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The Backlog Challenge Faced by the Indian Trademark Office: Addressing...
Image from here Readers may remember the recent guest post that highlighted the Trademark Registry’s notices deeming 98000 and 82000 trademark applications as abandoned. These notices were challenged...
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Why Moral Rights are Dead Serious: Preserving the Posthumous Moral Right of...
Image from here [This guest post has been authored by Karishma Karthik. Karishma is an associate at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai. She can be reached at karishma0604@gmail.com for any feedback...
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Why Moral Rights are Dead Serious: Preserving the Posthumous Moral Right of...
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. See here for how Van Gogh’s legacy was built and preserved by the efforts of his sister-in-law Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger. Image from here. [This guest post has been...
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Workshop on ‘Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents in the Developing World’...
We are pleased to announce that Third World Network (TWN) and Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi are jointly organizing a five-day...
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Music to Many Ears! Bombay High Court Passes a Landmark Order Recognizing the...
Image from here [Long post ahead] In a momentous development, the Bombay High Court made a bunch of important interpretations concerning the rights of the authors of underlying literary and musical...
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All’s Fine with Pine Labs as Karnataka HC Vacates the Problematic Interim...
Image from here [This post is co-authored by SpicyIP interns Rohan Srivastava and Srujan Sangai. Rohan and Srujan are Second Year students at the National Law School Of India University and have a...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 1 – May 6)
[This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Srujan Sangai. Srujan is a Second Year student at the National Law School Of India University, Bengaluru and has a keen interest in IPR and...
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Delhi High Court Sets Aside 3 Orders from the Patent Office and the Trademark...
Image from here On April 28, 2023, Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court passed three separate orders, all dealing with a similar issue- unclear, unreasoned orders from the Patent Office and the...
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Agreement on Royalty Sharing Signed between ISRA and Music Labels!
Image from here [This post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Surmayi Khatana. Surmayi is a second year student pursuing LL.B from Government Law College, Mumbai.] On April 25, 2023, it was reported...
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World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of...
Image from here In a landmark order regarding right to publicity, the Single Judge Bench held in the case of Digital Collectibles vs Galactus Funware Technology Pvt Ltd that the use of publicly...
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Announcing the SpicyIP Empirical Scholarship Database Series!
Prof Shamnad Basheer Moving from Faith-based positions to Fact-based positions has been a topic that Prof Shamnad Basheer had long been propounding on this blog, with several prominent examples such...
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Inviting Applications for the SpicyIP Doctoral Fellowship!
On attributes of a researcher, Prof. Basheer said here “As a researcher, you need to keep asking yourself why? You cannot take anything for granted. So you must be curious about everything in the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 8- May 13)
[This Weekly Review has been co-authored with Shikhar Chauhan. Shikhar is a second-year law student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He shares a keen interest in developments concerning IP...
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Understanding the International Guide to Patent Case Management for Judges by...
Image from here [This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Devanshu Agrawal. Devanshu is a second-year student pursuing B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.] A...
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Special 301 Report 2023: Reflections from Public Health Perspective
Image from the Report The US Trade Representative (USTR) released the Special 301 Report for 2023 on April 26, 2023, and has placed India in the ‘Priority Watch List’, yet again. The Special 301...
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DHC’s IPD Annual Report a Positive Step for Transparency – Here’s How It...
Image from here To mark the occasion of World IP Day on 26th April 2023, the Delhi High Court’s IP Division (IPD) released its annual report for 2022-23, detailing the progress made by it in the past...
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SCOTUS Sundae: Large Scoops of Weekend IP Reading!
Prompt to OpenArt: “Pop art of the Supreme Court of USA“ This Sunday, I bring to you a few judgments from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) which at first glance, may not have a direct...
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Monday Trademark Musings
Image from here We are having a lot of trademark disputes these days (keep a check on our weekly reviews.); with every other day seeming to bring new issues to look at. In the last two weeks, I...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 15- May 20)
[This Weekly Review has been co-authored with Surmayi Khatana. Surmayi is a second year student pursuing LL.B from Government Law College, Mumbai. Her previous post can be accessed here.] Here are the...
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“Scam 1992” Dynamic Injunction Order: Another Drop in the Bucket of Broad...
Image from here [This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Shikhar Chauhan. Shikhar is a second-year law student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He shares a keen interest in developments...
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