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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 16 – December 22)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on formulation/composition claims and Section 3(d), Managing IP’s Most Influential People in IP List, and Médecins...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Understanding the Powers of Regional Directors under...
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.]In a decision...
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Call for Submissions: GNLU’s Journal of Law and Technology
We are pleased to announce that Gujrat National Law University, Gandhinagar is inviting submissions for its Journal of Law and Technology (ISSN: 3048-9989 (Print)) on rolling basis. For further...
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Delhi High Court Rulings on Celebrity Rights Galore: Examining the Rajat...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 23 – December 29)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Delhi HC’s ruling on Celebrity Rights and the Powers of Regional Directors under Companies Act vis a vis...
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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2024
[This post is authored by – Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan, Md. Sabeeh Ahmad, Aishani Chatterjee, Swaraj Barooah, and Praharsh Gour with research inputs from Aarav Gupta, Tejas Misra, Aditi Bansal, Mansi...
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Screenwriters Rights Association of India Gets Registered as a Copyright Society
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun.]After years of advocacy by screenwriters seeking...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Revisiting Trade Secrets in the Light of The Delhi High...
Image by storyset on Freepik[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Kaustubh Chakrabarti. Kaustubh is a second year BA.LLB. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University,...
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Nayanthara and Dhanush Copyright Controversy – De Minimis Rule to the Rescue?
With the deadline of January 8 nearing for Naayanthara to file her reply in the high-profile copyright dispute with actor Dhanush’s production house, over the unauthorized use of behind-the-scenes...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on India’s Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters...
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DHC Directs CIC to Disclose a Ph.D Thesis, Clarifies that it is Not Exempted...
Analysing the Delhi High Court’s decision in Rajeev Kumar v. Central Information Commission, SpicyIP intern Aishani Chatterjee discusses its key contribution vis-a-vis academic freedom. Aishani is a...
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Discussing Lemley and Henderson’s “The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence...
Image from here“There is a certain hypocrisy in arguing that training models on the public’s data is fair use but then seeking to prevent others from doing the same thing.”-Lemley and...
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Committee Recommends Deregistration of Patent Agent After Professional...
The CGPDTM has ordered the removal of a patent agent from the Register of Patent Agents following a recommendation by the Ad-Hoc committee that had been constituted by the DPIIT to deal with the...
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Navigating Personality Rights – Does Fame Have a Trade-Off?
Regarding personality rights and introducing a public interest test before granting protection to celebrities, Rebecca Cardoso, in this guest post, advocates for a balanced approach prioritizing...
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Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to...
In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted the accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! Discussing this and other similar instances, SpicyIP Intern Aditi Agrawal writes on...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 6 – January 12)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Lemley’s and Henderson’s paper on AI Terms of Use Restrictions, CGPDTM order on the removal of a patent agent,...
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Trust Issues- When Secrets Come with a Commercial Price: Analyzing Cigma...
Discussing the Delhi High Court’s clarification regarding the economic value of the information to qualify as confidential information, SpicyIP Intern Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan explains the Court’s...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the post on the analysis of Cigma Events Private Limited v. Deepak Gupta & Ors and enforcing criminal remedies against IP...
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Taking a Look at the Delhi High Court’s Ambitious (Yet Necessary?) Directives...
Image from here[This post is authored by Sunidhi Das. Sunidhi is a second year student at NLSIU, Bangalore and is very enthusiastic about IP law and policy. Also a big thanks to Bharathwaj...
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A Rare Invocation for a Rare Disease?: Government Urged to Invoke Section...
Rajya Sabha MP Haris Beeran wrote to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare on December 20, 2024, urging the Central Government to invoke Section 100 (1) of the Patents Act with respect to local...
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