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The Indian Patent Office : Paralysed by Procedural Bottlenecks? (Part I)
(At the outset, I’d like to mention that a large portion of the content in this two part post has been based on information received from an unnamed source. The posts are representative of the state of...
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The Indian Patent Office : Paralysed by Procedural Bottlenecks? (Part II)
(In the first part to this post, I had discussed at length two particularly stubborn maladies that plague the administrative system of the Indian Patent office. In Part Two here, I discuss three more...
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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: No Revenue Earned from Government Content, says...
In this post our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, Inika Charles brings us the latest update on the case against the government alleging that government contracts with social networking sites involving...
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Spicy IP Fellowship 2016-17: Cartier International Ag vs. Gaurav Bhatia
In this post our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, Vasundhara Majithia, analyses the recent decision of the Delhi High Court in Cartier International Ag vs. Gaurav Bhatia. This is Vasundhara’s second...
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The Night of the Long Knives at the Indian Trade Mark Office
Ameet Datta, Partner at the IP firm Saikrishna & Associates, brings us a guest post on an alarming move from the Trade Mark Registry to deem lakhs of applications as abandoned in a single go. In...
View ArticleSpicyIP TidBit: NHRC asks Govt for clarification on (anti?)CL stance
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has on April 1, 2016 issued a press release expressing its apprehension over the India’s alleged promise to the US to refrain from issuing compulsory...
View ArticleSPICY IP Tidbit: DIPP Becomes the Chief IP Body: Copyrights and...
Vasundhara Majithia, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant brings us this breaking titbit on copyrights and semiconductors being brought under the ambit of the DIPP. In a move to consolidate all IP related...
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Giving Due Protection To Fictional Characters: The Possibility of ‘Copymark’
Our Spicy IP fellowship applicant Inika, brings us an interesting post on protecting fictional characters through copyright and trademark law. This is Inika’s third submission for the fellowship....
View ArticleSecuring the Independence of the Copyright Board on Firmer Legal Moorings:...
In a development that has sent constitutional law and IP nerds like yours truly into a tizzy, the Madras High Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Copyright Board (“the Board”) while striking...
View ArticleDelhi HC stays abandonment of TM applications [Tidbit]
Earlier this week, we’d carried a guest post by Ameet Datta which chronicled an inexplicable decision by the Trade Marks Registry to deem applications as abandoned on the ground of non-response to...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Journal of Intellectual Property Law (JIPL), Institute of...
Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat invites articles / research papers, case studies, and book reviews on the topics and themes of...
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Scotch Whisky GI Suit Settled: The Loss of a Landmark Ruling
In this post our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, Vasundhara Majithia discusses the recent Scotch Whisky GI decision. This is her fourth submission for the fellowship. “Too much of anything is bad, but...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Whatsapp introduces end-to-end encryption!
Inika Charles, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant brings us this interesting tidbit on Whatspp’s new end to end encryption. This is her fourth submission for the fellowship. In wake of the Apple v. FBI...
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Sports video clips and fair dealing: A premonition for India
In this post, Balu Nair our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant analyses the recent decision in England And Wales Cricket Board Ltd & Anor v Tixdaq Ltd & Anor [2016] EWHC 575 (Ch) and discusses what...
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DIPP’s Discussion Paper on Standard Essential Patents faces plagiarism...
We bring to you a guest post by Jithin Saji Isaac on certain portions of the DIPP’s recent Discussion Paper being plagiarized. Last year saw a splurge of plagiarism reports including academic...
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Win-Medicare Private Limited v. Galpha Laboratories Limited
In this post, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant Vasundhara Majithia analyses the recent decision in Win-Medicare Private Limited v. Galpha Laboratories Limited . It is a well-accepted proposition that...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (27th March – 9th April)
SpicyIP Highlight (this post has been co-authored by Kartik, Balaji and I) Our Highlight of the Week was definitely the post by one of our fellowship applicants – Swati Muthukumar– where she examines...
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Keep the Copyright Office with HRD
We are happy to bring our readers a Guest Post by Prashant Reddy, on the recent news regarding shifting the Copyright Office from the Ministry of Human Resources Development to the Department of...
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BDR, Lee Pharma decide not to pursue CL appeals
(Posted on behalf of Balaji) A Reuters report from earlier today, carried by newspapers such as Mint and The Hindu, states that generics manufacturers Lee Pharma and BDR have decided not to pursue...
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Can literary characters be copyrighted?: A Reformulation of the “Especially...
We bring to you a two part post by our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, Prateek Surisetti in which he analyses through US and Indian case law whether literary characters can be copyrighted. When can a...
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