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SpicyIP Weekly Review ( 5th – 11th October)
Our SpicyIP Highlight of the Week is definitely Shamnad sir’s post on Merck’s victory in the Delhi HC’s recent ruling barring Glenmark from selling a generic version of Merck’s patent-protected anti...
View ArticleFinal IP Policy draft leaked!
The “Dont Trade Our Lives Away” blog brings us news that the final draft of India’s National IP Policy has been leaked! This is the link they’ve provided: India’s National IP Policy – leaked final...
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Guest Post: The National IP Policy which is generic, obvious and lacking in...
Hot on the heels of the alleged leaked final draft of the National IP Policy that I posted about this morning, Prashant Reddy comes out with a scathing commentary on it. Without further ado, let’s get...
View ArticleAnnouncement of IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship...
Inter University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT is pleased to announce Two Summer Fellowships under ‘IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship’ program...
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Neon Laboratories v. Medical Technologies – First in the market, or first to...
(Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets.jpg) The case of Neon Laboratories v. Medical Technologies came up to the Supreme Court through an...
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Pfizer’s Pregabalin – An IP Tale of Pain and Second Medical Use patents, Part I
(Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyrica.jpg) In a fascinating development, the England-Wales Patent court last month pronounced the judgment on Pfizer Group’s Warner-Lambert...
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Pfizer’s Pregabalin – An IP Tale of Pain and Second Medical Use patents, Part II
(Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyrica.jpg) This is the second post in a two-part post dealing with the England-Wales Patent Court’s recent judgment on Pfizer Group’s...
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Copyrightability of Titles: A Definitive Supreme Court Ruling
The issue of IPR protection for titles (film, music etc) is something that we have often discussed on SpicyIP (We had a guest post on copyright protection for film titles- available here, Anubha...
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The Bajrangi Bhaijaan Lawsuit
Bajrangi Bhaijaan made all the right noises at the box office a few months ago, when it was declared a multicrore hit, crossing the 100 crore mark. However, it is now in the news with respect to...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (12-18 October 2015)
Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight has to be our coverage of the leaked final draft (submitted by the think-tank to the Government) of the National IPR Policy. Swaraj broke the news and shared...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Audio companies v. Film Producers
In continuation of a recent trend of audio companies suing film producers for copying their songs in part or in full, Lahari Audio has sued K A Suresh, producer of the film RX Suri alleging that he has...
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Guest Post: The Rs. 400 crore war between Monsanto and Indian seed companies...
Image from here What role could the competition and IPR frameworks play in a dispute between Monsanto and Indian cotton seed manufacturers? Prashant Reddy weighs in on the question of the extent to...
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ED attaches IPRS assets: What next for royalty administration?
A couple of days ago, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) – the law enforcement agency in India that deals with economic offences, attached the assets of the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) on...
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Qu-IP: Innovative Impotence in Intellectual Intercourse?
Readers may recollect an early series of ours titled “Qu-IP”, where we sought to collate some of the wittiest and whackiest IP quips/sentiments. Well, here comes one.. after a rather long hiatus. In...
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Some thoughts on plagiarism
Recently, I came across an interesting article titled ’Putin’s dissertation and the revenge of RuNet’ The article focuses on academic plagiarism by the ruling class especially in Russia. They are being...
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Spicy Tidbits: Novelty with respect to the administration of IPRs: New Draft...
We bring to you two new tidbits about the IPR scene in India. A new set of draft rules amending the Patent Rules, 2003 have been released by the DIPP. The new draft rules are available here. It is...
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SpicyIP Weekly Reviews (19th to 31st October)
(Posting on behalf of Kartik Chawla.) The SpicyIP Highlight of the Fortnight period is Thomas’ post on the Enforcement Directorate attaching IPRS’ assets. He discusses the bases of the allegations, and...
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Can IPRs be treated as ‘plant’ under Section 43(3) of the Income Tax Act?
On 15th October, the Supreme Court of India delivered its judgment in Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works v. CIT (judgment available here) on the issue whether the acquisition of trademarks, copyright and...
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CTR v. Sergi- Interim Injunction or Mini Trial?
[We bring to you a guest post by Prashant Reddy on the recent CTR v. Sergi patent case decided by the Bombay High Court. In this post, Prashant offers a lucid and detailed critique of Justice Gautam...
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Trade Secrets and the Right to Information: Thoughts on Ferani Hotels v....
A recent judgement [PDF] from the Bombay High Court has thrown the spotlight on the interplay between IP protection and the Right to Information Act. Over the course of two posts, I’ll summarise the...
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