Franchising represents one of the most sophisticated and widespread applications of trademark licensing in modern business, serving as a powerful mechanism for brand expansion while embedding strict quality controls that go far beyond traditional licensing arrangements. At its core, franchising…
Trademarks to Tyranny: Discussing the Balance between Dominance and Protection Capitalism as a system of economics and means of trade has been pervasive across all nations of the world. Emerging in the 17th century with the demise of Mercantilism, economic…
ABSTRACT Enforcement of an Effective Cartel can yield a tangible reduction in prices as well as an increase in the welfare of consumers in the market. There is a consensus that cartels are the only field of competition where they…
Introduction The human mind is a marvel with an astonishing potential to transform ideas into practice and commercialize them in order to accrue benefits. This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary…
Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world. For example, Patent…
With a growing buzz around how IP and Competition law interface with each other, instances when they can be coupled by Defendants to raise concerns/defense arguments, as to how and when investigations can be initiated through the Competition Commission of…
An intellectual property right holder is granted legal rights to protect his intellectual property- here is where competition law plays a huge role by ensuring that such power and monopoly is restricted in the market. Both intellectual property rights and…