SpicyIP TidBit: Indian Diplomat Naresh Prasad appointed as Assistant Director...
On 16th September, 2014, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) came out with an announcement detailing who composes the new WIPO Senior Management Team. Among the new appointees is Mr....
View ArticleSpicyIP Tibdit: The Bombay High Court recognizes Candy Crush Saga’s IPR
King.com, the company which owns intellectual property rights over Candy Crush, was recently embroiled in a copyright infringement suit against the Apeejay Surendra Group, a business conglomerate in...
View ArticleQuia timet injunction storm: Delhi HC grants injunction against Ranbaxy in...
As the mint reports; in response to a quia timet suit filed by Novartis, the Delhi high court issued an order Restraining Ranbaxy from manufacturing and selling a generic version of Vildagliptin...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law’s ‘IIT Law Review’
The Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law has recently launched a journal that aims to foster legal research. The Call for Submissions for the inaugural issue of the Journal is reproduced below: IIT Law Review...
View ArticleGuest Post: Groundless threat of Infringement proceedings- A Comparison...
Shashank Mangal is a fifth year student of ILS Law College, Pune. He is the Head Student Co-ordinator of the IPR Cell. Further, he is the author of quite a few IP papers and guest posts in SPICY IP. In...
View ArticleThe Delhi HC rules on the Address of Service & Territorial Jurisdiction of...
Jenson and Nicholson (I) Ltd v. The Joint Registrar of Trademarks and Anr. Read the decision here. Facts of the Case: The petitioners in this case, who were in the business of making paints and...
View ArticleMaintainability of Multiple Trademark Suits: Babu Chuna case
The Gujarat HC while entertaining a writ petition in Radhe Krishna Products vs Parshottambhai Dharamshibhai Lunagriya, ruled on certain aspects of the Civil Procedure Code with regard to filing...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: WIPO Launches Free Multilingual Terminology Database
One of the most important aspects of a patent system is touted to be the disclosure and subsequent usage/sharing of scientific and technological information that would help technological progress. The...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (15th to 21st September, 2014)
We started quite a busy week off with a post by Gopika on the Diageo Brands v. Khoday Distilleries case. Khoday was allegedly applying for the registration of and utilising marks that were deceptively...
View ArticleIPAB’s Power to Collect Evidence during Appeals to be Guided by CPC and...
Case- Agar Distributors and Ors v. IPAB and Ors (W.P. 364/2011) In an important judgment of the Bombay High Court, Justices A.K. Menon and S.J. Vazifdar have clarified the scope of parties’ right to...
View ArticleAcademics, diplomats, scientists, lawyers, public health orgs issue open...
A variety of concerned stakeholders comprising of esteemed academicians, former diplomats, scientists, lawyers and public health organisations have written a sharp open letter to Narendra Modi’s...
View ArticleSome thoughts on ‘posturing’ in international policy discourses
[*Long post] IP-Watch recently carried a post titled ‘Is the Development Dimension of WIPO incompatible with its role of IP protection?’ dealing with the ongoing debates within WIPO. Though I don’t...
View ArticleOn Girish Karnad and the Criminalisation of Copyright Infringement
On 23rd September, 2014, renowned playwright and Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad was granted anticipatory bail by a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Bangalore in relation to a copyright...
View ArticleThe Proposed Revised IPAB Rules That Need to See the Light of Day
SpicyIP has just unearthed a set of IPAB rules that had been drafted by former IPAB Chairman Justice Prabha Sridevan. Despite being submitted to the government two years ago, these rules have not seen...
View ArticleSpicyip Tidbit: ‘Swayam’, A Portal for Online Learning Launched; US And Top...
The Union Cabinet recently approved of the signing of a Joint Declaration of Intent between Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) & United States wherein the US universities would be...
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 ArticleGovt withdraws NPPA powers to cap prices of non-essential medicines in public...
In a momentous development, earlier this week the Government withdrew guidelines that enabled the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) exercise its powers to fix the prices of drugs that...
View ArticleThe DU Photocopying Case Thus Far
Gautam Bhatia, who blogs over at the Indian Constitutional Law Philosophy blog recently wrote an interesting piece for the Outlook where he talks about a case that we have covered ever so passionately...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (22nd-29th September, 2014)
The SpicyIP Highlight of the week is two posts I wrote on the IPAB Rules. I first blogged about the decision of the Bombay High Court on the power of the IPAB to collect evidence at the appellate...
View ArticleThe US-India Trade Policy Forum to Affect IP Policy Decisions!
With all the talk that has been done in the past of our IP laws, seemingly favouring innovation and not heeding to pressure from the developed world to enforce a more monopoly centric agenda, we have...
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