Intern – Saransh Saxena has commenced his General IP Internship with the firm’s law practice.

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

General IP Interns – Akshita Goyal (Final Year); Vedant Saxena, Shreeya Kotnis and Udayan Dwivedi (Pre-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) sessions. Their presence enriched the firm while they interned here. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.

During last week’s PWS Session, Tarini Sharma, Trainee Associate, led a discussion on the topic “Would allowing monopolization of single colours as trademarks encourage anti-competitiveness?”. The session saw an engaging discussion on providing IP protection to individual colours as trademarks and the impact of such protection on competition in the market. The discussion also explored whether monopolisation of single colours would lead to trademark saturation having adverse effects on competition in the market as well as the colour depletion doctrine. The session concluded with the members sharing their innovative recommendations to maintain a balance between granting protection to single colour marks and fair competition in the market.

At ALG, we believe that creating a safer workplace begins with open discourse for all the members of the firm to reach out and ask queries, share thoughts, raise concerns, and listen to each other. Recently, ALG’s Samreen Iboo Sait (Senior Associate, PoSH Trainer and Coordinator of the Diversity & Inclusion Section at ALG) conducted training on the Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. The two-day training session was attended by the Attorneys and the Administrative Staff of the firm. The training began with understanding what could be sexual harassment and the effect of our biases on such behavior. The session was a process of learning and unlearning through activities and games. The members also discussed the nuances of ALG’s gender-neutral harassment policy and shared their diverse thoughts, experiences and suggestions to make work places safer and more inclusive.

ALG’s Pranay Bali is recognised as a Rising Star as part of Managing IP’s IP STARS 2022 edition. This well-regarded edition lists leading up-and-coming intellectual property practitioners in private practice across the globe. We are pleased that Pranay’s contributions to our clients and the firm have been recognized.