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Product Patents and Process Patents: Analysing the MHC’s Insights in the...
On July 5, 2024, Justice P.B. Balaji of the Madras High Court (MHC) delivered two decisions that overturned the Controller’s rejection of patent applications, siding with the appellants in both cases....
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Goa Circular on the Unauthorized Use of Sound Recordings During Weddings Hits...
Recently on August 13, the Bombay High Court at Goa scrapped the Goa Government’s circular on unauthorised use of sound recordings during weddings. Discussing the order and this long running...
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Not Examined the Inventive Step Enough? Madras HC Remands Patent Application...
Recently the MHC remanded a matter back to the Controller for re-consideration on whether the cited prior art would render the invention obvious in light of the explanation in the specification....
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Trademark Rectification And Counterclaims: MadHC’s Views on the Interaction...
On August 20, 2024, a single-judge bench of the IP Division of the Madras High Court (MadHC) issued an Order (pdf) with notable observations about the feasibility of allowing a counterclaim in a...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM in Spotlight- DPIIT Head takes over CGPDTM IT Division
Image from hereDPIIT, in a notification dated 27th August 2024, appointed Subhash Chandra Karol, Director of the DPIIT, as the Head of the IT office of the CGPDTM. It is not clear what has triggered...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 26-September 1)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on DPIIT’s decision to take over the IT division of CGPDTM, BHC at Goa’s decision to scrap the Goa govt.’s circular...
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SLP Rejected in Novartis v. Natco: Are Interim Orders not Precedents?
[A big thanks to Praharsh for his inputs on the post.]On 02 August 2024, a three judges bench of the Supreme Court (“SC”), consisting of Justices Dr D Y Chandrachud, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, in...
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A Baffling Judgment from the Delhi High Court in a Trade Secrets Case
Recently, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued an interim injunction in a lawsuit concerning trade secrets and confidential information. In this context, Prashant Reddy T briefly touches upon the...
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Call for Submissions: NUALS’ IXth CIPR National Essay Writing Competition...
We are pleased to inform our readers that the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi is organizing an essay competition on the theme, “IP and...
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DHC Passed Over-broad Order in Louis Vuitton Advertisement Material Copyright...
[This post is co-authored with Tejas Misra. Tejas is a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi, and is interested in the evolution of IPR law and its growth in India. His previous...
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“No Whisper of Urgency”: HP HC Dismisses Infringement Suit for Not Complying...
Recently, the Himachal Pradesh High Court underlined the importance of pre-institution mediation under the Commercial Court Act (CCA) by refusing to hear a patents and designs infringement suit due to...
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Lessons on the RTI Act: Of Missing Records at the DCGI’s Office & Litigation...
Capturing his years-long journey trying to trace important “missing” public documents, Prashant highlights the lack of transparency and shoddy record keeping by CDSCO and shares his exhausting...
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Journey Through “Mays” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)
Image from hereAs I conclude my summer vacation at home, it’s the perfect moment to bring the series I started over a year ago to its conclusion …Welcome to the climactic finale of our “Sifting Through...
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[Sponsored] PatSeer Launches AI-Driven Industrial Design Database with...
We are pleased to bring to you this sponsored post by PatSeer on the launch of their new Industrial Design Search solution. For more details, read on below.PatSeer Launches AI-Driven Industrial Design...
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Voice Clones and Legal Tones: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and...
Discussing the impact of reviving and utilizing deceased persons’ voices through AI tools, and the sufficiency of the legal frameworks in India and other countries to address this phenomena, we are...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 2-September 8)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on DHC’s orders in a trade secrets matter, and in the Louis Vuitton- Haute24 copyright dispute, HP HC’s order...
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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights 2nd Edition
We’re very happy to bring to our readers a review of one of the last (to reach completion, at least) pieces of work that our founder, Prof Basheer had been working on prior to his passing. Started in...
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Book Review: Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore
We are pleased to bring to you this book review of David Llewelyn, Gladys Tan, Estelle Moh Huixuan and Ng Hui Ming’s ‘Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore’, (SAL Academy Publishing, 2023) by Prashant...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 9-September 15)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on posthumous personality rights of artists, and book reviews of “Modern Law of Copyright in Singapore” and...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: MP High Court Sets Aside Excise Commissioner’s Order for Not...
On August 27, the Madhya Pradesh High Court passed a peculiar decision, in a writ appeal, setting aside the Excise Commissioner’s order for not considering the alleged similarities between the...
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