The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), has notified the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) (Amendment) Rules, 2025 by way of a Gazette notification. The amended Rules have come into force with effect from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. […]

By way of an ongoing proceeding before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court, ANI Media recently filed a copyright infringement claim against OpenAI, seeking to restrain OpenAI from using copyrighted materials to train its AI models. The primary issues to be decided by the Delhi HC are: (1) Whether the storage of ANI’s data for training […]

On November 24, 2025, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court declared the 3-dimensional shape of the ‘Birkin’ bag as well as the trade mark ‘HERMES’ as well-known trade marks under Section 11(6) read with Section 2(1) (zg) of the Act. In this matter, a suit was filed by Hermes for trade mark infringement and passing off, […]

On November 21, 2025, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) passed an acceptance order towards a smell mark application bearing no. 5860303. As per the said Order, the trade mark applied for is “an Olfactory smell trademark for tyres that smell of Roses” and is a “complex mixture of volatile organic […]

A new and thirteenth edition of the Nice Classification, i.e., (NCL 13-2026) has been published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which will be applicable w.e.f. January 1, 2026. Some notable changes include: The NCL 13-2026 can be accessed at: nclpub.wipo.int/enfr/.    The new NCL 13-2026 effective from January 1, 2026 will apply to […]