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Beckoning the State: An Analysis of Open TV Inc vs. Controller of Patents and...
Image by macrovector on Freepik [This guest post is authored by Pragya Singh and Lakshita Handa. Pragya is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi and Lakshita is a...
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Year 1958 and Government’s “Nadir-shahi Firman” Over Copyright Infringement!
Image from here. While glancing through some initial Indian copyright cases after independence, I chanced upon a quirky 1958 case from Allahabad High Court and thought of sharing it with our readers....
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 19 – June 25)
Last week saw some really interesting discussions on the blog. Swaraj announced the new initiative to discuss the history of IP law on the blog and kickstarted this with informative posts from Shivam...
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Proving ‘Bonafide’ Marriages: Del HC’s ‘Sanskari’ Interpretation of Section...
Image from here [This guest post is authored by Anjali Baskar. Anjali is a fourth-year student pursuing B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from School of Law, Christ University, Bengaluru. She is keenly interested...
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DHC IPD Roster Revision: Benches of Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice C....
Image from here Delhi High Court’s Intellectual Property Division sees the return of Justice Prathiba M. Singh to the roster who will now take charge of the division, along with Justice C. Hari...
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Over the Last Decade India has Spent Rs. 1,00,000 crores on Scientific...
Image by photoroyalty on Freepik We are extremely pleased to bring to our readers a guest post by Prashant Reddy T. and Saranya Ravindran on the lack of transparency on public funded R&D in India....
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Re-Assignment of Copyright – Conflicting Claims on the Interpretation of...
Image from here On June 5, 2023, the Bombay High Court, in a joint order passed in Super Cassettes v. RBEP and Hungama Digital Media v. RBEP clarified that the termination of an agreement because of...
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‘Win-Win Situation’: Compulsory Licensing Royalties Decided by Madras High Court
Image by memetsaputra on Freepik [This guest post is authored by Devangini Rai. Devangini is a graduate of the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,...
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The Tussle with NCERT: A Copyright Angle
Image by pch.vector on Freepik [This guest post is authored by Pranav Aggarwal. Pranav is a second-year student pursuing B.A.LL.B.(Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He has a...
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‘Where thou documents?’ asks BHC, denying interim injunction to Shemaroo
Image from here In a copyright dispute involving two giants of the media industry, Shemaroo sued Super Cassettes (SCIPL), in Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd vs Super Cassettes Industries Pvt Ltd and Ors,...
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Results for Patent and Trademark Agent Exams Are Out!!!
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks released the results for the 2023 Patent and Trademark Agent examinations. Of 1496 candidates who...
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Sifting Through the Pages: SpicyIP in the Junes
Image from here. SpicyIP, in its over 17 years of existence, has discussed a substantial part of Indian IP’s modern evolution. From Prof. Basheer’s first SpicyIP post in October 2005, ‘from the...
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K’taka HC Refuses To Quash FIR Against Rahul Gandhi And Others
Image from here People following Indian politics would know about the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” (Yatra). While the Yatra seems to have ended, its (presumingly) unforeseen aftermath still continues to haunt...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 26-July 2)
Last week was pretty action-packed here on the blog. We featured 8 posts discussing important IP developments like the Bombay High Court’s important clarification on the re-assignment of copyright,...
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Karnataka HC Rules Against Twitter’s Plea for Restricting the Scope of Online...
In its judgement of June 30, 2023, in X Corp v Union of India, the Karnataka High Court ruled against Twitter in its plea to quash the Government of India’s orders issued under Section 69A of the...
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CGPDTM to Recruit 553 Patent and Designs Examiners via QCI
Image by Freepik Starting the day with some good news, the office of Controller General of Patent Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) has issued a notification for recruiting 553 Patent and Designs...
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How India Learnt to Stop Complaining and Love Copyright
Image generated used Dall E [This post is a part of the IP History series and is authored by Shivam Kaushik. Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is presently working as a...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 3- July 9)
Last week, we had some interesting discussions on the blog and saw some important IP development across the courts. We featured a total of 5 posts discussing 2 significant orders from the Karnataka...
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EPO Decisions – The Not So Holy Grail?
Image from here Issues related to patent quality are pressing and worrying, even a standard measure of monitoring patent quality has been difficult. Of late, even in the EU, there has been an...
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Who’s Filing These Patents, and Are They Working Alright? Looking at the Data...
Image from here [This post is co-authored with Swaraj Paul Barooah and Anshuman Kar. Anshuman, a SpicyIP intern, is a third year law student at National Law University, Odisha.] As per the data in the...
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