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Claim Amendments u/s 59(1): Confusingly Evolving Landscape in India- Part I
Recently, Delhi High Court in Allergan Inc. v. the Controller of Patents set aside the order of the Indian Patent Office, and allowed certain claim amendments u/s 59(1). In this 2 part guest post, Amit...
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Claim Amendments u/s 59(1): Confusingly Evolving Landscape in India- Part II
In Part I of this 2-part post, Amit Tailor discussed the key aspects of the Delhi High Court’s order in Allergan Inc. v. the Controller of Patents. In continuation to that discussion, he analyzes the...
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Interplay Between Sections 124, 47 and 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999: The...
Recently, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting order in Anubhav Jain v. Satish Kumar Jain, holding that the rights u/s 57 of the Trademarks Act to seek rectification of the register, is...
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Sci-Hub and Public Libraries: Legal Deposit under The Delivery of Books and...
Image by Daryl Cagle, accessed from here. The on-going Sci-hub/libgen litigation, which initially drew a lot of hullabaloo, has been going on for a bit over 2 years now, with little to no movement on...
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What if? Discussing the Elsevier Ltd. And Ors v Alexandra Elbakyan and Ors in...
In an earlier post, Swaraj highlighted that despite the Sci-hub case going on for the past 2 years (see here, here, here, here and here for previous posts on this), there has hardly been any...
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Numeral Marks, Passing off, Trademark Infringement – Delhi High Court’s...
Image from here Imagine a world where all numbers from 0 to 9 and their infinite permutations and combinations can be trademarked. In this unreal realm, Pinku, the owner of “89” can injunct Minku for...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Madras High Court Directs the State Government to Issue a...
Image from here. In a recent writ petition filed by M/s.Galatea Limited regarding its pending case before IPAB, Chennai to be heard before the Madras High Court (MHC), the court directed the State...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 13- February 19)
Last week on the blog we featured posts with nuanced discussions on burning issues surrounding patents, trademarks, and copyright. Here are the quick summaries of the 7 blog posts, along with 12 case...
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Needs No Fixing if it’s Not Broken: Delhi High Court Refused to Import...
Image by J D Frazer , accessed from here. Recently, Ishant wrote on the Delhi High Court’s broad interpretation of the term “leaving with the registrar” under the Trademark Rules and the timeline of...
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Battle of the Firms – The Irony of IP Law Firms Being Sued for Trademark...
Have you ever wondered who protects the IP rights of IP lawyers? What happens when an IP firm is sued for infringing IP rights of other law firms? SpicyIP Intern Niyati Prabhu discusses a few such...
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Informal innovation: The re-emergence of ‘informal’ washing machines
Image from here A topic close to this blog’s heart – informal innovation, recently made headlines. The Prime Minister of the UK awarded Navjot Sawhney with the Points of Light Award for his...
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Spill the Tee M: Toyota v TechSquare
[This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Hiranya Bhandarkar. Hiranya is a fourth-year law student at the School of Law, Bennett University. She has been the Co-Convenor of the Legal Aid...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 20 – February 26)
[The weekly review is co-authored by SpicyIP Interns Hiranya Bhandarkar, Niyati Prabhu, Amisha Mittal and Tanvi Agarwal.] As February comes to an end, another month goes by with some interesting IP...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 27-March 4)
[The weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Tanvi Agarwal] Here are the quick summaries of the 7 cases and other IP developments. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on? Especially from...
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Call for Papers: NUALS Intellectual Property Law Review (Vol. V) [Submit by...
We’re pleased to inform you that the National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi (NUALS) Intellectual Property Law Review is inviting contributions to the fifth volume of the journal. The...
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Microsoft v. Asst. Controller of Patents and Designs: Revisting the CRI...
The issue of Computer Related Inventions (CRI) in India has popped up again, with Delhi High Court presently hearing an appeal against an order of the Patent Office rejecting an application filed by...
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Winzo v Google- Missed Opportunity to Detail out Disparagement
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Tanvi Agarwal. Her previous post can be accessed here. Tanvi is a second-year student pursuing BA LLB at the National University of Juridical Sciences....
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ChatGPT and the Underlying Copyright Malady
ChatGPT, a chatbot, and its outputs have been in the limelight for quite some time, with discussions surrounding the chatbot’s overall impact on the future. Through an examination of ChatGPT’s ‘Terms...
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Learning from India’s Disastrous Experience in Protecting Itself against...
In light of the upcoming WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge, Prashant Reddy brings us a post highlighting India’s sub-par experience with its own Biological...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 6- March 11)
Here are the quick summaries of 5 posts, 4 case summaries and other IP developments that took place last week. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on? Especially from other High Courts? Please...
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