The patent application would be placed in order for grant once it is found to be meeting all patentability requirements. However, the same can be challenged by any third party on different grounds, and the same is caused to be done by filing a revocation petition/ post-grant opposition proceedings.
Why revocation application?
Rights granted on patent cannot be absolute. Third parties are also given chance to challenge the validity of the patents by asserting infringement of patent rights.
Who can file a revocation petition?
As per section 64 of the Patent Act, 1970, the following persons can file the petition in the High Court:
? Any person interested
? The Central Government
? The person making the counter- claim ....

The positive aspects of brands can be better understood and experienced by acknowledging the negative impact of brand restrictions. It includes restricting or eliminating trademarks and logos on packaging which can actually increase the dangers to consumers because of a greater threat of counterfeit goods and services or because of the increased likelihood of confusion which, in some fields, can lead to severe consequences and even fatality.

Protecting the dressing style or the artistic work is more important today considering the trend of packaging and use of artistic works to attract more consumers. Products can be differentiated on the basis of quality and packaging or the artistic work. Copyright helps to secure the tr....

No multiple entities can own a single brand under the same goods or services. Overthe period of time, proprietor firm gets converted to partnership, a partnership may get converted to a Private Limited and so on. Due to numerous reasons, the registered proprietors tend to ignore to comply with the change in ownership procedures and later on face the consequences.
The rule says, a registered trademark shall be assignable and transmissible, with or without goodwill of the business concerned and in respect of all the goods and services in respect of which the trademark is registered. The same is applicable for the unregistered trademark too. Where an assignment of a mark, whether registered or unregistered, the assignment sha....

A widely accepted and used name is generally considered as well known in regular parlance of term. Under the trademark context, it is believed that “well-known” trademark was legally defined for the first time in Paris Convention of Industrial Property. Examples of well-known trademarks includes “Starbucks”, “Addidas”and so on.
Well-known trademark, in the Indian context is elaborated as follows……
In relation to any goods or services, means a mark which has become so to the substantial segment of the public which uses such goods or receives such services that the use of such mark in relation to other goods or services would be likely to be taken as indicating a connection in the course of trade or rendering....

It is one of those grounds in which identical or similar marks by more than one proprietor and in relation to similar goods may be permitted registration by the Registrar.
The factors laid down as necessary conditions to be fulfilled in order to prove Honest Concurrent user defense:
The extent of use pertaining to the duration, quantity, area of the trade
The degree of confusion likely to result from the resemblance of the marks, which is to a great extent indicative of the measure of public inconvenience
The honesty of the concurrent use
Whether there exists factual proof of such instances of confusion having occurred
The relative inconvenience, which would be caused if the marks were registered, subject if any con....