ALG Partner Ashwani Balayan will be attending the AIPPI World Congress in San Francisco from September 10-15. This year’s in-person Congress will see a high-level exchange of insights between experts from different countries on intellectual property issues such as trade secrets, unfair competition, patent linkages, moral rights, NFTs, Metaverse, filewrapper estoppels, etc.

A longstanding AIPPI member, Ashwani currently serves on the Patents Standing Committee and Pharma Standing Committee.

A ‘Legal Issues Seminar – General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Yash Raj, Trainee Associate, on “Whether Geospatial Data Can Be Accorded Copyright Protection?”. The seminar explored the relevant provisions under the Copyright Act, 1957 in conjunction with the divergent views taken by courts to determine whether geospatial data can be granted copyright protection. The session concluded with an interesting discussion on the applicability of fair dealing provisions to protected geospatial data and whether there is a need for sui-generis legislation to appropriately provide protection of geospatial data.

The presentation can be accessed here.

Recently, ALG Attorneys got together online to welcome the newest additions to the team- Yash Raj, Shubham Singh, Anurathna Mathivanan, Tarini Sharma and Sucharitha Banda in an interactive Ice-breaker session.

The Attorneys were teamed up and faced off in competitive rounds of taboo followed by some surprising and intriguing revelations about each other in rounds of “Guess Who”.

We are pleased to announce that ALG has been recognized in the Intellectual property Best Law Firm rankings for India in Leaders League 2022 edition. The firm has been ranked as ‘Highly Recommended’ for its Trademarks Litigation & prosecution practice. Our Managing Partner Sheja Ehtesham has also been individually recognized.

ALG recently secured a win for popular athletic footwear brand SAUCONY against an unauthorized domain name registration for . The dispute was filed before the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and an Arbitrator was appointed consequently. Finding each of the requirements under the domain name dispute policy to have successfully been established, the Arbitrator ordered that “…the Respondent shall cease to use the mark SAUCONY…” and granted the transfer of the domain name to Saucony Inc.