fee’ and the emerging jurisprudence in determining the jurisdiction of an IP suit. The session concluded with a discussion on the various practical implications of the current judicial trend in determining the value of an IP suit.

The presentation can be accessed here.

Interns – Nabira Farman, Akshita Goyal, Vaidehi Gupta, Sonal Kumari, Soumya Dendukuri, Manish Kumar, Garima Chauhan, Alankrita Sinha and Dewang Shrivastava 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!

Patent Intern – Aishwarya Mukherjee (Pre- Final Year Intern) has successfully completed her Internship at ALG. At the end of her internship, she obliged us with her thoughts and ideas during the Sharing of Reflections (SoR) session. Her presence enriched the firm while she interned here. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours.