How To Protect Your Online Content Legally?
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...
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Companies (Mediation and Conciliation) Rules, 2016
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...
How To Register For GST In India?
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...
How To Convert A Sole Proprietorship Into A Partnership?
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...
Agreements That Mandate Payment Of Stamp Duty
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...
Compliances Required For Software Companies In India
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...
How To Register An Online Business With Government?
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...
Transborder Reputation Of Trademarks In India
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,...
Legal Agreements Involved In The Funding Process
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...
Changing The Registered Office Of A Company
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...
Licensing And Permitted Use Of Trademarks
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...
Rights Of The Prior User Of A Trademark In India
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...
Registering A Trademark In India
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...
Differences Between Infringement And Passing Off Of A Trademark
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 Protection In India
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....
Infringement Of A Trademark In India
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 Of A Trademark
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 Businesses In India: A Legal Perspective
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...
How To Start Online Business In India?
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,...
10 Legal Things That You Need To Check Before Starting Your Business
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....
