The interplay between trademark infringement proceedings and non-use cancellation proceedings under Sections 47 and 124 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 raises a deceptively simple question: can a Section 47 proceeding trigger a stay of an infringement suit? With the
The Calcutta High Court has granted three weeks’ interim bail to Congress’ Nandigram by-poll candidate Milan Pradhan, till October 21, observing that he was arrested only after filing his nomination papers and that the cases against him arose from the
Ishani Datta Ray & Anr. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors., WPA 24272 of 2026
The Calcutta High Court, in an order passed by Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on 24.09.2026, has restrained the Police from taking coercive steps against
The Calcutta High Court has granted interim protection from coercive action to Anandabazar Patrika editor Ishani Datta Ray and journalist Soma Mukherjee in connection with an FIR arising from the newspaper’s use of the expression “Gerua Gundami” (saffron hooliganism) in
Kicking off September with an exciting week featuring posts on the latest guidelines by the Patent Office on the use of AI in patent examination, copyright strikes, the Calcutta High Court order in IPRS v. Hotel Appolo, the Copyright Office’s
You switch on the TV in a hotel room, and you have entered into a licensing quagmire! Does a hotel need to pay royalties to copyright societies for the content in the television sets of their guest rooms? The recent
A question hovered over my
head as I worked on Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of
Crime in Colonial South Asia: how should I use detective fiction as a
source? There was a rich and
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