Ex-parte interim injunction awarded in Vringo Infrastructure Inc and Anr v....
Facts The plaintiffs, in the present suit, sought permanent injunction against the defendants restraining them from infringing the right of the plaintiffs in their registered patent No. IN 243980...
View ArticleGuest Post: Overview & Comparison – Amendments in the Indian Patents Act
Nishidh Patel, a final year student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur who recently brought us two guest posts on counterfeits and India, now brings us a great infogram detailing the differences between the...
View ArticleGuest Post: WIPO Green – A new hope for green technology innovators
We’re happy to announce the first entry for our 2nd SpicyIP Fellowship! Radhika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad brings us a timely post on a new initiative by WIPO...
View ArticleNitto Denko Corp v. Union of India: Backlog and shortage of staff at the IPO?
A civil writ petition was filed by Nitto Denko Corporation, questioning the delay in the issuance of FER and seeking directions regarding timeline of issuance of first examination report (FER) and...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Sing along with the Samajwadi Party! “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
“Man se hai Mulayam, Aur Irade Loha hai, Irade Loha hai, Man se hai Mulayam” [Sing it to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”!] After a series of long and interesting posts, we have for...
View ArticleMD of Universal Music Publishing slams the radio industry – calls them...
The music and radio industries have never been the best of buddies anywhere in the world, especially in India. In a fiery piece published on the online news portal – Radio & Music – Achille Forler,...
View ArticleWorking papers on the damage to the Patents Act, 1970 and the state of...
Over the course of the last year at Stanford, I got to study patent law under two of the leading patent law academics in the U.S. – Prof. Robert Merges & Prof. Mark Lemley, followed by a short...
View ArticleGuest Post: Copyrightability of characters
We are happy to bring our readers Devika Agarwal’s first post in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Devika is a 4th year student at RML National Law University, Lucknow and brings us...
View ArticleDepartment of Pharmaceuticals replaces Committee for Patented Drug Price...
It has been almost seven years since the Government of India, under the aegis of the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), had established a committee tasked with framing a mechanism that would serve...
View ArticleGuest Post: Iskcon sues Iscon for trademark infringement
Radhika Agarwal brings us her second submission in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. You can view her first post here. Iskcon sues Iscon for trademark infringement The International...
View ArticleTHE INN PROPOSAL: BOON OR BANE?
The Indian Patent Office is presently considering a proposal that would make it mandatory for drug firms to disclose the WHO-assigned INN (International Non-proprietary names) in the pharma patent...
View ArticleGuest Post: IPAB dismisses challenge to Kibow’s product patent
Spadika Jayaraj, a 3rd year student from NLSIU, Bangalore brings us a crisp update on the Kibow litigation. Prashant had earlier mentioned the oddity of selective reporting that was happening around it...
View ArticleGuest post: Copyright in Photographs vis-a-vis Social Networking Sites
We are happy to present Devika Agarwal’s second post in the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. You can view her previous post on copyrightability of characters here. [Edit: Incidentally,...
View ArticleWeekly Review (4th Week of November)
We started this week with my post on the ruling of the United States District Court of New York that the Google Books Library Project was permissible fair use. Under the Google Books Library project,...
View ArticleFive new Central Information Commissioners appointed
Transparency has been a consistent area of focus for this blog and to this end, we’ve certainly tried to make much use of the RTI mechanism. As Shamnad has previously noted, “From 2007 when we first...
View ArticleSearching for FRAND in FRAND valuations – Part 1/3
The year 2013 has been a watershed year for standard essential patent (“SEP”) owners and related fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) valuations. This year has seen a consensus build...
View ArticleCERN undertakes largest ever Open Access Initiative
Come January 2014, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), through its SCOAP3 project will make a significant portion of scientific literature in the particle physics field available for...
View ArticleThe challenge by Bhojpuri musicians to the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012
In the last few months we have covered several petitions challenging the constitutionality of the different provisions of the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012. The previous posts covered the challenges...
View ArticleConsilience 2013-2014 at NLSIU, Bangalore
Early last month, Shouvik blogged the call for papers of Consilience, 2013-2014 organized by the Law and Technology Committee of NLSIU, Bangalore. Please read below for the details of the conference...
View ArticleBreaking News: IRRO Registration Refused!
In a momentous development, the Government of India refused to re-register IRRO, a collecting society formed for the purpose of licensing books and other literary works. An official at the Ministry of...
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