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GCIP Day 1 Session 3: Challenges in Re-Articulating Public Interest
This post is part of SpicyIP’s coverage of the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. At the third plenary session of GCIP15, the discussion revolved around...
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GCIP 15 Day 2: Discussions on Health Technology, Innovation and Access
This post is part of SpicyIP’s coverage of the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. The Global Congress is a confluence of academics, policy advocates and activists...
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Three Indians Make it to MIP’s List of 50 most influential IP Personalities
Time for some kudos, just as the year draws to a close. As in previous years, the reputed international journal ‘Managing Intellectual Property’ (“MIP”), came up with its list of the 50 most...
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GCIP15 Day 2: Fixing the problems in Trade Negotiations
This post documents the interesting discussions that took place in the Trade Negotiations Panel at day 2 of the GCIP 2015. The panel was conducted under the Chatham House rules, and hence no...
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IPO: CRIs guidelines kept in abeyance till contentious issues resolved
The Indian Patent Office (IPO) has issued an office order on December 14, 2015 stating that the Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRls) issued on August 21, 2025 will be kept...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit : Rain ravages Chennai IPO?
We received a tip off from an anonymous source that the rain that devastated Chennai in November and early December, also found its way into Chennai’s IPO – destroying many trademark and patent files...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (14-20 December 2015)
Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight was our coverage of the Fourth Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, for which SpicyIP was the media partner. In the lead-up to the event, we had...
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AstraZeneca v. Dr. Reddy’s – Colour as a Pharmaceutical Trade Dress
“You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole...
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A not-so-merry Christmas?
Where is our Christmas gift? I feel saddened this Christmas day as I read this post that I wrote a year ago. I sound so hopeful, so naive in my belief that the DU Photocopy case would be resolved in...
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SpicyIP Event : ILS Law College to host National Seminar on “Current Issues...
We’re pleased to bring to our readers’ notice that the Intellectual Property Cell of ILS Law College, Pune is organising a National Seminar on “Current Issues in Intellectual Property Laws in India”....
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SpicyIP Jobs: Research positions at JIRICO, O.P. Jindal Global University
SpicyIP is happy to announce this opportunity to join a research team at the O.P. Jindal Global University. Read on for details of the posting. O.P. Jindal Global University is pleased to offer an...
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The Wow of the Now: Of Flow, Creativity and IP
What once was new is now old And what is now new will soon be old And so it goes With friends and foes Once a friend, now a foe And now a friend, but a foe before Nothing to hold Nothing to last...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (21st December – 2nd January)
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week ! In this week’s highlight, I looked into the complexities associated with using a colour mark as a pharmaceutical trade dress, in the light of the trade mark...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Research positions under MHRD IP Chair, IIT Madras
It might be of interest to some of our readers that the MHRD IP Chair at IIT Madras is looking to recruit a Research Associate (full-time) and Research Interns (till March 2016). More details on these...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at ARCIALA, SMU (School of Law)
SpicyIP is happy to announce an exciting opportunity for scholars interested in working on Asian and comparative IP law- the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia...
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Copyfraud, Collecting Societies and Quixotic Crusades
More than a year ago, a curious incident cropped up in the copyright circles. Saint Tyagaraja’s music (recorded by various Carnatic music enthusiasts and uploaded on select YouTube channels) was hit...
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Trademarks Registry Official among three convicted in graft case
Three persons, including a former Deputy Registrar of Trade Marks Registry, were recently convicted by the CBI Court in a corruption case. The Anti Corruption Branch of CBI had registered a case in...
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Right of Publicity in India – An Unfinished Story
(This post summarizes a recent matter that had the Delhi HC delving into the subject of publicity rights, and goes on to examine the current degree of legal recognition accorded to publicity rights in...
View ArticleAccessing Ayyangar Openly: SpicyIP Teams with EBC
Open access lies at the heart of SpicyIP’s mission to democratize the discussion around intellectual property rights. Fortunately for us, we’ve been blessed with some wonderful partners in the past....
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Announcing the 2016-17 SpicyIP Fellowship!
We’re very happy to announce the next edition of the SpicyIP Annual Fellowship! Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the Fellowship, and we look forward to hearing from those of you who...
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