Legal questions on Intellectual Property

Copyright suit and jurisdiction

We are an Indian firm and have developed a CMS application to manage websites. Application runs on UK servers. We are having clients from all over the world and their websites are hosted on the same UK server. We have received a civil suit summon for copyright infringement of CMS software by a United States District Court for the Central District of New York. Plaintiff's software firm is cla...

Chit Fraud

Sir I have came to know that my brothers and their workmates have invested along with 10 to 15 people in a chit fund created by a person but that person after 8 months stop giving response towards people who invested telling lie about his loss in other chits so he cant pay ous amount now giving some emotional lecture. when all people unitedly pressurize then he ran away and after few months he ...

NGO organization quries

Hello sir/mam i am to represent an organization ,so quries based on those are there so can you please help us? 1)to register in an NGO can major students be the council members to govern that functioning 2)is that we must have accounts maintained by auditor only or any of our members or a studunt doing or have done b.com/m.phil 3)is it necessary that it must be working always? 4)can w...

I got trapped by a girl, I lost everything

Im into fashion designing, wherein I ws financially loss same day met with a girl, she treated me as a sister and she console to stay without pay till the problem solve, use to exchange things like costumes and accessories without jealous, one day there was an emergency at home town need to go...still Im nt going as im financially down here, she forced me as a sister to go to my home town to so...

Import sex toy from aliexpress.com

Hi i purchased 1 sex toy from aliexpress.com online e commerce site price $11.81 (around 730/- indian rupees) . i didnt received goods it is struck indian customs , chennai . I donot have knowledge before purchase this product they send me show cause notice they quoted product price high 2000/- . i donot know how react please advice me here i mentioned some points in that notice . how to react ...

Database Theft (IT ACT)

I am database provider in Delhi, India, I purchased customer database ie. Name, address and contact number of different companies/banks etc. from various Database Providers in Mumbai and paid for that. The same data I sell to further to the call centers in Delhi for business promotional activity. 2-3 call centers has done some 1.20 lacs fraud with one of bank customers and bank has lodge a comp...

Where case can be filed in case of Real Estate cheating

Hi, SmartCity Builder company is registered in Delhi (but given the wrong address). They have no office in Delhi. But they have branch office in Patudi (Haryana) and cheating done on project launched in Tijara, Alwar (Rajasthan). The allotment letter which they had given shows both the address i.e. Patudi (Gurgaon, Haryana) and Alwar (Rajasthan). The two out of three Directors are living ...

praveen from bangalore

Hi all I just need one clarification . My dad bought a sight 10+years ago in bangalore at Hoodi circle and after so many years we have decided to construct. All of a sudden some people asked us to stop the work as our site was road hitting and they want it for road for back side empty lands and they said like they will purchase our land and asked for one copy of our site documents. We have p...

Harrasment, exploitation

In 2005, I had applied for the post of Catering Supervisor advertised scale ([deleted]) in a prestigious school of New Delhi. The school follows central Govt. rules. But the existing catering supervisor did not want me to settle down, as I was highly qualified and suitably experienced, the existing catering supervisor was scared of me, out of jealousy he instructed the personnel officer to chan...

builder charged wrong interest for the period before agreement

1 -booked a flat with 10% on 6 may 2010. 2 -builder delayed agreement signing because its papers and layout was not sanctioned. But dont have any prof for it . only verbal communication. 3 - signed an agreement with builder on 7 sep 2010. 4 - In agreement it was written first demand 10% on booking and second demand 10% on 30 day after booking.I protested verbally but builder said that It i...

Motor Vehicle (Private Car)Registration FOR ADDRESS CHANGE

My son stays at hyderabad .he has purchased a honda jazz in august,2010 now he has been transferred to kolkata and as such he wants to bring his honda jazz car (year of registration is 23/08/2010) to kolkata .in the form 22 supplied by honda for initial certificate of compliance with pollution, standards, safty standards of components and road worthiness the certificate shows bharat stage iii c...

Image copyright infrintement on ecommerce platforms

I have two questions to ask: Q No. 1). I am an online seller on amazon and Flipkart eCommerce platforms. As per amazon's selling policies, if someone has listed a product, no other seller is allowed to copy the bullet points, product titles, and product image. A few days ago some sellers copied a few parts of product bullet points and a few parts of product titles from originally created listin...

Forced to buy license for corel software because of unlicensed copy.

We are a startup digital marketing agency in UP, and invested our lifetime savings to start the firm. I recently got a call from a corel (software) reseller from Delhi that my organization is using unlicensed version of their software. Someone in my family might have unknowingly installed an unlicensed version from an online source in my personal laptop an year ago. This could be for experim...

Intellectual and Copyright Case

Hello, I have downloaded a landing page from the internet to start a website for a product, when i uploaded the landing page the images were missing or not loading on the website. I didn't check the website later, then few days later when i checked the website i found some other landing page which is different from what i have seen in the demo content. That landing page contained some copyri...

Refund

I have submitted the application for trademark for company online. While coming to the payment procedure i entered the details of STATE BANK OF INDIA' s debit card and i waited the amount of Rs 9000/- to get deducted but in the payment status it was still showing pending and the display instructed me to wait for a hour to initiate the payment. I waited for a hour but the pending payment was not...

Payment dispute among the inventors

A  service for patent was requested to  a law firm by three inventors. Dr Rajesh, Dr Nehru, Suresh.  Suresh being the student of Dr Rajesh and Dr Nehru. The invoice was generated in the name of Dr Rajesh,  Dr Rajesh paid the money to the law firm at various stages during the patenting process.  After 16 years patent got granted. Now some Payment is due. Dr Rajesh and Dr Nehru both are pressuriz...

The title of the property lies in the name of two different person

Firstly, till date there is a lot of issue being going on with regard to the property we purchased in the year 2004. My own aunt got us a property for a consideration and when we took EC in 2011 we found that the property was a GPA site and that the property was under litigation and the property lies in the name of my mother as well as some unknown Stanger . It says the unknown stranger got the...

Father name is incorrect in all of my marksheet

Father name in my all degree certificates are incorrect My father name is "sanjay ". He is from haryana. My birth is in Baroda and i was leave with my uncle and grandmother till Diploma. And after Diploma i was moved to Ahmedabad and leave with my family (Father-Mother). So by mistake my father name was incorrect in my Birth Certificate as "sanjeev". After some years when i was in Diploma, the...

What are my chances of going to jail & Loosing this Copyright Infringement Case?

I recently received a cease & desist notice from my previous employer asking me to shut down my eCommerce website as it looks similar to his & I accidentally used 2-3 of the Images he clicked himself & claims as copyrighted Images. I started this similar website when I was working for the employer but he found out & fired me for competition. We did not sign any non-compete or NDA whatsoever ...

Pent house -terrace encroachment

Hello sir, I bought a flat in a 12 flat building in 2014. There was no pent house at the time when I bought. Later it was built by builder and sold. The pent house owner initially grilled and locked the entrance of terrace stating its his private place and anyone has work with water tank, dish tv needs to take permission from him to enter the tearrace. Now he has started building sheds and en...