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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: India’s ‘Private’ Assurance to USIBC on...
In this post Inika Charles, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant discusses whether India’s private assurance to USIBC that it would not invoke compulsory licensing for commercial purposes indicates a...
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Patent Pledge: Caving in on Compulsory Licensing?
Caving in on compulsory licensing? And pledging away public health safeguards? If the Indian governments’ alleged under-the-table assurance to USIBC (and other US industry groups) that it will not...
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Roche vs Cipla at the Supreme Court: Technical Expertise?
We’ve been given to believe that the Roche vs Cipla appeal came up at the Supreme Court today. Here is what a friend of SpicyIP just wrote in: “The matter came up today before Justice Gogoi and Justice...
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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: enGENDERing (a) Neutral IP Regime: Some Reflections
Our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, Balu Nair, sent us this piece below for Women’s Day a couple of weeks ago. This is his first submission for the fellowship. This piece titled Women on Top: How these...
View ArticleSpicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: Union Budget 2016- An analysis from an IP...
In post, Ritvik Kulkarni our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant brings us his analysis of this year’s Union Budget. This is Ritvik’s third submission for the fellowship. Union Budget 2016: The Finance...
View ArticleSpicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: Union Budget 2016- An analysis from an IP...
This is the second part of Ritvik’s two part post on the analysis of the 2016 budget. Union Budget 2016: The Finance Minister proposes Tax Sops on IP exploitation and Sobs on R&D Expenditure...
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Essel Propack v. Essel Kitchenware (Bombay HC): Wilful delay in taking action...
As the law stands, delay on part of the defendant, attempting to dislodge a suit for infringement, and systemic delays inherent in the judicial system, cannot be used against a plaintiff who is...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (14-20 March 2016)
Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight was our continuing coverage of the Indian government’s private assurances to US industry players that the Patent Office would no longer issue compulsory...
View ArticlePiccadily Agro Industries v. Ashok Narwal : Delhi High Court on Cause of...
This week Rahul Bajaj, our first Spicy IP fellow for this year, analyses the recent Delhi High Court judgment in Piccadily Agro Industries Ltd. v. Ashok Narwal and Anr. As we’ve noted on this blog...
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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: Biopiracy in the context of Plunder of Wheat in...
In this post Parth Singh, discusses issues surrounding biopiracy in light of the recent order of the Supreme Court in Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology & Anr. V Union of India....
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Busting the Drug Mafia: Commerce Min Responds on CL Assurance
The storm over the Indian government’s “private assurances” to the American industry groups continues to rage, even as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a press release last night. Its...
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Karnataka HC Stays Government Order Fixing Trait Value on Licensing of Bt Cotton
The author of this post is Rahul Bajaj, our first SpicyIP Fellow for 2016-17. In what will come as a huge relief to agricultural biotechnology companies, the Karnataka High Court has stayed the Central...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (21st March – 27th March)
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week ! Our Highlight of the week was definitely Balaji’s post, where he delved into the recent controversy surrounding the Government’s alleged ‘private reassurances’ to the...
View ArticleSpicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: MSF’s pneumonia vaccine patent challenge and its...
In this post Swati Muthukumar, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant discusses MSF’s challenge to Pfizer’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in India. Swati is in her fifth year at NLS, Bangalore. This is...
View ArticleSpicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: Indian Patent Office is not a Scientific and...
In this post Vasundhara Majithia, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant discusses the need to recognise the Indian Patent Office as a scientific and technical organisation in light of the Ministry of...
View ArticleBreaking News: Delhi High Court Refuses to Stay Anti-Competitive...
In a fairly exhaustive and well reasoned decision, Justice Vibhu Bakhru ordered today that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) can continue its investigation into Ericsson’s alleged anti...
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SpicyIP Events: First Annual Roundtable on Innovation, Intellectual Property...
SpicyIP is happy to announce that the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property & Competition (CIIPC), National Law University- Delhi is hosting its first Annual Roundtable on Innovation,...
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SpicyIP Events: Join the International Trademark Association (INTA) in...
This post has been authored by Gauri Kumar, India Consultant, International Trademark Association. This May, the global IP community will convene in Orlando, Florida for the 138th Annual Meeting of the...
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GSK announces decision to license anti-cancer patents to Medicines Patent Pool
Global pharma major GlaxoSmithKline has announced a change in policy that will doubtless benefit large portions of the patient population in low- and middle-income countries. In a statement on its...
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Specialised IP Courts: A Global Perspective from the ICTSD
In a number of earlier posts (here, here, here and here), I tackled the issue of specialised IP courts in India. All of these were part of a more comprehensive piece for the ICTSD which just released...
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