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Harpic v. Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use?
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Pragya Jain. Pragya is a 5th year B.A. L.L.B.(Hons.) student at Amity University (School of Law), Kolkata. Her previous guest post on the blog can be...
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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR – a Regressive View
This post continues the discussion on Copyright Reform suggested by the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR, which Adyasha had discussed on the blog here. In a recent opinion piece in The...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law!
A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, on May 14th, 2021 we announced the 2nd...
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Topical Highlight Sun Pharma v. Cipla: Madras HC Rejects COVID as an Excuse for Passing Off In this guest post, Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar analyses the recent case of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd....
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The End of the IPAB and Lessons on Concentration of Judicial Powers
We’re pleased to bring to you this guest post by our former and one of the most prolific bloggers, Prashant Reddy. The End of the IPAB and Lessons on Concentration of Judicial Powers Prashant Reddy An...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 30 – September 5)
The End of the IPAB and Lessons on Concentration of Judicial Powers An image saying ‘Every end is a New Beginning’ (image from here) Prashant wrote about how the now scrapped IPAB has always been in...
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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Traditional Knowledge: Idealistic...
Image from here. Image showing trees and plants labelled as patented. Continuing our series of posts on the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Review of the IPR Regime in India, in this post I...
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High-Level Dialogue—TRIPS Waiver: Challenges & Opportunities? [September 13]
We are pleased to inform you that a high-level dialogue to discuss the challenges and opportunities concerning the TRIPS Waiver with intellectual property experts, a nobel laureate, a member of the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 6 – 12)
SpicyIP Weekly Review Image Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Traditional Knowledge: Idealistic Expectations or Unworkable Ideas? Continuing our series of posts on the Parliamentary Standing...
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Division Bench Stays the Interim Injunction Granted to Kibow Biotech, calls...
image from here The present post discusses another instance of interim injunctions imposed by our courts on the basis of problematic rationale. Sometime back, I reported on an interim injunction order...
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Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL)...
We’re happy to inform you that NALSAR Hyderabad’s Indian Journal of Indian Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is inviting papers for publication in Volume 12 of the journal. The deadline for submission...
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NUALS Kochi’s Webinar Series on ‘Evolving Facets of IPR’ [September 23]
We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), NUALS is organising a webinar series on ‘Evolving Facets of IPR’ on September 23, 2021. For further details,...
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Tracing the Contours of Copyrightability of ‘Unique Sports Celebrations’
We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar, analysing the copyrightability of unique sports celebrations. Kedar is a fourth year BLS LLB student at the Adv. Balasaheb Apte...
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Webinar on ‘Trade Secret and Access to Medicine’ by CUSAT and TWN [September22]
We’re pleased to inform you that the DPIIT IPR Chair of the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Third World Network are jointly organizing...
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Division Bench Stays the Interim Injunction Granted to Kibow Biotech, calls Methodology of the Single Judge Bench for Establishing Prima Facie case “Flawed” In this post, Praharsh discusses a Madras...
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ASĀVA v. RAMPUR ASAWA: Bombay HC Sets the Record Straight on Deceptive...
Logo of Meher Distilleries (Image from here) A few months back, a Single Judge bench of the Bombay High Court delivered what has now been revealed to be a very problematic decision on deceptive...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 20- 26)
ASĀVA v. RAMPUR ASAWA: Bombay HC Sets the Record Straight on Deceptive Similarity Logo of Meher Distilleries (Image from here) In this post, Adyasha analyses a recent trademark infringement dispute...
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JDCIL-ESYA Article Writing Competition [Submit by September 30]
We’re pleased to inform you that the Jindal Digest for Competition and Innovation Laws, in collaboration with Esya Centre, is organizing an article writing Competition, with an aim to encourage...
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Zolgensma and the Inadequacies of the Compulsory Licensing Regime
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Akhil Satheesh. Akhil is a final year B.A.L.L.B.(Hons.) student from NUALS, Kochi. Zolgensma and the Inadequacies of the Compulsory Licensing Regime Akhil...
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Webinar on Digital Sequence Information (DSI): Implications on Access &...
We’re pleased to inform you that the DPIIT IPR Chair of Inter University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) is organizing a four...
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