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<link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/</link>
<description>VIDIKSHA teaches the practice of intellectual property law in India: drafting objection replies, filing patents, answering examination reports and negotiating licences. Self-paced courses, live training sessions and a practical blog.</description>
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  <title>How to respond to a Section 9 trademark objection</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/how-to-respond-to-a-section-9-trademark-objection/</link>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Trademark</category>
  <description>A working reply structure for the three absolute-grounds objections, and the evidence that actually moves the examiner.</description>
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  <title>Reading a patent examination report line by line</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/reading-a-patent-examination-report-line-by-line/</link>
  <guid>https://vidiksha.in/blog/reading-a-patent-examination-report-line-by-line/</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Patent</category>
  <description>The First Examination Report has a structure. Learn it once and you will never again spend a day working out what the examiner actually wants.</description>
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  <title>The Section 11 objection: when the cited mark is nothing like yours</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/the-section-11-objection-when-the-cited-mark-is-nothing-like-yours/</link>
  <guid>https://vidiksha.in/blog/the-section-11-objection-when-the-cited-mark-is-nothing-like-yours/</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Trademark</category>
  <description>Relative-grounds objections are won on comparison, not adjectives. Here is how to compare marks, goods and trade channels the way the Registry does.</description>
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  <title>Drafting a trademark licence that survives a quality-control challenge</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/drafting-a-trademark-licence-that-survives-a-quality-control-challenge/</link>
  <guid>https://vidiksha.in/blog/drafting-a-trademark-licence-that-survives-a-quality-control-challenge/</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Licensing</category>
  <description>A trademark licence without real quality control can cost the licensor the mark. The clause that prevents it is four paragraphs long. Here they are.</description>
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  <title>Copyright registration in India: the discrepancy letter nobody warns you about</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/copyright-registration-the-discrepancy-letter-nobody-warns-you-about/</link>
  <guid>https://vidiksha.in/blog/copyright-registration-the-discrepancy-letter-nobody-warns-you-about/</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Copyright</category>
  <description>Form XIV is easy to file and easy to file wrong. The five discrepancies the Copyright Office raises most, and how to answer each in a page.</description>
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  <title>Design or trademark? Choosing protection for a product shape</title>
  <link>https://vidiksha.in/blog/design-or-trademark-choosing-protection-for-product-shape/</link>
  <guid>https://vidiksha.in/blog/design-or-trademark-choosing-protection-for-product-shape/</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Design</category>
  <description>A product shape can be a registered design, a shape mark, or neither. The order you file in decides what you end up with. A decision method for the first meeting.</description>
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