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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 25 – December 1)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on IPO’s patent application rejection of HIV drug Dolutegravir, another judgement in the long-running Section 3(k)...
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Counterfeit Goods and Criminal Sanctions: Assessing P&H Order on Procedural...
Discussing the Punjab and Haryana High Court order quashing the charges of copyright and trademark infringement on substantive and procedural grounds, SpicyIP intern Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan assesses...
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[Sponsored] PatSeer Announces “PatAssist”, an AI Assistant Designed to...
We are pleased to bring to you this sponsored post by PatSeer on the launch of their new AI assistant. For more details, read on their announcement below: PatSeer Announces “PatAssist”, an AI Assistant...
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Another day, Another Unreasoned Order by the Indian Patent Office: Analyzing...
In Signal Pharmaceuticals vs Deputy Controller of Patents, the Madras High Court set aside the impugned order by the Indian Patent Office for being a non-speaking one. Analysing the Court’s decision,...
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Music Academy v. V Shrinivasan: “Will”ing Posthumous Privacy/Publicity Rights...
Can someone’s wishes expressed in their Will overcome the precedents on descendability of publicity rights? Bharathwaj explores this question in light of the recent controversy surrounding the use of...
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Swiss Senate approves FTA with India: What’s at stake for patents?
Image from here.On December 3, the Swiss Senate (Council of States) overwhelmingly approved an FTA, the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement, between India and the European Free Trade Association...
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Part I: Unreasoned Patent Grants and Rejections: Taking a Look at the...
Image from here[This Post is co-authored by Swaraj, Praharsh, and Sabeeh]The November 28 order (pdf) of the Madras High Court is being extensively discussed among the patent attorneys circles of India...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 2 – December 8)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Madras HC’s setting aside another IPO order for being unreasoned, the use of name of the late singer M.S....
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Part II: Unreasoned Patent Grants and Rejections: Taking a Look at the...
[The post is co-authored by Praharsh and Sabeeh.]In light of the controversy surrounding the rejection of BASF’s divisional application, in Part I, we looked at the order granting a patent to its...
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Role of Family Courts in Intellectual Property Disputes: Looking at the...
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Kaustubh Chakrabarti. Kaustubh is a second year BA.LLB. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.] On 10th October 2024, an...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Reasons be Recorded While Granting Ex-parte Injunctions, held...
Image from hereRecently, Praharsh shared an interesting order, Kailash Kumar Jain v. Kundan Electro, with me concerning ex-parte proceedings—where the Delhi High Court called out non-recording of...
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Is One Nation One Subscription A Panacea for the Gap in Widespread Access to...
Cover page of the “Power of One” by Bryce Courtenay (image from here)[This post is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Shravya Pandre. Shravya is a third year BA.LLB. Hons. student at The National Academy...
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Comments Invited to Revise the ABS Guidelines, 2014 (December 17)
Image by macrovector on FreepikThe National Biodiversity Authority has invited comments to revise the Guidelines on Access to Biological Resources and Associated Knowledge and Benefits Sharing...
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Call for Submissions: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law...
We are pleased to announce that NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is inviting submissions for its 15th Volume. The last date for submission of entries is March 31, 2025....
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 9 – December 15)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on unreasoned patent grants and rejections, the One Nation One Subscription initiative by the government, and the...
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Formulation/Composition Claims and Section 3(d): Analyzing the Utidelone...
In light of the recent UTIDELONE patent grant order by the Indian Patent Office, Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan analyses the tactic to present a pharmaceutical invention as a composition to overcome Section...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Mankind v. A2 Lifesciences: Resorting to Mediation to Resolve...
[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Shravya Pandre. Shravya is a third year BA.LLB. Hons. student at The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad. Her previous post can be...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Médecins Sans Frontières suit against Dharma Productions for...
Image from here and here.In an interesting development that caught my eye (coincidentally after reading Shravya’s post here on Mediation in IP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has filed a suit against...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Update on the Oats Wars: Delhi High Court Issues Notice to...
Image from here[This post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Kaustubh Chakrabarti. Kaustubh is a second year BA.LLB. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.]There has been a...
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Delhi High Court Judges Included in ‘Most Influential People in IP’ List:...
Image from hereIt is not every day that members of the Indian legal fraternity are celebrated at global fora for their contributions to international IP jurisprudence. In a momentous announcement on...
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