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Welcome Clarification?: Police Commissionerate, Jaipur issues Circular on...
In this post our SpicyIP intern, Gaurangi Kapoor writes on the circular issued by Police Commissionarate, Jaipur on exempting the use of sound recordings during marriage ceremonies. Gaurangi completed...
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Kerala High Court on Publishing Judgments and Right to be Forgotten: Some...
Image from Ken Whytock, here While remembrance often occupies a higher pedestal in our social setting, forgetting has its own charm! There is a reason muscle memory is often linked to remembering when...
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Examining Oppositions: Time for a Deeper Look
As some readers may have noticed, there was recently a report published by Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur on patent oppositions. The report was also presented to DPIIT with suggestions on...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and...
The mRNA vaccine platform is a versatile vaccine technology that has the potential to treat several diseases. It has been heralded as a new age in medicine and several countries and companies all over...
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Future of mRNA and win-win for all: Why we need the government to disclose...
It is critical for the government to be forward-thinking. The Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, a government department, is reported to have provided INR 70 to 100 crores to Gennova...
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Rooh Afza v. Dil Afza Part II: Meaning Found in Trademark Protection
In January last year, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court in the case of Hamdard National Foundation (India) v. Sadar Laboratories Pvt. Limited had refused to grant an interim injunction...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 17- January 22)
After a week full of interesting IP developments and some very interesting orders (!), here are our summaries for our blog posts, 15 case summaries and other national and international IP developments....
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Supreme Court translates 1091 judgments into regional...
Image by Freepik Today India marks the 74th year since it adopted the Constitution and identified itself as a “Republic”! This day celebrates the ability of our nation, bogged by colonial setup, to...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi HC passes ex parte injunction in favour of Glenmark in...
Image from here The Delhi High Court passed an ex parte injunction in the matter of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals vs Sanjeevni Medicos And Or against the defendant and restrained them from manufacturing,...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 23- January 30)
[This weekly review has been co-authored with SpicyIP interns Gaurangi Kapoor and Ishant Jain.] January’s end is just around the corner and what an eventful start it has been to the year! In our...
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SpicyIP Tidbits: Delhi High Court Interprets the Term “Leaving with the...
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Ishant Jain. Ishant is a final-year student pursuing BA LLB at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He comes from Firozabad, UP, and is...
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Delhi High Court makes a U turn on Secondary Meaning and Acquired...
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Ishant Jain. Ishant is a final-year student pursuing BA LLB at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He comes from Firozabad, UP, and is...
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Book Release: ‘Archives, Ethics and the Law in India’ – A Guidebook for...
I am happy to announce the launch of ‘Archives, Ethics and the Law in India’, an open-access publication published by the Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. This...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 31- February 5)
In the first week of the new month, here are our summaries of the 3 blogposts, 7 court orders and other national and international IP developments. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on?...
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[Sponsored] UK IPO-INTA Brand Protection Strategies Conference, 2023...
We are pleased to announce that the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) and International Trademark Association (INTA) are jointly hosting a conference on brand protection strategies on February...
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Delhi High Court Imposes Costs worth INR 2 Cr. for Disobeying Interim Injunction
Delhi High Court came down heavily on Triveni Interchem Pvt. Ltd (Triveni) in a recent order (Pfizer v. Triveni) and imposed costs worth whopping 2 Crores on it for “wilful and contumacious...
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The Copyright Quandary regarding the Delhi High Court Rules on Live-streaming...
Delhi High Court recently came up with the ‘Live Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings Rules of the High Court of Delhi, 2022’. One of the ways whereby the court aims to curtail misuse of the...
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Fallouts from India’s First Website Blocking Order Passed Against Stream Ripping
[This post has been authored by our SpicyIP Intern Gaurangi Kapoor. Her previous posts can be accessed here, here and here. We are also thankful to our former SpicyIP Intern Ananya Dutta for her inputs...
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Honesty as a Defense vis-à-vis Trademark Infringements: Principle or Provision?
Image from Rick Harrison, here Our readers may be aware of Section 12 in the Trademark Act 1999 which allows the registration of identical or similar trademarks by more than one proprietor in case of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)
After another busy week here at SpicyIP, here are the quick summaries of the 5 blogposts that were put up, along with 15 case summaries and other national and international IP developments for you....
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