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Wedding Bells or Warning Bells? PPL Refuses to Give an NOC to Play its Sound...
Recently, the issue of using sound recordings during wedding festivities popped up again before the Delhi High Court in Canvas Communications v. PPL. SpicyIP intern Reva Satish Makhija discusses the...
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A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s...
Do you enjoy your whiskey? Would you mix up these two labels: Officers choice and Peace Maker? (image below). Well, it appears the courts think most consumers would. Finding these competing labels to...
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A SARAL Analysis of the Proposed Trade Marks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024
Recently, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) published the proposed Trade Marks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024 inviting comments on the proposed rules by February 09....
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Orange Book & Inaccurate Patents: US Federal Trade Commission in Action
Image from here [This post is co-authored by SpicyIP Intern Pranav Aggarwal and Swaraj Paul Barooah. Pranav is a second-year student pursuing B.A.LL.B.(Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of...
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Comments on the Proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024
Image from here On January 10, 2023 the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) published the proposed Trade Marks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024. As discussed by Pragya Singh and...
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A Relook at Business Methods in light of Madras High Court’s Decision in...
Image accessed from here In Priya Randolph v. Deputy Controller, Madras High court rejected the contention that the subject invention was excluded for being business method. The findings of this short...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry clarifies...
In response to a series of unstarred questions regarding copyright infringement by generative AI, directed towards the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Union Minister of State for Commerce and...
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Universal Health Network v. Adiuvo Diagnostics Private Limited: Clarity on...
On January 3, the Madras High Court passed an important decision clarifying the position on the jurisdiction of a court in hearing writ petitions against the Indian Patent Office’s order. Assessing...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)
After an eventful week, here is our recap of its top IP developments. Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High...
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E&Y Report on The Rise of Music Publishing India: Reflections from an IPR...
Every year, a diverse community of over 40,000 music creators in India produces a remarkable 20,000 to 25,000 original songs! This sector contributes substantially to India’s revenue, accounting for...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Launches Open House Helpdesk Portal
Image from here In a welcome development, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) launched the Open House Helpdesk Portal on February 14, to “provide swift and...
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‘Non’-Pharmaceutical Substance and Efficacy under Sec 3(d)
Can Section 3(d) be applied to a non pharmaceutical invention? The MHC in Novozymes v. Asst. Controller of Patents and Designs made some interesting observations on this issue. Discussing the court’s...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 12- February 18)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts on the E&Y’s report on music publishing in India, MHC’s judgement clarifying the jurisdiction of a High Court...
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Legislative Oversight? Addressing the High Court Jurisdiction Vacuum...
Recently, the Delhi High Court referred 3 questions regarding the jurisdiction of a High Court to hear trademark rectification applications, to a larger bench. Discussing this controversy along with...
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Product-by-Process claim: DHC to the rescue
Image from here The Delhi High Court (DHC) judgement in Vifor (International) Ltd. v. MSN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.,explaining and allowing product-by-process claims as fundamentally concerned with the...
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SpicyIP Tibdit: Delhi High Court directs Oppo to make interim deposit in...
Image from here By judgment dated 21 February 2024, the Delhi High Court ordered Oppo to deposit an undisclosed sum as pro tem deposit (interim deposit) with the Registry . The Court imposed a cost of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 19- February 25)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts on the MHC’s interpretation of Section 3(d) in the Novozymes case, DHC’s referral of 3 questions concerning the...
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Arthrogen v. Controller Gen of Patents: The DHC’s Dilemma of Identifying the...
On 5th Feb, a Single Bench (SB) of the Delhi High Court (DHC) overturned a previous order by the Controller General of Patents that had classified the “method of producing ‘protein enriched blood...
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Announcing the Inaugural SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow!
SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow Malobika Sen Our readers would have noticed that since November 2023, we have been publishing hard hitting, incisive posts by our fantastic two new SpicyIP Student Fellows...
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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)
Image from here Welcome back to the “Sifting Through SpicyIP Pages” series! This time, I have journeyed through the pages “Januarys” on SpicyIP since 2005 and got you some stories that, I think, have...
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