Protecting Quasi Judicial Officers from Executive Excesses: A Patent Upliftment!
Read the text of the judgment here. In a significant development for IP and constitutional law, the Delhi High Court ruled that the statutory discretion vested in quasi-judicial officials such as...
View ArticleBreaking News: Nitto Denko v. UOI: Delhi HC addresses Patent Application...
Recently, the Delhi High Court kicked in some steps to clear the huge backlog at the Indian Patent Office in terms of clearing patent applications and devising effective strategy to maintain time bound...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (20th to 26th October, 2014)
The Week in which the Delhi High Court addressed Patent Application Pendency The SpicyIP Highlight of the Week was Anubha’s post on the case at the Delhi High Court – Nitto Denko v. Union of India. The...
View ArticleBlast From the Past: Dilip Kumar Pickles and Parveen Babi Soap
Two film stars recently made news when they sought to restrain the release of movies purporting to associate themselves with these actors- the actors alleged that the movies were violating the...
View ArticleLEGALITY OF DIGITAL COURSE PACKS: THE USA EXPERIENCE
(Warning: Long Post ahead!) In a development which has major implications to the DU Photocopy case, the US Eleventh Circuit Court has come out with a ruling on the legality of course packs. The case...
View ArticleGuest Post: Online System does not support high value patent filing transactions
Recently we wrote about the number of welcome measures taken by the Patent office with regard to transparency and efficiency, including the online payment gateway. While we certainly applaud these...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Plain Packaging Packaged in a Notification?
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India recently issued a notification introducing a requirement that the pictorial and textual statutory warnings that are to be placed on the...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: DU to have its own IP policy soon!
The Economic Times recently reported that Delhi University would soon be having its own IP policy in place. The IP policy would seek to address and clarify, inter alia, the issues pertaining to...
View ArticleSpicy IP Halloween trivia :patents and the spirits
In the “spirit” of Halloween, SPICY IP brings to you – a post about the Ouija board and its patent history. Read on for an interesting anecdote about a skeptical US patent examiner asking the inventor...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (27th October to 2nd November, 2014)
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! The SpicyIP Highlight of the Week goes to Thomas’ post on the plain packaging notification issued by the Government of India this week. According to the notification,...
View ArticleCipla Applies to DIPP to Revoke Novartis’ Patents on Respiratory Drug- Can...
In a momentous development as reported by the Economic Times, Cipla has brazenly launched a cheaper generic version of Novartis’ Indacetorol (a drug used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary...
View ArticleRoche -Cipla agree to disagree: Erlotinib patent dispute mediation fails
Looks like Cipla is the news again, this time around in the mediation arena! In an interesting development reported by TOI, Roche and Cipla have failed to reach an agreement over the Erlotinib patent...
View ArticlePetition for Freeing “Standards” for Public Use
Brief Summary: Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit that works on spreading knowledge on the Internet for the benefit of the general public, along with a few other concerned folks have petitioned the...
View ArticleTrademark Battle over ‘Khadi’
It has recently come to the notice of the Indian Government that a German company is using the term ‘khadi’ in its trademark. Khadi, a special type of hand-spun cloth made in India was popularized by...
View Article‘A Question of Law 2014’~ Annual Quiz on Law Day
SpicyIP is pleased to announce that Rainmaker is organizing the 4th edition of ‘A Question of Law 2014’, its annual quiz on law and related subjects, on 26th November, i.e., Law Day. The quiz which has...
View ArticleThink Tank constituted by DIPP to draft a national IPR Policy for India
The Economic Times reports that Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has set up a think tank to advise the Government on a gamut of issues related to patents and to also draft a...
View ArticleBlast from the Past: Einstein & Thomas Jefferson were patent- examiners!
While patent examiners are generally known for helping others obtain patents, who would have known that a famous inventor and scientist, none other than the great Albert Einstein, was himself a...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: ‘Amma Mineral Water’ trademark likely to fail
The State Express Transport Corporation of Tamil Nadu had applied for a trademark for ‘Amma Mineral Water’ at the Trademarks Registry in Chennai. ‘Amma Water’ is a product of Amma Mineral Water...
View ArticleEuropean Patent Office & India sign MoU on bilateral co-operation on patents
The European Patent Office (EPO) announced on its website today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Intellectual Property Office of India (IPO India) on co-operation...
View ArticleBreaking News: Delhi HC: Non Compliance with Section 8 not an automatic route...
Yesterday, the Delhi High Court in Sukesh Behl V. Koninklijke Phillips Electronics (Division Bench. Maj. Behl Vs Philips-DB1-DHC 7.11.2014) passed a significant decision with regard to Section 8 of the...
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