Ghost Post: The myriad ways in which the Copyright Amendment Act, 2012 is...
We have an interesting ‘ghost post’ by a lawyer who practices with an IP law firm on the various ways in which the Copyright Amendments of 2012 can be circumvented. SpicyIP has previously covered some...
View ArticleINTA’s 136th Annual Meeting
The International Trademark Association’s (INTA) 136th Annual Meeting will be held in Asia for the first time – in Hong Kong SAR, China on May 10-14, 2014. The Annual Meeting has made its mark as the...
View ArticlePatent analytics apps and an infographic of the Indian Patent System
Rubal Walia from Relecura sends us the infographic pictured below, on the state of Indian Patents by looking over data (sources mentioned in the note at the bottom) from the last few years. Their...
View ArticleAbhay Deol’s courageous stand against T-Series prompts Artists to defy...
Indian music artists have found support in Abhay Deol in their fight against exploitative record labels. Abhay Deol is a Bollywood actor known for his offbeat roles. Last week, the actor put up a...
View ArticleScreenager versus Kerala’s Bizarre Copyright Law
[Edit: The original post had erroneously stated that the arrest of the teenager was carried out under The Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act 2007. The author regrets that the title may have...
View Article‘Basmati’ from Central India – Culinary heresy?
As we had reported earlier on the blog (click here), the Registry for Geographical Indications (G.I.), has ordered the Agricultural and Processed Foods Export Development Authority (APEDA) to amend its...
View ArticleUpdate: Nexavar only for western patients
On January 21st, 2014 reporter Ketaki Gokhale of Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a shocking statement by Bayer Chief Executive Officer Marijn Dekkers as part of their story on drug patents and prices....
View ArticleGuest Post: International Patent Filing Strategy Survey for Patent Attorneys...
One of our regular readers, a patent agent and law student from US has sent in a request for our patent attorney readers. Please see as below: Dear SpicyIP readers: A team of law students, who are...
View ArticleNot so FRANDly! CCI orders another Ericsson investigation on complaint by Intex
Another investigation has been ordered by the CCI into Ericsson’s anti competitive licensing of its Standard Essential Patents (‘SEP’). The present investigation has been clubbed with the investigation...
View ArticleProfessional Negligence and Attorney Liability?
A recent case raises serious issues around patent attorneys and professional negligence, the biggest elephant in the room that not many have spoken about till date. To what extent should a patent...
View ArticleHerceptin’s biosimilar: off patent and still expensive. What now?
The access-to-medicines folks as well as Big Pharma backers will want to take note of the latest ‘issue’ arising in the pharmaeutical pricing arena. As we had reported earlier last year, Roche had...
View ArticleAlmost two years later, India’s new copyright law makes no difference to...
Almost two years after it was enacted by Parliament, the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 has proved to be quite a non-starter due to both the incompetence and impotence of all major stakeholders....
View ArticleA few last words & a goodbye
After almost 7 years, 600+ posts and the better part of my twenties, I’ve decided to call it a day and step down from Spicy IP. The reason for this being that I’m finding it quite hard to balance...
View ArticleGuest Post: Property Rights in the Virtual World
After a brief hiatus, we come back to our 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. In this post, Deepshikha Malhotra brings us an interesting post on property rights the virtual world! This is...
View ArticleGuest Post: Don’t copy my architecture
Shashank Mangal, a 4th year student from ILS law college, Pune brings us a point by point discussion of copyright in architecture under the Copyright Act. This is Shashank’s first submission to the 2nd...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Expanding Scope of Performers’ Rights
Shashank Mangal brings us his 2nd post in our fellowship series. This post questions the scope of performers’ rights and raises some interesting questions regarding the same. This is Shashank’s 2nd...
View ArticleGuest Post: One Work, Multiple Protections- Dilemma of IP
In his third entry to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Shashank Mangal looks into the dilemmas of what type of protection one ought to seek for a particular subject matter that may be eligible...
View ArticleGuest Post: 3D Printing and Indian Copyright Law
We move into the last few entries to our Fellowship applicant series with this post by Thomas J. Vallianeth, a third year student at NLU-Jodhpur. In this post he takes us through the copyright...
View ArticleGuest Post: Deconstructing the Facebook Privacy Notice – Copyright and...
In case you’ve ever wondered about Facebook’s terms of use regarding content you put on it, this guest post by Thomas J. Vallianeth will be of interest to you. This is Thomas’ second entry to our...
View ArticleGuest Post: Dow Jones and MSM Resurrect the Hot News Doctrine
Thomas J. Vallianeth brings us his third guest post in our SpicyIP Fellowship series with this post on the Hot News doctrine. In this post Thomas looks over a recent suit filed by Dow Jones & Co...
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