With the advent of digital communication, images, text, videos and creative works are easy to steal with the few clicks of a button. Illegally downloading or reusing such works...
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) had notified the Companies (Mediation and Conciliation) Rules, 2016, as an amendment to the Company Rules, 2013. This was done to authorize a...
GST or Goods and Service Tax is a bill recently introduced in parliament that will take effect in April 2017. This was passed in the Constitution (One Hundred and...
A Sole Proprietorship is often the preferred choice of organisation for small businesses. A proprietorship is easy to start and operate. It is also not mandatory to register a...
Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Stamp Duty is necessary to be paid for the stamp/stamps on any instrument that records transactions. Stamp Duty serves as evidence or proof of transaction...
For any company set up in India, the entity must adhere to certain legal and tax compliances. With Government initiatives such as Startup India, Digital India and Skill India...
Different countries have separate laws to determine whether an online business needs to be registered with the government of that nation. When an online business needs to be registered...
A trademark is a visual representation used on a product which helps customers to identify the manufacturer. It may be in the form of a word, symbol, device, name,...
An agreement is a legally binding arrangement between two or more parties. Several agreements are used throughout the process of funding between an investor that wants to fund a...
What Is A ‘Registered Office’? To understand the intricacies of changing the registered address of a company, it is imperative to understand the meaning and significance of a ‘registered...
A trademark is an Intellectual Property in the form of visual representations depicted on products/services. Such depictions such as symbols, words, colour, packaging, labelling, shape and combinations of them...
Trademarks are unique visual representations that help customers distinguish a product of a manufacturer compared to another. The easiest way to protect the rights to use a particular trademark...
Trademarks are graphical representations added to a product/service in order to represent its legitimate owners. A trademark may be expressed as a word, a logo, a label used on...
Uniqueness is what defines a trademark. A trademark needs to be a one-of-its-kind graphical representation depicted on a product. It can be in the form of a picture, word,...
Trade dress means the visual features of a product that may include shape, size, colour (or colour combinations), graphic designs and packaging. It includes the overall appearance of a product....
Registering a trademark helps a business get exclusive rights to use the mark on their goods/services. It enables the business to sue other manufacturers/service providers who misuse similar marks...
Passing off is a civil offence which infringes the rights of another individual or business entity. In trademarks, it means the act of representing one’s goods as the ones...
SaaS is Software as a Service. It is a key part of cloud computing. Other aspects of cloud computing are desktop as a service, infrastructure as a service, mobile...
The rise of online businesses and entrepreneurial ventures have been at an all-time high over the last few years in India. Ideas have been introduced in the online market,...
A day comes when every entrepreneur dreams of starting their own business, but there are several complexities and legal issues that one needs to tackle while starting a company....
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