A Response to the Alternate Interpretation on Permissibility of Sub-licensing under Indian Trademark Law
Last week, Kapil had written a guest post giving an alternate interpretation to the arguments in my post on the impermissibility of sub-licensing arrangements under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (‘the TM Act’). The main counter points by Kapil against my argument that the TM Act does not permit sub-licensing, as I understand, are listed below: The TM Act does not explicitly restrict the provision of sub-licensing clauses in an agreement between a proprietor and a user. Section 2(1)(r)(i) read …