Intellectual Property
under Indian law.

Two of the three IP questions in a normal Indian commercial matter are answered by the contract, not the statute. Who owns work product created by an employee or a contractor is settled by the IP-assignment clause; what the customer may do with the vendor's platform, feedback and deliverables is settled by the IP-ownership and licence clauses. LexVio's benchmarking corpus carries market-standard IP-ownership positions for SaaS subscription agreements and for employment agreements, and the free employment agreement and founders' agreement templates both include IP assignment.

The third question — is this mark registrable, and is that use an infringement — is statutory. Section 11 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 sets the relative grounds for refusal: a mark cannot be registered where it is identical or similar to an earlier trade mark and the goods or services are identical or similar. Section 29 defines infringement as use, in the course of trade, of a mark identical or deceptively similar to a registered trade mark. For copyright, Article 88 of the Limitation Act, 1963 gives three years to sue for compensation for infringement.

What this hub does not have. This is one of the thinner hubs on the site, and deliberately so. LexVio's seeded statute library contains exactly one IP statute — the Trade Marks Act, 1999. The Patents Act, 1970, the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Designs Act, 2000 are not in it, so no section of theirs is cited here. What LexVio does carry for IP is contractual: benchmarked IP-ownership clauses for SaaS and employment agreements, an IP-heavy NDA template, and IP assignment inside the free employment and founders' agreements.

The provisions, with their section numbers.

Each row names the dataset it was taken from — the seeded statute library, the compliance calendar's own statutory reference, the bare Limitation Act, or the DPDP research set. Nothing here was written from memory.

Tools that apply to this work.

Each runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and none of them needs an account.

Limitation periods that bite here.

Quoted from the India Code bare Act. The period is only half the answer — the third column of the Schedule, the point from which time begins to run, is what actually decides the date. Each entry sets both out.

Free templates for this area.

Free to copy, modify and use commercially, without attribution. They are starting points, not advice — have a qualified advocate or company secretary review anything before you sign it.

The capabilities that do this work.

Every one of these is a real feature page with its own status — Live, Beta or Soon. If it says Beta, it is in beta.

The modules this area draws on.

The people who do intellectual property work.

Intellectual Property — the questions people actually ask.