We are pleased to announce that International Trademark Association (INTA) has appointed six ALG Attorneys to serve on various INTA Committees for the upcoming 2022 – 2023 term. 

Through service on INTA committees, ALG continues its longstanding tradition of working with INTA and its global staff towards assessing and addressing a wide range of issues related to intellectual property, trademarks and designs. 

ALG’s Sheja Ehtesham and Ashwani Balayan are attending the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) virtual Annual Meeting from September 28 – September 30. If you would like to set up a virtual meeting, please reach out to Sheja Ehtesham at sheja.ehtesham@algindia.com or Ashwani Balayan at ashwani.balayan@algindia.com.

ALG’s Dishti Titus participated in INTA’s Brand Resilience Conference, which was held virtually from September 22-23. The conference focused on risks faced by brands, navigating missteps, misdeeds or mishaps, and the future of brands. Notably, the conference sessions included discussions on cancel culture as well as NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens).

In addition to the educational sessions, the conference included speed networking, a workshop and team trivia followed by a reception. The speed networking session featured ice breaking questions and routine reshuffling of tables to facilitate conversations and maximize the number of connections between participants. In the workshop, attendees were split into teams and called upon to provide legal advice and policy recommendations on the basis of a common hypothetical issue. The team trivia competition put the attendees in small groups and tested their knowledge on the conference panels.

We thank the entire team at INTA in organizing this seamless, interactive and insightful conference.

ALG’s Dishti Titus was invited to speak at a podcast on ‘Non Fungible Tokens & its congruence with Intellectual Property Rights: The Era of Blockchain and its Intersection with Intellectual Property Rights’.

The podcast aired on September 19 on the channel ‘In Conversation With IPR & Competition Law’ and is available here and here.

A ‘Legal Issues Seminar-General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Shilpa Margaret Kurian, Trainee Associate, on ‘Whether Search Engines as Autonomous Databases can be held liable for IP Infringement?’. The seminar explored the concepts of databases, autonomous databases, and search engines. To understand the position of search engines as databases in India, reliance was placed on judicial precedents, in addition to the relevant legal provisions under the Copyright Act, 1957. The session concluded with some interesting questions and discussion among the team members regarding jurisdictional issues and what may be the liability of search engines when enforcing the right to be forgotten.

The presentation can be accessed here.