Law Relating To Trade Marks Passing Off And Geographical Indication Of Goods

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Book Details

The book is veritable commentary on three integrated laws - Law of Trade Marks, Law of Geographical Indications of Goods and Common Law of Passing Off. It comprises 36 chapters.

Preliminary chapters are on historical development of trade mark laws, general concepts of mark and trade mark, goods and services, , domain name, brand and logo , and , generic branding;
Chapters on registrability, well known mark; comparison with copyright and patents laws ;
Chapters on registration, opposition to registration, registration of collection mark and certificate mark, effect of registration ;
Chapter on infringement;
Chapter on passing off action;
Chapters on injunctions and other remedies and groundless threat;
Chapter on assignment and transmission;
Chapter on use of trade mark and registered users
Chapter on rectification
Chapter on International Protection- Madrid Protocol;
Chapter on powers of Registrar
Chapter on appeals
Chapters on penalty, offences by companies, prosecution and cognizance of offence, quashing of prosecution, and protection of action in good faith
Chapters on concept of Geographical Indications of Goods, an overview of the Act, registrability, effect of registration of indications .

About the Author

D.P. Mittal

D. P. Mittal B.Sc., BA (Economics), L.L.B is an advocate, tax and business law consultant. He has a long experience in administering tax laws as an officer of Indian Revenue Service and in advising investors and entrepreneurs on legal, commercial and tax aspects of investment in India as an advocate now and previously as a senior adviser in the Indian Investment Centre, New Delhi (a Government of India Organization). He has authored widely acclaimed books - Principles of Constitutional and Administrative Law; Interpretation of Statutes, Wills and Deeds; Law Dictionary; Principles of Business and Commercial Laws; Competition Law; Law relating to Limited Liability Partnership; Administrative Law; Arbitration Law; Law of Trademarks, Passing Off and Geographical Indications; Law of Patents; Information Technology Law; Law of Benami Transactions; Law relating to Formation of Companies; Law relating to Company Meetings and Resolutions; Law relating to Corporate Financing; Law relating to Corporate Governance; Law relating to Investigation, SFIO and Fraud; Mergers and Acquisition; Indian Double Taxation Agreements and Tax laws in India; GAAR; Law of Transfer Pricing in India; Treatise on Direct Tax Code ; Law of Sick Industries; Offences and Prosecution ; and many more, besides more than two hundred research articles in various Journals and magazines.

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