A Note on M/S. Jagdamba Impex v. M/S. Tristar Products Pvt. Ltd
Background The Delhi HC, in M/S. Jagdamba Impex (“Appellant” who is the original defendant) v. M/S. Tristar Products Pvt. Ltd (“Respondent” who is the original plaintiff) (FAO No. 128/2014 & CM...
View ArticleKarim’s Mughlai Cuisine- A spicy trademark dispute
The case of MD IFTEKHAR v. M/s KARIM HOTELS Pvt Ltd. was an appeal to the Delhi High Court decided early this month.This case essentially deals with the issue of the ownership of trademarks The...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Reviews (12th to 18th May & 19th to 25th May)
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! We, at SpicyIP, were quite happy to see IPKat’s appreciation for our work on the blog here. (Though, we would like to mention again that as much as we’d like to have...
View ArticleTekla Corporation v. Survo Ghosh: An Attempt at Introducing the “Misuse of...
On 16th May, 2014, in the case Tekla Corporation v. Survo Ghosh, Justice Endlaw of the Delhi High Court held that “copyright misuse” does not constitute a legitimate defense for copyright infringement...
View ArticleMadras HC: Prosthetics patent and design infringement case
The following post discusses a patent and design infringement case (M.C. Jayasingh Vs. Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI) rep. by its Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals) decided by the Madras High...
View ArticleGuest Post: Google, ARA and Open Source Licensing
Kartik Chawla brings us an extremely interesting post on the new ‘free and open hardware platform’ for modular smart phones that Google is developing. In this post he focuses on MDK’s IP licensing...
View ArticleHeritage Trademark: The Race Over Rice
Only talk doesn’t cook the rice! Rice, a source of a number of culinary delights, especially in India, is now the fodder for a legal battle. A trademark dispute over the use of the mark ‘Heritage’ with...
View ArticleTaking down websites hosting infringing content
Last week, popular torrent tracking website torrentz[dot]eu was in news after the UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) got the domain name suspended. Surely, to the disappointment of the...
View ArticleWockhardt v Remed Healthcare: Trademarks and Medicines
There have been many recent trademark cases (e.g. Merck Kgaa & Anr vs Abhinav and Ashok Trading, 2014- where Carbophar was held to be deceptively similar to the trademark Carbophage and a permanent...
View ArticleAnchor Health and Beauty Care Pvt Ltd. v. P&G Manufacturing Co Ltd- a...
Last month, the High Court of Delhi decided a trademark dispute between Anchor Health and Beauty Care Pvt Ltd and Proctor and Gamble Manufacturing Co Ltd. The plaintiff (Anchor Health) had a registered...
View ArticleBreaking News: SC streamlines patent revocation procedures in Enercon litigation
Yesterday, the Supreme Court rendered a significant decision in the Enercon patent litigation. The court addressed the issue of multiplicity of proceedings in patent cases with regard to opposition,...
View ArticleThe dispute between Anchor Health & Beauty Care and Proctor & Gamble...
Yesterday, I had published a post about the Single Judge’s decision of 9 May, 2014 with respect to the trademark dispute between Anchor and Proctor & Gamble. One of the major issues involved...
View ArticleEuropean patent office to include Indian patents in their search database.
An invention can be the subject of a number of patent applications worldwide, in a variety of languages. Patent equivalents are a list of similar patent documents; with the same priority dates from...
View ArticleCSIR-URDIP announces admission for PG Diploma in Patinformatics(Patent...
CSIR-URDIP has been working in the field of Patinformatics for more than a decade. Patinformatics is fast emerging as a science of analyzing patent information which supports decision making in...
View ArticleA Belated Weekly Review (May 26th to June 1st, 2014)
We started the week with Spadika’s post on Teklo Corporation v. Survo Ghosh, a case of the Delhi High Court in which Justice Endlaw ruled that misuse of copyright is not a defence to infringement. The...
View ArticleDistributed infringement issues under US patent law decided – lessons for India?
It seems that patent law decisions by the Supremes are the flavour for the month of June. Our Supremes issued the decision in the Enercon matter and Aparajitha had posted about it here. The US...
View ArticleSpicyIP TidBit: 6-month Research Internship Opportunity at South Centre, Geneva
South Centre is an intergovernmental organization which brings together developing countries to combine their efforts and expertise in promoting their common interests in the international arena. The...
View ArticleGuest Post: Book Review of Bugging Cancer – Daring to dream
Our very own Prashant brings for our readers a succinct and insightful review of a new book, ‘Bugging Cancer’, penned by the noted scientist Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, who, as Prashant introduces...
View ArticleIt’s Payback Time- Punitive Damages Awarded in a Trademark/Copyright...
On 26th May, 2014, the Delhi High Court, awarded punitive damages amounting to Rs. 2 Lakh in an ex parte order against the absconding defendant Simon Food Processors for infringement of trademark and...
View ArticleWebinar on ‘How to Avoid Worthless Patents and Develop a Strong Patent...
We’re happy to bring our readers news of a free webinar on ‘How to Avoid Worthless Patents and Develop a Strong Patent Portfolio?’ hosted by ipMetrix Consulting Group. Please see their invite below:...
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