Trademark Assignment in India: How to Transfer a Trademark Properly TL;DR: A trademark assignment in India transfers ownership from one party (the assignor) to another (the assignee), and to be valid it needs three things: a written assignment deed, stamping under the relevant state stamp law, and recordal with the Trade Marks Registry on Form […]
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TL;DR: A registered trademark in India lasts ten years and can be renewed indefinitely in further ten-year terms under Section 25 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, by filing Form TM-R. You can file the renewal up to a year before expiry, and there is a six-month grace period after expiry (with a surcharge). Miss […]
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TL;DR: Filing your trademark application is the start of the job, not the end of it. After you file, three things can still go wrong: the examiner can raise an objection, a third party can oppose your mark, and years later someone can apply to remove it for non-use. The single best protection against all […]
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Trademark Opposition in Argentina: What to Do If Someone Objects TL;DR: Opposition is a mechanism for raising a conflict with an trademark during the application process in Argentina. INPI no longer examines applications for conflicts with similar earlier marks, and the informal “observations” route was abolished for applications filed from March 2026. A third party […]
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TL;DR: A standard trademark registration in Argentina generally costs USD 400 to USD 800 for a single-class application, including government and professional fees. Since INPI’s official fees are linked to the monthly updated UMAPI tariff system, the exact amount changes each month. Since Resolution 75/2026, INPI’s official fees are calculated in a new tariff unit […]
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TL;DR: Trademarks in Argentina are registered with INPI (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial) under Trademark Law No. 22,362, in a first-to-file system where registration, not use, creates the right. The process runs from clearance search through filing, examination, a one-day publication, and a 30-day opposition window, to registration for a renewable ten-year term. The […]
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TL;DR: A Statement of Work (SOW) is the document that defines the specific work to be done, the deliverables, timeline, and price, for a particular project or engagement. It usually sits underneath a Master Service Agreement (MSA), which sets the overarching legal terms that apply across every project. The MSA handles the “how we work […]
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TL;DR: A contract lawyer’s cost depends far more on how they bill and how complex your contract is than on the document’s title. Hourly rates for business and contract lawyers commonly run from around $150 to $500+ an hour in major markets, but the more predictable route is fixed-fee pricing, where a straightforward contract can […]
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TL;DR: A cap table shows who owns your company today. A fully diluted cap table shows who could own it tomorrow, once every option, warrant, SAFE, and convertible note that can turn into shares actually does. Most founders track the first and are blindsided by the second. Understanding fully diluted ownership, and the “shadow cap […]
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TL;DR: AI vendor contracts are not just software contracts with a new label. They quietly take rights that ordinary SaaS agreements do not: the right to train the vendor’s model on your data, ownership or control of the outputs you generate, and broad protection for the vendor when the AI gets something wrong. The two […]