SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Calls for Comments and Suggestions on New Draft Pharma...
In the time of this oncoming monsoon, it feels like its raining draft guidelines from the Controller General’s office! The office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM)...
View ArticleOnto Clearing the Jurisdictional Clutter
Introduction “With the internet, the question of ‘territorial’ jurisdiction gets complicated largely on account of the fact that the internet is borderless.” A sentiment raised by Justice Muralidhar...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (31 August- 6 September)
Kicking off September with an exciting week featuring posts on the latest guidelines by the Patent Office on the use of AI in patent examination, copyright strikes, the Calcutta High Court order in...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit- Paper Trail in IPRS v Hotel Appolo: Missing Caveat and the...
IPRS logo from here Last week, I wrote a post on a licensing quagmire covering the recent dispute between IPRS and Hotel Appolo & Tours Private Limited, which dealt with an important question of...
View ArticleWell-Known Marks: To Declare or Not to Declare?
Image from here. Ordinarily, trademark protection is strongest in relation to the identical or similar goods or services for which a mark is registered. Some marks, however, acquire such a strong...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: All Eyes on Kerala HC’s Final Hearing in the Ribociclib...
image from here [This post is authored by Rishabh Upadhyay. Rishabh is an LL.M. candidate at the Faculty of Law, Delhi University, having completed his undergraduate legal studies at the Faculty of...
View Article[Part I] The Road Not Taken (Down): Delhi HC Starts Sorting the Personality...
The Delhi High Court has been seeing what can be termed an almost unending spate of personality rights filings, but there’s now a fork in the road that recent orders over the past month are...
View Article[Part II] The Road Not Taken (Down): Delhi HC Starts Sorting the Personality...
In the first part of this three-part post, Aakanksha discussed the standard, overbroad prayers in almost every personality rights suit, and the August 2026 orders that have begun to dismantle them. In...
View Article[Part III] The Road Not Taken (Down): Delhi HC Starts Sorting the Personality...
Continuing the discussion on an almost unending spate of personality rights filings (first part and second part), in the third part of the post, Aakanksha turns to fandom, fan merchandise, and fan...
View ArticleGeneral Comment on the IPO’s Draft Pharmaceutical Guidelines (2026)
A few days ago, we had informed our readers that they could participate in the open call for comments and suggestions on the Draft Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications in the Field of...
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