With news surfacing that Ravi Prakash is not giving TV9 logo’s copyright, the ousted CEO mentioned that Rameshwara Rao’s company should pay him a royalty for the logo as he owns it. However, it looks like there is a sort of confusion here and a quick verification on India’s Patent Search website regarding the true owner of this Intellectual Property (TV9 Logo here) has given interesting clarity.
While the TV9 Logo with the caption ‘For a better society’ is owned by A Prakash (let’s read this as Ravi Prakash), the same TV9 logo without the caption is owned by ABCL Ltd, the company that sold 90% of its share to Alanda Media owned by Jupalli Rameshwara Rao and partners.
Technically speaking, it looks like both the parties own a logo each and if the existing TV9 discontinues the caption, there will be no ‘legal’ issue it looks like.