Former Shark Tank India choose Ashneer Grover, identified for his mercurial manner on the present, is within the information after he trademarked his identify. The event was confirmed by Delhi Excessive Court docket lawyer Aditi Tuteja, who specialises in IP rights and logos.
Tuteja shared the replace with the certificates of the identical in a put up on LinkedIn. She mentioned that Grover’s identify was efficiently registered as an mental property underneath class 41 of the Commerce Marks Act 1999.
She talked about in her put up that the trademark “not solely strengthens their model identification but in addition expands their industrial attain past leisure.”
She additional famous that celeb logos are a fancy subject in India. Tuteja, nonetheless, added: “The logos Act,1999 doesn’t explicitly tackle them,however celebrities can leverage present legal guidelines and court docket rulings to guard their identify and picture.”
The Delhi Excessive Court docket lawyer additionally talked about that many celebrities akin to Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt, Kajol, Ajay Devgn and Amitabh Bachchan have efficiently trademarked their names.
Quickly after this announcement, netizens had been fast to take potshots at Grover. Some even questioned that does it imply every other particular person can’t use the identify Ashneer.
“It is best to have trademarked your dialogue ‘Ye sab doglapan hai’,” a consumer commented.
“Now Sony TV need to pay royalties for utilizing the identify of Ashneer sir and tagging him in YouTube movies for the views. Good step sir. Naam ke paise bhi milne chahiye,” a second consumer mentioned in jest.
“Yahi bakwas karte raho,” a 3rd consumer commented. “To all future Grover dad and mom, don’t identify your children as Ashneer anymore (sic),” a fourth consumer wrote.
“This sounds loopy. Does this imply that every other particular person on this earth by the identify ‘Ashneer Grover’ wouldn’t be capable to earn his livelihood in these said fields. If that is true, it’s certainly absurd,” one other consumer requested.
