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Specialised IP Courts (Part II): Interrogating the IPAB
Specialised courts are contentious creatures! The ICTSD is soon coming up with a series of papers on this and I’m doing the Indian section on this for them. I thought it timely to therefore put out...
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Specialised Courts (III): Commercialising the High Courts?
This is the third part of our series on specialised courts. The first one captured the sentiments of two judicial heavyweights, one from 50 years ago (J. Rifkind), and another more recent (J. Wood)....
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Madras High Court on IPAB Order in Basmati row
SpicyIP has recently carried a guest post on the recent IPAB Order in Basmati row which went in favour of APEDA. As per Times of India, on a writ petition filed by Madhya Pradesh against the aforesaid...
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Smoking Monkeys, Roasted Hornbill and Indian Trademark Law
What’s the connection, you might ask? Well, you’d have to dip into a rather profound parliamentary conversation that preceded the passage of the 1999 Trademarks Act (the one that brought in the...
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Fifth Annual IP Teaching Workshop, 2016
SpicyIP is happy to announce that the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC), National Law University Delhi, in association with the National Academy of Law Teaching, NLU...
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Freedom 251: Pull the other one (it’s got Bells on)! (Part I)
This two-post series focuses on Ringing Bells’ newly launched smartphone, Freedom 251, which has been creating waves recently. The phone was launched at a price of Rs. 251, and the company claims that...
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Freedom 251: Pull the other one (it’s got Bells on)! (Part II)
The first post in this series discussed the reasons the Freedom 251’s pricing was so significant, and discussed the factors that affect a smartphone’s price. This post discusses the controversies the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (31st Jan – 21st Feb)
SPICYIP HIGHLIGHT In a fantastic two-part follow-up to Part I of his series on Specialised IP Courts, Shamnad sir critically examines the functioning of specialised IP tribunals in India. In Part II,...
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The Pulp of the Penguin and Compulsory Licensing?
Two years ago, the piece below was emailed out to our subscribers who are part of the SpicyIP google group. Unfortunately, it was never posted on the blog; am therefore doing the honours now, so that...
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Caste(ing) out Copyright Conundrums: Ambedkar, Arundhati and Compulsory...
Carrying on from our earlier post on the Doniger vs Penguin (Pulp) Controversy (again the below post had only been emailed out to SpicyIP subscribers two years ago: so reproducing it in full below, so...
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New CRI examination guidelines issued by our patent office
Justice Ayyangar’s report formed the basis of the 1970 Indian patents act, and without doubt, has been the key driving force behind the stellar success of the Indian generic industry. I would venture...
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Specialised IP Courts (IV): Correcting the Copyright Board
In a series of posts, I reflected on the desirability or otherwise of specialised IP adjudication in India. Previous posts dealt with the woeful history of the IPAB and the new kid on the specialised...
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Full Bench Delhi HC: No prior permission from court to initiate rectification...
Section number ‘124’ seems to the most trending section number this month in India – from passionate debates over the highly controversial section 124A of the Indian Penal Code splashed all over the...
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Delhi HC: Pending IPR cases to heard by Commercial Divisions of High Court –...
A Single Judge of the Delhi HC in Guinness World Record and Ors v. Sababbi and Ors, recently decided the issue of whether IPR cases below Rs. 1 crore can be transferred to jurisdictional district...
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Part II: New CRI examination guidelines issued by our patent office
This post is in continuation to the previous post informing our readers about the new CRI guidelines. And it was necessitated because of the serious debate triggered as evinced by the several comments...
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Bringing Back the Zing: SpicyIP Fellowship of the Ring
So the blog lost a bit of it’s zing in the past year or so. But we’re all set to revamp and rejuvenate it with a fresh batch of bloggers. We put out a call for SpicyIP Fellows some months ago. While...
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SpicyIP Trivia: The Royalties That Never Grow Up
This blog has always had a healthy fascination with the lesser-known quirks of intellectual property law. We’ve always had posts that throw the limelight on the interesting, the off-beat and the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (22-28 February 2016)
Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight is Rajiv’s two-part post on the newly released Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions. In part I, he analyses the guidelines and notes...
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Secret Sovaldi Hearings: Whither Transparency?
In yet another blow for transparency, the Indian patent office is apparently doing all it can to discourage members of the public from accessing the patent opposition hearings in the Sovaldi...
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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016: MAC Personal Care Private Limited & Anr. V Laverana...
In the first post of our fellowship series, Rahul Bajaj, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant analyses a recent decision of a division bench of the Delhi High Court in MAC Personal Care Private Limited...
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