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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 3 – February 9)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the Lodha trademark dispute, the scrapping of the UGC-Care list, and the escalation of the Nayanthara-Dhanush...
View ArticleANI vs OpenAI: India’s copyright act is outdated. Can it deal with new legal...
Last month, a group of digital news publishers in India sought to join a case filed by news agency ANI in the Delhi High Court accusing the US firm OpenAI of misusing material to which they own the...
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Blowing Hot and Cold: DHC’s Observations on Commercialisation when Raising...
[A big thanks to Swaraj and Praharsh for their inputs]On February 4, 2024, the Delhi High Court, in Incyte Holdings Corporation & Ors. v. Granules India Limited (pdf), recorded a settlement in a...
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New Age Office? CGPDTM To Move from Mumbai to Delhi
Image from hereAfter a furor on social media platforms, the Commerce Minister has clarified that the seat of the CGPDTM is being shifted from Mumbai to New Delhi. After the move, the Mumbai office will...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 10 – February 16)
[Thanks to Aditi, Khushi and Sudhanshu for the case summaries]Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the ANI vs OpenAI copyright case, CGPDTM’s office...
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Cheroots to Cheers or Bringing IP Conversations to Wider Audiences: A SpicyIP...
Discussions over intellectual property rights are not just restricted to our textbooks but spill over to the kind of music we listen to,the medicines we intake and much much more. However, it cannot be...
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From Headnotes to Head-scratchers: The Functional Fallacies in Thomson...
[This post is authored by Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain. Akshat Agrawal is a Senior Associate at Saikrishna and Associates and has previously written on the blog here. Sneha is a Partner at Saikrishna...
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Error 303! Error 404! Exclusive Rights Not Found – DHC Vacates Injunction in...
Image by storyset on Freepik[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can...
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Extension of the Deadline for CIPRA’s (SLS, Hyderabad) 1st Blog Writing...
With several requests for extensions coming in, the deadline for the 1st Blog Writing Competition, 2025 Organized by CIPRA (SLS Hyderabad) in Collaboration with SpicyIP has now been extended. The new...
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After ANI, Bollywood Music Labels Have a Face-off with OpenAI
On the news of the Indian Music Industry and music labels seeking to be impleaded as parties in the ongoing ANI v. OpenAI case, Anjali Tripathi writes on the issues raised by the trade body and labels...
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