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Some Thoughts on the “Fairness” of the Delhi High Court’s Ericsson-Lava FRAND...
Image from here [This post is co-authored with Swaraj Paul Barooah.] This is Part II of the two part post on the recent Delhi High Court decision on the Ericsson-Lava SEP dispute. In Part I of the...
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[Sponsored] Admissions Open: WIPO-NLUD-IPO Joint Masters/LL.M. at National...
We are pleased to inform you that admissions are now open for the WIPO-NLUD-IPO joint Masters/ LL.M. programme. The last date to apply is June 3, 2024. For more detail please read the announcement...
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Webinar on EFTA-India Trade Deal & Amendments to Patent Rules: Threat to...
We are pleased to inform you that the Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatments is organizing a webinar today to examine the impact of the EFTA-India Free Trade Agreement and the Patents...
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Perverse Incentives: How Academic Incentives are Counter-Productive to...
Critiquing the policy to incentivise patent filing by academicians, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Apoorv Kumar Chaudhary arguing why patents may not be relevant in every field and...
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Disclaimed Trademarks: Protection or Usurpation
We are pleased to bring to you this guest post on the statutory position and judicial interpretation of disclaimed marks in the Indian trademarks regime. The post is authored by Surabhi Katare who is...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 22- April 28)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the Ericsson- Lava SEP dispute, disclaimed trademarks, and impact of patents on innovation in academia. Anything we...
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Problem Statement Precision: A Key Factor in TSM-Based Non-Obviousness...
Discussing the Delhi High Court’s Microsoft Technology Licensing v. Asst. Controller of Patents decision on the role of PSITA in determining non obviousness, we are pleased to bring to you this post...
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Natco v Novartis 2024: Delhi High Court’s Novartis Moment & Indian Patent...
The Delhi High Court, on 24th April, passed an order that our patent law enthusiast readers will be very interested in! Reviving, (and at least temporarily settling!) questions around what is...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 29- May 05)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of posts on the DHC’s decision in Natco v. Novartis appeal and the MHC’s decision in Microsoft Technology Licensing v. Asst....
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Whose Serve is it Anyway? Assessing the Sun Pharma v. Dabur Finding on the...
One of the seemingly under-discussed aspects of the Delhi High Court’s decision in Sun Pharma v. Dabur India is the Court’s passing comments on the responsibility to serve the Counter-Statement in...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 6- May 12)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the post on DHC’S observation in Sun Pharma v. Dabur India. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us...
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Law Commission’s 289th report- Trade Secret and Economic Espionage
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Law Commission (LC) recently released its report no. 289- “Trade Secret and Economic Espionage”. (Part 1, Part 2and Part 3) In this post, I will discuss the key...
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Announcing the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual...
Prof (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. Celebrating our founder Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer’s 48th birth anniversary, SpicyIP is thrilled to announce the 2024 edition...
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Leaving Out the Working Examples?
A development that patent lawyers are surely going to find interesting, on March 13, the Delhi High Court, in Bayer Pharm Aktiengesellschaft v. The Controller General of Patents & Designs,...
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Reconceptualizing Trademark Protection in the Digital Age: A Proposal for...
Critiquing the 2023 decisions on Keywords by the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court, we are pleased to bring to you this two part post by Malak Sheth. In part I of the post, he critiques the...
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Reconceptualizing Trademark Protection in the Digital Age: A Proposal for...
Continuing the discussion (see here for Part I) on the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court’s 2023 Keywords decisions, Malak Sheth critiques the Courts’ approach, arguing that use of a trademark in...
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Delhi High Court Clarifies the Position on Writ Jurisdiction Against Orders...
Image from here In Rich Products Corporation v. The Controller of Patents (dt. May 1, 2024), a division bench of the Delhi High Court has killed two birds with one stone. Hearing an appeal against a...
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What’s in a Name? Taking a look at IPO’s Interesting Observations on Benami...
Image by freepik The recent decision of the Indian Patent Office in Suman Das v. Arcelormittal (Application no. IN 201717013441) emphasizes the need to pay attention to the content of the opposition...
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After 19 Years, Delhi High Court Passes the Judgement in the Viagra-Vigoura...
[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Surabhi Katare. Surabhi is a recent graduate from Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. She is interested in IPR, media, and tech laws and wants to...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi High Court grants an Ex-parte Ad interim Injunction to...
[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Surabhi Katare. Surabhi is a recent graduate from Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. She is interested in IPR, media, and tech laws and wants to...
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