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Navigating Denied Filings: Trademark Justice at the Crossroads of the...
[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health with...
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PAC Chairperson Demands Probe by Chief Vigilance Commission Into Corruption...
Image from here “Out of the frying pan, into the fire” seems to sum up the current predicament of the Office of the Controller General of Patent, Designs and Trade Mark (CGPDTM). Only a few weeks...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 26- March 3)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 6 posts including a post on the PAC Chairperson’s demand for a probe by CVC into the allegations of corruption against...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: The Competition Act v. The Patent Act: Catch 22
The Supreme Court last week issued notice on a special leave petition filed by the Competition Commission of India(CCI) against the Delhi High Court’s decision in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson...
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A Case of Reverse Passing Off: DHC Rules In Favour Of Western Digital On...
On 26 February 2024, the Delhi High Court (DHC) in Western Digital Technologies Inc & Anr vs Geonix International Private Limited, granted an ex-parte ad interim injunction to the plaintiff on the...
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Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in...
Image from here “The judge is not a rustic who has chosen to play a game of Three Card Trick. He is not fair game. Nor is the truth.” quote from here In a significant order on February 23, 2024, the...
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Imputing Bad Faith in Trademark Infringement Disputes: Analysing DHC Nova v....
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts including a post discussing the concept of hot tubbing, a post on the DHC interim injunction order restraining...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Book on Patent Law by DHC Justice Prathiba M Singh Launched
Having started back in 2015, Delhi High Court judge Justice Prathiba M. Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been published by Thomson Reuters in two volumes and was launched on 9th March...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Supreme Court Grants Booking.com Permission to Use...
Image from here [This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta. Aarav is a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. He is passionate about geopolitics, foreign policy,...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Error 404! DHC addresses the Out-of-Order Condition of...
The troubles for the Office of the Controller General of Patent, Designs, and Trade Mark (CGPDTM) just don’t seem to end anytime soon. In yet another “out of the frying pan and into the fire”...
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Workshop on Patent Oppositions in the Pharmaceutical Field [Kochi, April 26-30]
We are pleased to announce that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are jointly organizing a workshop on ‘Patent Opposition in the Pharmaceutical...
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Indian Patent Office Puts out 1532 Orders in One Day!
How many Controller decisions are given in one day? Following a curious post by Sandeep Rathod on LinkedIn noting that a whopping 1500+ patent decisions, perhaps the largest ever in a single day, were...
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Analysis of February 2024 Delhi High Court Judgment in InterDigital v. Oppo – I
I provided an overview of the 21 February 2024 Delhi High Court judgment in the earlier post. I will analyse the judgment in this series. Broadly speaking, I am unable to agree with the concept of...
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Analysis of February 2024 Delhi High Court Judgment in InterDigital v. Oppo – II
Bank Guarantee In the given case, the Court refused to accept the bank guarantee issued by HSBC-Paris – since it does not fall within the jurisdiction of Delhi High Court. HSBC-India declined to...
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Patent Rules Published: A Quick Look
Image from here On March 15, the Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2024 were published in the Gazette of India, making crucial changes in the Indian patent regime. There will likely be more posts in the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 11- March 17)
[This SpicyIP Weekly Review is authored by Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health with...
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Delhi HC in Zed Lifestyle Pvt Ltd. V. Hardik Mukeshbhai Pansheriya and Ors –...
Overview of the Case The plaintiff filed an infringement suit against the defendants from using any mark which is identical or deceptively similar to the plaintiff’s word and device mark “BEARDO”. The...
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Goa Circular, Permission for Music at Weddings, Police Sensitization:...
Image from Ducan Cumming, Flicker here Bonjour. I got you something from Goa – a circular! Yes, a circular saying that there is no need to take copyright permission for the performance of musical...
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Westward Look: Navigating the Divide between the Roles of Scientific Advisers...
Image from here Rewind to 1492 for a moment – yes, really! Back then, understanding a Latin word ‘licet’ required the wise advice of an expert (see the paywalled reference here). Thus, the tradition...
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