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Can literary characters be copyrighted?: Criticism of the “Story Being Told”...
In this post Prateek discusses the “story being told test” and discusses copyrightability of characters in the Indian context. This is the second part of Prateek’s two part post on whether literary...
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Tidbit – Mumbai HC Denies Interim Injunction Against ‘Fan’
In an order dated 11th April 2016, the Mumbai High Court refused to impose an interim injunction against the screening of the Shahrukh Khan-starrer movie, Fan. The ad-interim application was made in...
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WIPO report debunks link between Patents and Access to Medicines
This piece is authored by Rupali Samuel, Analyst, SpicyIP. WIPO published a report on 11th April 2016 titled “Patent-based Analysis of the World Health Organization’s 2013 Model List of Essential...
View ArticleDIPP responds to plagiarism allegations
We had earlier blogged about the DIPP paper on Standard Essential Patents and their availability on FRAND terms facing plagiarism allegations following a Facebook post by Dr. Arul Scaria. The DIPP has...
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Gufic Private Limited and Anr. Versus Vasu Healthcare Limited
In this post Rahul Bajaj, discusses the recent judgment in Gufic Private Limited and Anr. Versus Vasu Healthcare Limited . There are few greater joys in the life of an IP enthusiast than reading an...
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Welcoming our Second SpicyIP Fellow This Year
After Rahul Bajaj, I have great pleasure in welcoming our second SpicyIP fellow for this year: Ritvik Kulkarni. We picked him based on the commendable quality of his writings and analysis, evidenced in...
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Latest RCEP IP Chapter leak reveals more cause for worry
“Sunshine is the best Disinfectant”. Perhaps time to bring this out from under the covers? Last night, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) managed to leak yet another updated version of the IP...
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Apocalyptic Arbitration of IP Disputes?
And Justice Patel holds sway yet again with his robust reasoning and formidable flair! Ruling (in effect) that: Legal claims arising from IP licensing (and other commercial) transactions are...
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SpicyIP Events: Conference on WTO Dispute Settlement- Between Honest...
The Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi is organising an international Conference on “WTO Dispute Settlement: Between Honest Admiration and Candid Criticism”. The...
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Shiva Ayyadurai: The Inventor of Email?
The death of Ray Tomlinson, also known as the ‘inventor of email’, last month brought to the forefront once again the long running efforts of Mumbai born Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai to be recognised as...
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Lessons from Xiaomi’s Patent Portfolio Expansion
In this post, Balu Nair, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant discusses Xiaomi’s recent patent portfolio expansion strategy and compares it with the approach adopted by Indian smart phone manufacturers....
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Chitra Jagjit Singh v IPRS
In this post Vasundhara Majithia, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant discusses the recent decision in Chitra Jagjit Singh v The Indian Performing Rights Society in which the IPRS was restrained from...
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Epic secrets untold: TCS told?
Recently, a US jury found Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tata America International Corp guilty of stealing trade secrets and confidential information from Epic Systems, an American company. The...
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G.I. Joe of India’s Geographical Indications
In this post, Balu Nair, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant profiles the winner of the National Intellectual Property Award, 2016, Ganesh Hingmire and his contributions to the field of GIs. In an...
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Will the Stairway to Heaven Case Pave the Way for the Highway to Hell for...
This post is authored by Rahul Bajaj, SpicyIP Fellow 2016-17. One of the wisest judges of the 20th century, Judge Learned Hand, once famously observed: “It must be remembered that while there are an...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (10th – 24th April)
This review is brought to you by Rahul Bajaj, SpicyIP Fellow 2016-17. SpicyIP Highlight Our highlight of the week definitely was a two-part post from our SpicyIP fellowship applicant, Prateek...
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DHC rules that Ericsson concealed relevant information in Xiaomi matter –...
On December 9, 2014 we had informed our readers that the Delhi High Court (DHC) had granted an interim injunction against Xiaomi. The injunction was later modified by an order of the Division Bench of...
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Choco Wars: The Trademark Menace- Part I
In this two part blog post Prateek Surisetti, our Spicy IP Fellowship applicant, discusses whether companies can trademark colours. In this two part post, I will discuss the problems with allowing...
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Choco Wars: The Trademark Menace – Part II
This is the second part of Prateek’s two part post on whether colours can be trademarked. In Part I, I had written about the problems of allowing trade marks of colours in the abstract (multiple...
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IP lawyer copies IP lawyer, on copying!
“Who watches the Watchmen”. Image from here [This post has been authored by Gopika and is being posted on her behalf]. [Update: We have an update to the post, as described at the bottom of the post]....
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