CGPTDM launches tools to obtain real-time information on patent applications
The Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks recently launched a couple of features on online search services for patents and trademarks to make the search process easier and provide...
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 ArticleThe Taming of the Tribunal
In a recent op-ed in the Financial Express, I reflect on the recent Supreme Court invalidation of the National Tax Tribunal (NTT). While some see this as payback by the judiciary against the government...
View ArticleIndia shoots unilateral USTR action down; Looks towards bilateral talks
In a very welcome and quick response to USTR’s Special 301 Out of Cycle Review (OCR) process for India that opened for comments a couple of days ago (October 14th), the Government of India has told the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Where Do We Stand on ‘Secondary Electronic Evidence’?
We’re happy to present to our readers a useful guest post by Aradhya Sethia, a student at NLSIU, Bangalore. In this post, Aradhya looks at a recent Supreme Court case’s take on Secondary Electronic...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: International Open Access Week from 20th to 26th October, 2014
The International Open Access Week, now in its 7th year, would be celebrated from 20th to 26th October this year. Open Access in its traditional sense referred to ‘unrestricted online access to...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Harvard Blue Book is in the Public Domain!
According to a letter written by Christopher Jon Springman (Professor, NYU School of Law representing Carl Malamud) to Peter M. Brody of Ropes & Gray LLP (law firm representing Harvard Law Review...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: First Rajinikanth, now Sridevi
Exactly one month ago, Superstar Rajinikanth had successfully obtained an order granting stay of a film titled ‘Main Hoon Rajinikanth’; Rajinikanth had alleged that the producer of the film had not...
View ArticleFreedom Trust Launched to Protect Free Speech in India
Hartosh Singh Bal who is currently the political editor at The Caravan and formerly held the post of the political editor at Open magazine has, in an article on Free Speech Debate, introduced an...
View ArticleT-Series Faces the Music on its Minimum Commitment Charges
The CCI in a recent decision ruled that Minimum Commitment (“MC”) charges imposed by T-Series on Radio Stations were unfair and discriminatory and imposed a penalty of Rs 28.3 million on T-Series....
View ArticleA Very Belated SpicyIP Weekly Review (6th to 12th October, 2014)
The Week with the NBER Paper Situation This week saw the emergence of a spicy controversy surrounding an NBER working paper which concluded that Indian firms differentiate drug quality based on...
View ArticleJurisdiction in E-Commerce IP Disputes
Given the meteoric rise of e-commerce companies like Flipkart and Snapdeal in India, one may safely conclude that e-commerce is here to stay. Legal disputes in the e-commerce sphere are already...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Happy New Year granted John Doe order ahead of its release
Red Chillies Entertainments Private Limited’s film ‘Happy New Year’, starring Deepika Padukone and Shah Rukh Khan, is set to release in theatres across India on 24th October, 2014. The production...
View ArticleBlast From the Past: Pyaasa (1957)
No discussion on Indian cinema is complete without the mention of Guru Dutt’s timeless classic ‘Pyaasa’. Starring Waheeda Rehman and Guru Dutt in key roles, the film is about the life of a struggling...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (13th-19th October, 2014)
Last week was a lively one at SpicyIP with us covering a range of issues such as secondary electronic evidence, jurisdiction in e-commerce disputes and the Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the...
View ArticleBreaking News: Shemaroo refused injunction in ‘Tamanchey’ case
In an order dated 10th October, a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court rejected Shemaroo’s application for an injunction restraining the release of the film ‘Tamanchey’. Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd....
View ArticleThe DST/DBT Releases the Second Draft of its Open Access Policy
The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology (DST/DBT) together released the second draft of its Open Access Policy and has invited comments on the same. The Open Access...
View ArticleWhich Singh is King? Two IPR Firms Take on Each Other in a Trademark Battle...
In an application for temporary injunction in a trademark suit between law firms Singh & Singh and Singh & Associates, Justice Endlaw of the Delhi High Court on 14th October ordered that Singh...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: It is Still Copyright Infringement if the Image is ‘Modified’!
Massachusetts-based photographer Bimal Nepal has had a strange Diwali this year. A photograph of lamps that he had posted on Flickr in 2012 has been copied without permission – by the Prime Minister...
View ArticleThe Day the Music Died: In the “Company” of Collusive Collecting Societies
Much like the Diwali crackers bursting all around us, this IP news comes with a bang! In a momentous development for copyright law in India, IPRS and PPL have declared that they are no longer...
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