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The Third to Tango: After Pakistan, Nepal Opposes India’s GI Application for...
Image from here In November, 2020, Varsha wrote a detailed piece on the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan on registration of GI over Basmati in the EU. Seemingly, after months of speculations...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 8 – 14)
Topical Highlight Image from here The Third to Tango: After Pakistan, Nepal Opposes India’s GI Application for Basmati In this post, Praharsh discusses the implications of Nepal joining Pakistan’s...
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UNH Franklin Pierce’s IP Summer Institute 2021 (May 24 – June 11, June 14 –...
We’re pleased to inform you that Franklin Pierce Center for IP of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) School of Law is offering an Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI) this summer in two...
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Protection of Jewellery: A Combination of Trademark, Design and Copyright...
Image from here In Part I, in the light of jurisprudence, I had analysed whether copyright or design law would be the appropriate IP for jewellery protection. Additionally, I had also discussed if...
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Sherlyn Chopra Case- Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images/Videos,...
Image from here Factual Background The Bombay High Court recently granted interim anticipatory bail to actor and content creator Sherlyn Chopra, who was charged by the Mumbai Police’s cyber cell for...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 15 – 21)
Topical Highlight Sherlyn Chopra Case- Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images/Videos, Obscenity Laws and Copyright Remedies Image from here In this post, non-consensual sharing of intimate images or...
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Call for Chapters: Inclusive Wealth Generation through IP Commercialization
Readers who have a paper in progress may be interested in this announcement – that the WBNUJS IP Chair is inviting papers for a book on the theme ‘Inclusive Wealth Generation through IP...
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Intellectual Property Rights in Covaxin – Part 1 (Waiver of IPRs)
Image from here This post was co-authored by Anik Bhaduri and myself. Anik is a fourth year student at NALSAR University of Law. A recent piece in the Economic Times argued that the Indian government...
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Hero Electric v. Lectro E-Mobility: Ambiguated Arbitrability of IP Disputes?
Image from here We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Lokesh Vyas on a recent Delhi High Court decision on arbitrability of IP disputes. Lokesh is a 5th year student at Institute of Law, Nirma...
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Copyright and Trademark Offences- Bailable or Not?: Bombay HC Also Weighs In
Image from here Recently, the Bombay High Court was faced with a controversial question of law while hearing an anticipatory bail application. The bail application was filed in response to a criminal...
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Delhi HC Looks Into Access And Innovation Questions On Rare Diseases
Lorenzo’s Oil, a fantastic 1992 movie on a child with a rare disease and the lengths his parents go to find a treatment for him – based on a true story. Through a series of directions issued in an...
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Some Musings on Supreme Court’s Judgement on Taxation of Software
Image from here A recent post on blog already carries an analysis of the latest Supreme Court judgement in the case of Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Private Limited v. The Commission of...
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Lego Succeeds at EU Level for the Simplest of Reasons
Image from here Earlier this week, the General Court of the European Union (part of the Court of Justice for the European Union or the ECJ) ruled in favour of Lego in Case T-515/19. The Board of the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 22 – 28)
Topical Highlight Delhi HC Looks Into Access And Innovation Questions On Rare Diseases Lorenzo’s Oil, a fantastic 1992 movie on a child with a rare disease and the lengths his parents go to find a...
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Why the Case of Hero Electric vs. Lectro E-Mobility Actually Demystifies the...
Pic by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0, from here. Last week we had a guest post by Lokesh Vyas that looked into the case of Hero Electrics v Lectro E-Mobility, wherein the order, holding the dispute to be...
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Intellectual Property Rights in Covaxin – Part 2 (IP Ownership in Publicly...
This post was coauthored by Swaraj Paul Barooah and myself. Image from here In part I of this post, Anik and I argued that the government should waive the IPR in Covaxin in order to ensure that the...
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Bombay HC Rejects Mandatory Copyright Registration: Is it time to Reconsider...
Image from here Earlier this month, the Bombay High Court ruled that registration of copyright is not mandatory for obtaining relief in an infringement action. Seemingly a statement of the obvious,...
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In Part I of this post, Anik and I argued that the government should waive the IPR in Covaxin in order to ensure that the vaccine can be rapidly accessed by the public. In Part II of this post, Swaraj...
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Copyright Law: A “Nifty” Dilemma
Image from here Techno-friendly readers may have noticed that there is a sudden surge of interest in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) across the internet and may have even purchased some for themselves. Some...
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) Sales and Copyright Assignment: Part 1 (The...
Image from here (Editor’s note: If readers are unfamiliar with what Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are and would like an explainer, you can refer to our earlier post by Awani Kelkar here. Adarsh’s posts go...
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