Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat

Telcos gaining on ignorance of ord. subscribers

2011-04-09T01:49:00.000-07:00

Last week, I received a service message from Airtel asking me whether I am interested in watching sizzling hot videos? following the link i found out that it is a website from Canada in obviously with a tieup which is offering mobile content. vuclip.com is a website providing mobile content and is based in Canada as their website says. I confronted the Customer Service center with this and the guy on the other side asked me to just turn off the option of receiving service messages.

I still have a few questions remaining.

So how does Airtel share this revenue with vuclip.com?

Since it is a company from Canada as their website says, Is AIRTEL paying this Canadian content comapny or is AIRTEL keeping all this loot for themselves?

Airtel themselves are making these websites to fool their customers?

Rs 20 was deducted from my website for 2 weeks before I took up this issue with their customer care. Think about the millions of illiterate customers who never cares for the scores of SMSs and are ignorant about the deductions.

Dear Sunil Mittal,

You are a leech sucking the blood of millions of poor hapless Indian consumers.

HC asks Bisleri to stop using Maaza trade mark in India

2009-11-28T22:02:00.000-08:00

HC asks Bisleri to stop using Maaza trade mark in India

Posted: Tuesday , Oct 20, 2009 at 1820 hrs

The Delhi High Court asked Bisleri International not to sell its mango-flavoured soft drink under the trade name 'Maaza' in India.

Giving its verdict over a petition filed by beverage makers Coca-Cola, Justice Manmohan Singh directed Bisleri not to use Maaza trade mark in India.

Bisleri (formerly Golden Agro) had sold the Maaza trade mark to Coca Cola for use in Indian market but had reserved the right for overseas markets.

However, Coca Cola had alleged that Bisleri had continued to use the trade mark in Indian markets through dummy firms.

Both the companies have been fighting a legal battle over the international rights of Maaza brand for several years, with Bisleri accusing Coca-Cola of registering the 'Maaza' trademark outside India.

Chauhan had accused Coca-Cola of "stealing" the IPR of Maaza and infringing an agreement dating back to 1993 and 1994 signed between the Coca-Cola Company (CCC) and Aqua Minerals, now Bisleri.

Significant Decisions of the Information Commission.

2009-10-24T22:54:00.000-07:00

A Deemed University is a Public Authority and covered under the RTI Act.
Income-tax returns of political parties filed with public authorities and assessment orders accessible to the citizens.
Complete text of the 'question paper', provided by the university to examinees, along with standard answer key adopted by the university is accessible.
An examinee has the right to access the evaluated answer sheets so as to make self assessment of her/his performance.
The Supreme Court of India is an institution created by the Constitution and is, therefore, a Public Authority within the meaning of S 2(h) RTI Act. The status and position of the Chief Justice of India is unique under the RTI Act. The Chief Justice of India is also designated as 'Competent Authority' u/s. 2(e) of the Right to Information Act.
The Commission disapproves of the practice of PIOs using the exemptions of S.8(1) without providing reasoning. The Commission is likely to view such practice as a denial of information without reasonable cause and take action.
All co-operative societies registered under the Gujarat State Co-operative Societies Act, 1961 are bodies controlled falling within the ambit of the definition 'public authority' given at 2(h) (d) (i) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 and, therefore, are public authorities.

(Decision of the Gujarat Information Commission, the same view is taken by the HC of Kerala)

All the aided and unaided schools perform governmental functions to promote high quality of relevant education. The Government access to information asked for. And, so has a citizen.

Copyright and Trademark Violation

2009-08-26T09:24:00.000-07:00

Ian Fleming's Legendary character James Bond is used

for publicity and Business by a drycleaner in the

Silicon Valleyof India - Bangalore.

Contrary to the Bond Vehicles that featured in Bond films including

the Aston Martins and the BMWs', the Bangalore Drycleaner uses a

Tata Ace Pick Up for his business named after EON Productions money

spinner - James Bond.