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Revised Non-Personal Data Governance Framework and Intellectual Property...
Image from here In Part I of this post, I highlighted the possible copyright and trade secret protection over the data mandated to be shared under the Revised Non-Personal Data (NPD) Governance...
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Breaking: Supreme Court Dismisses Application Seeking Extension of Justice...
Hitting the (seemingly) final nail and ending the trail of extension requests, the Supreme Court via its order yesterday (12/02/2021 (pdf) ) dismissed the application seeking another extension to the...
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Breaking: Finance Minister Proposes a Draft Bill in Lok Sabha to Shut Down IPAB
image from here Just hours ago we broke the story about the Supreme Court judgement (pdf) dismissing the application seeking extension of the incumbent IPAB Chairperson and now we are in knowledge of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 8-14)
Topical Highlight Breaking: Supreme Court Dismisses Application Seeking Extension of Justice Manmohan Singh as IPAB Chairperson Praharsh informed our readers that this week the Supreme Court dismissed...
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The Amended Form 27 and Uncertainty in Timelines for Filing
We have received a lead from one of our readers on an issue regarding the filing of working statements (Form 27) as per the amendments made to Patent Rules, 2003 in October last year. The Patent Rules,...
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The Grand Old Indian Trade Marks Register: Episode 1 (1877-1881)
We’re pleased to bring to you a three-part guest post by our former blogger Aparajita Lath, tracing the birth and early life of the Indian Trade Marks Register. Part I of the post can be viewed below...
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The Grand Old Indian Trade Marks Register: Episode 2 (1881-1920s)
In Part I of this three-part guest post tracing the birth and early life of the Indian Trade Marks Register, Aparajita discussed the first phase of legislative activity. In Part II (below) and Part...
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The Grand Old Indian Trademarks Register: Episode 3 (1920-1940)
In Part I of this three-part guest post tracing the birth and early life of the Indian Trade Marks Register, Aparajita discussed the first phase of legislative activity. In Part II (here) and Part III...
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Justice Manmohan Singh Holds Hearings in the IPAB despite the Supreme Court...
Heard it through the grapevine and saw in the causelist that Retd. Justice Manmohan Singh is still holding hearings in the IPAB and passing orders. Just a couple of days ago we reported that the...
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Justice Prabha Sridevan on Govt’s Proposal to Shut Down IPAB and the Way Forward
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Justice (Retd.) Prabha Sridevan on the recent Bill moved by the Government in the Parliament proposing to shut down IPAB and the way forward. Justice...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 15 – 21)
Topical Highlight Justice Prabha Sridevan on Govt’s Proposal to Shut Down IPAB and the Way Forward In this guest post, Justice (Retd.) Prabha Sridevan notes that the Government’s proposal to scrap the...
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A Draft “Open” IP Syllabus
Despite the plethora of materials online, any student, researcher or professor would know that access to scholarly information is a lot more difficult than what it should be. Most of the time, if...
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DCGI Draws Ire of Delhi High Court for Violating the RTI Act
The Single Bench of the Delhi High Court headed by Justice Pratibha Singh, in its recent order in Prashant Reddy v DCGI, came down heavily on the drug regulator for egregious violation of the Right to...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 22 – 28)
Thematic Highlight A Draft “Open” IP Syllabus In this post, Swaraj shared the first draft version of an ‘Open’ IP Syllabus that he along with a small team of researchers has worked on in the last few...
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Intellectual Property Appellate/Advisory/Adjudicatory Board?
We are pleased to bring our readers another guest post by Amit Tailor, discussing a recent practice he has observed of the IPAB/Board ‘suggesting’ amendments to patent applicants, and allowing them...
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BigBasket and Daily Basket Row – Confusion or Bullying?
As widely reported in the media, and shared via social media posts, the legal team of BigBasket sent a ‘cease and desist letter’ to Daily Basket on 17th February, 2021 alleging infringement of their...
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Of Geospatial Data Deregulation, Intellectual Property and Personal Data...
Image from here On 15th February, the Department of Science and Technology released a new set of guidelines liberalising India’s Mapping and Geospatial Data regime by removing the existing...
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Protection of Jewellery: A Combination of Trademark, Design and Copyright...
Image from here The issue of IP protection of jewellery has hardly been discussed or adjudicated upon in India. Generally, it is understood that the sketch of the jewellery design can be protected as...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 1-7)
Topical Highlight BigBasket and Daily Basket Row – Confusion or Bullying? Logos of the companies Anupriya analysed the widely reported ‘cease and desist letter’ sent by BigBasket to Daily Basket...
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Supreme Court Recognises Doctrine of Copyright Exhaustion in Softwares, And...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Vedangini Bisht and Shubham Chaudhary on a recent Supreme Court order wherein the Doctrine of Copyright Exhaustion was recognised vis-a-vis...
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