As we are seeing global trends where countries are coming up with data protection policies, Govt of India also set-up a committee headed by Justice BN Shrikrishna to come up with Personal Data Protection bill framework which government can implement. While the draft bill is on lines of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which was passed by the European Union ...

When will the GDPR come into effect? GDPR will come into effect from May 25, 2018 Who does GDPR apply to? GDPR applies globally and companies outside EU will have to comply with the Regulation if they process personal data of EU data subjects in connection with: “Offering of goods or services” (payment is not required); or “Monitoring” their behavior ...

Why Shareholders Have The Upper Hand ? Minority share-holders are those who have less than 50{06122e3a69f2011a565f88e0aeb17786618f68e9df77764f2353ddee6b5145e9} ownership of Equity Share Capital of a Company. These are small investors and do not have influence on decision making on functioning of company. Since only the majority share-holders have voting rights over the management and control of the company, the rights of the ...

Patent  are techno-legal instruments that give exclusive rights to manufacture, use, sell, or import a product or service to the patent applicant. Usually, patents are sought to create a monopoly of a specific invention in the name of the patent-holder. A request for patent, in most cases, is received from: Business Owner with an idea or product to patent   ...

Property Registration Agreement Property Registration Agreement (immovable) as defined in Section 2(6) of Registration Act, 1908 includes, “land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, Whenever a person acquires a property registration ...

IP Registration IP Registration Recent trends towards patents of big companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook are alarming. A news report revealed that Apple and Google invested $20 Billion in protecting their patent rights. This indeed shows the rising anxiety levels of Businesses when it comes to Intellectual Property. Let us try to understand why there is a need of ...

Startup India listing Startup Listing Norms On July 29, 2016 The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) released a discussion paper regarding changes to the startup listing norms. Startup India listing the regulatory framework for Institutional Trading Platform (ITP) was put in place vide amendments notified to SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009 (ICDR Regulations) on August 14, ...

Register Trust A trust is an agreement between group of individuals (called trustees) to manage property (movable or immovable including intellectual property rights) over which they have control either to benefit other individuals (called beneficiaries) or for charitable purposes. This group of trustees may be incorporated as a board under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 if the objects are charitable. ...

TradeMark Search Every business should always ensure that they get registered their brand with TradeMark Search authorities. Its understandable that Founders / Owners have limited bandwidth, resources to manage business and growth, however, registering a trademark is quite essential and non-registration of Trade Mark can cost a lot. Trademark is a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or ...

Entrepreneurs Start-up is becoming a buzz word and rightly so. Our honourable Prime Minister also made a mention Start-up India in his speech on Aug 15, 2015. Every month about 8000 company incorporation happens and almost ten times ideas being emerged, discussed and debated. Upon incorporating company entrepreneurs focus on building business, hiring employees, meeting customers, deciding marketing plans, putting ...