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How the Internet broke after losing a ‘left-pad’
Around two months ago, thousands of applications ran into errors. All due to the actions of one man. Over the course of this piece, I will be aiming to do three things: Help you understand how one...
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Supreme court on decriminalising defamation – the long and short of it
On May 13, 2016, by way of a 268 page judgement (as uploaded on the SC website), the Supreme Court not only upheld the constitutional validity of criminalizing defamation under the Indian Penal Coe,...
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Hep C Drug Pricing: New Study finds Sofosbuvir globally unaffordable
Imagine waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Your skin looks yellow and you start feeling blue. Abdominal pains make you cringe, despite never having binged. The family doctor rules out jaundice and...
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Rectangles with rounded corners – Caltech, the newest entrant to Apple’s...
“It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners,” Samsung said in a statement following the 2012 verdict that went against...
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India’s New IP Policy: A “Bare” Act?
I assumed the Hindu op-ed would be the last of my writings on that delightful document titled the “National IPR policy”; one that spewed out many a seductive IP slogan. Unfortunately, that was not to...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review ( 29th May – 4th June )
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week Our SpicyIP Highlight of the Week was definitely the guest post by Harshavardhan Ganesan – an LLM student at the University of California, Berkeley – where he discusses...
View ArticleGovernment Withdraws Guidelines Fixing FRAND Terms on the Licensing of Bt Cotton
As our readers would recall, the Ministry of Agriculture had issued a set of guidelines with far-reaching implications on May 18th, requiring patentees such as Monsanto to provide access to their GM...
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Plain Packaging: A Reality for India?
There have been some interesting new developments in the already controversial plain packaging issue. Simply put, this controversy revolves around the proposal to introduce bland, colourless packaging...
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Judging Judges: Reviewing Justice Singh’s IP Jurisprudence
In this guest post, Prashant Reddy reflects on the major decisions by Justice Manmohan Singh of the Delhi High Court in the field of intellectual property law and on the larger question of criteria for...
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International Patent Drafting Competition to be held by IIPRD
SpicyIP is very happy to announce that the Institute of Intellectual Property Research and Development (IIPRD) is soon to conduct the International Patent Drafting Competition (IPDC) 2016! The IPDC has...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (5-11 June)
Our Highlight of the Week for the last week is, quite definitely, Prashant Reddy’s excellent, detailed post reflecting on the Delhi High Court’s Justice Manmohan Singh’s major decisions and IP...
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Judging Judges (I): Whither Access to Law?
And finally, I give vent to my long held lament against diarrhoeal decisions! Decisions that ramble on for reams on end, and come at the cost of both legal logic and jurisprudential depth. Decisions...
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The not so happy stories e-books tell you
Standing out from the crowdThe rise of e-books in the past decade or so has brought about path breaking changes in the preferences of readers as well as in the way publishing industry does business...
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Subramanian Swamy and the Constitutionality of Copyright Criminalisation –...
(Summary: Lessons from Subramanian Swamy v. UoI -> constitutional validity of Goonda Acts -> interplay between freedom of speech and copyright law -> addressing the argument that copyright law...
View ArticleSubramanian Swamy and the Constitutionality of Copyright Criminalisation –...
(Summary: disproportionate criminal sanctions against copyright infringement seriously harm FoE interests -> to be constitutionally valid, copyright criminalisation must fall within the bounds of...
View ArticleWhy Stairway to Heaven Doesn’t Infringe Taurus Copyright: analysis & demo of...
Here’s a guest post on the Stairway to Heaven copyright litigation by Sean O’Connor. He is the Boeing International Professor at the University of Washington School of Law (Seattle). He is also Chair...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (11 June-18 June)
As to the Highlight of the Week, we were hard pressed to choose a winner and have a tie between Professor Shamnad Basheer’s timely and hard hitting take on the need to distinguish the merit of a...
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Pinocchio d’Pharma: False claims about Tarceva cost Genentech and OSI Pharma...
Pharmaceutical giants Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals LLC have coughed up $67 million to finally settle allegations against them under the US False Claims Act of 1863 (FCA). The United States...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit on Inquiry against IPRS: Commission of Inquiry is receiving...
As SpicyIP reported earlier, an Inquiry Officer was appointed to inquire into alleged irregularities in the Indian Performing Rights Society Limited. The Inquiry Officer is deemed to be a Commission of...
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Udta Punjab: An IP Controversy [Part I]
Amidst the censorship controversy that had already engulfed Udta Punjab, the movie was leaked online just two days before its scheduled release. What’s more, the leaked torrent bears the “for censor”...
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