Vringo v. ZTE: DHC vacates injunction against ZTE
Our readers would remember that some time back we had carried a post on the dispute between Vringo & ZTE. As a background, Vringo had filed two different law suits against ZTE. One law suit was...
View ArticleSpicyIP Event: IP Week @ SG 2014
We’d like to bring to our readers notice, IP Week @ SG 2014. Details are as follows: “The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore will hold its flagship IP Week @ SG 2014 event from 25 to 27 August....
View ArticleGuest Post: Karnataka’s ‘Goondas Act’– An examination
Many of you may have heard about Karnataka’s new ‘draconian’ Goonda Act which seeks to bring within its ambit ‘digital offenders’ and ‘audio or video pirates’. In this very comprehensive guest post,...
View ArticleNeed Your Feedback: Report on Indian IP and Public Health
A month or so ago, I’d sent around an email to our SpicyIP mailing group asking for inputs on a report on IP and public health (for the WHO India Office). The report (authored by some of the SpicyIP...
View ArticleOf Posters, Photographs and Poses!
Aamir Khan’s upcoming film PK has already become the talk of the town; the actor who was in the news recently for posing nude in one of the posters for the film caught my attention (no pun intended)...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (10th-17th August, 2014)
The SpicyIP Story of the Week is a guest post by Nehaa Chaudhari on the Karnataka Goondas Act which seeks to bring within its ambit ‘digital offenders’ and ‘audio or video pirates’. She points out...
View ArticleDandi Salt v. Union of India: Copyright Board may consider Review Applications
Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court recently passed an order stating that the Registrar of Copyrights does not have the power to adjudicate upon the merits of an application preferred by the...
View ArticleAccess to Medicines for Hepatitis C: Part I – Gilead Annouces 300$ price for...
After a huge outcry over its exorbitant price, Gilead Science is offering its Hepatitis C (HCV) blockbuster drug ‘Sovaldi’ at a significant discount in India. As the Times of India reports, Sovaldi...
View ArticleAccess to Medicines for Hepatitis C: Part II – Evaluating the Arsenal
Gilead’s 300$ a bottle (900$/12 weeks) announcement for blockbuster anti Hepatitis C drug ‘Sovaldi’ comes at a time when Gilead is under tremendous pressure internationally from both governments and...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: All your content belongs to us (unless you opt out)
Do you know of a copyright provision anywhere in the world that would allow your content (that you created), become an unrelated party’s property unless you sent them an email stating that you’d like...
View ArticleMAELS 2014- 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit
SpicyIP is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit (MAELS 2014). Details are as follows: An aggressive industry research that Lex Witness conducted within...
View ArticlePLCS 2014- Pharma Legal and Compliance Summit 2014
SpicyIP is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Pharma Legal & Compliance Summit 2014. The details are as follows: The Pharma Legal & Compliance Summit was launched in 2012 and ever since has...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (18th to 24th August, 2014)
In case you missed us the past week, here’s a roundup of all the stories that we carried on the blog over the past week. We started the week off with Anubha’s post on the case of Dandi Salt v. Union of...
View ArticleStalling scientific progress with chilly copyright censure
[Apologies in advance for the long post. Though its been over a month since this development, I've seen it discussed very little anywhere else and thought it better to include as much as I could on it....
View ArticleGlobal Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015
SpicyIP is pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi,...
View ArticleCall for Papers: The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 2014-15.
The readers may be interested in knowing that the Indian Journal of Law and Technology is inviting submissions for its eleventh volume. The details are provided below. The Indian Journal of Law and...
View ArticleGuest Post: More on the legitimacy of assumed consent
Readers may recall the strange email that the news website Medianama received from Thomson Reuters recently. (We wrote about it here). In short, Thomson Reuters had sent Medianama an email stating that...
View ArticleGuest Post: Karnataka Goondas Act – A note on Legislative Competence
A couple of weeks ago, we had an insightful guest post by Nehaa Chaudhari on amendments to Karnataka’s Goondas Act, a draconian legislation which seeks to allow preventive detention for some types of...
View ArticleDomain Name News: Indian Government Launches ‘Desi’ Domain Names; Reliance...
A 2014 study found that India has one of the lowest levels of Internet penetration in the Asia Pacific region, at just 17.4%. Apart from poor internet infrastructure, one of the factors contributing to...
View ArticleDelhi HC: Collector’s Choice deceptively similar to Officer’s Choice
The plaintiff is the registered proprietor of the trademark ‘Officer’s Choice’. The mark has been used by the plaintiff since 1988 and the plaintiff obtained registration in 2007. In 2013, the...
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