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TataSky v. YouTube – Fuzzy Signals on the Protection of TPMs
Source: xkcd.com/956/ In one of the first cases of its kind in India, YouTube was recently taken to Court by TataSky for hosting videos that taught people how to circumvent the encryption on the...
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SpicyIP Events: ARCIALA’s IPScholars Asia Conference
We are happy to announce that The Advanced Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA), School of Law, Singapore Management University has put out a call for papers for its...
View ArticleSpicyIP Jobs: Research Fellow at ARCIALA, SMU (School of Law)
SpicyIP is happy to announce an exciting opportunity for scholars interested in working on Asian and comparative IP law: the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia...
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ET invites comments on an article on GM technology licensing in India
The Economic Times has invited public comments on an article, titled “GoI must not interfere between GM technology providers and licensees”, published in yesterday’s edition of the newspaper. This...
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The “Sun Control” Mark
Given that most of today’s judges grew up in the era of Amitabh’s ‘Angry Young Man’ and laconic western protagonists, it is rather strange to see so many judgments play such a significant role in...
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Woman fills up museum crossword art work and claims copyright!
The crossword in question What started off as an innocuous day out at the museum turned out to be a not-so-happy rendezvous with avant garde art for a 90 year old woman in Germany. While modern art can...
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ISRA’s dubious victory before the Delhi High Court
On August 12, 2016 Justice S. Murlidhar of the Delhi High Court passed a short 8 page final judgment restraining a Delhi food establishment from infringing the performing rights being administered by...
View ArticleBlast from the Past: Krishna Sobti v Amrita Pritam
In this post, we revive an earlier series initiated by Prashant Reddy titled “Blast from the Past”. Read here, here, here and here. No discussion of Indian literature is complete without the mention of...
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Its all about the shape – design infringement and passing off
Just like other aspects of civilisation and life, shapes too had humble beginnings. The clean and simple – circles, squares and triangles, the most basic shapes of our planet, laid the foundation for...
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The curious case of Peter Doig: Can authors disavow their works?
Last month, news emerged of a bizarre case in New York in which Peter Doig, a renowned painter denied having created the above painting. He didn’t have much to say when he was shown a picture of it –...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 15-21)
Our thematic highlight of this week is a 2-part post by Balaji in which he analyzes the consequences of 3 TRIPS+ free trade agreements for India from the vantage point of IP and the digital economy:...
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Bottling Fame, Brewing Glory and Taxing the Transfer of IP Licences
A recently pronounced Bombay HC judgement is the latest in a long line of cases dealing with the taxation of licences to use intangible property, with the preceding chapter being written by the same...
View ArticleA case study which deals with trademark infringement: Aditya Birla Nuvo...
At the outset, this (uncomplicated) case law (Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited vs R.S. Sales Corporation & Anr on 28 July 2016) doesn’t set out or provide clarification on any point of law. Further, this...
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Busting a Baloney: Merely Viewing Blocked Websites Will Not Land You in Jail!
Fear-mongering and the Internet often go hand in hand. Throw in Bollywood, copyright and blocking John Doe orders and you have exciting drama as well! One that played out to the hilt yesterday, as a...
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National IPR Policy: Taking IPR to the grassroots
Post the creation of the National IPR Policy in May 2016, a series of road shows were conducted in June – July 2016 by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP). These roadshows were...
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Of Bollywood “Blocks” and John Does: Towards an IP Ombudsman?
In a recent piece in the Wire, I develop the idea of a “neutral IP ombudsman” for “blocking” disputes. For background, do see our posts on the various John Doe orders and the corrective balance being...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Patent Engineers, Agents and Attorneys at Clairvolex
SpicyIP is happy to announce that Clairvolex, as part of its global expansion, is setting up an Expert Center (EC) in Bangalore, India and is looking to hire patent engineers, patent agents and patent...
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Injured Induna Comes to Patel’s Court in John Doe Matter
In some of our earlier posts, we have covered the traumatic story of Mr. Adarsh Agarwal, the proprietor of the website ‘www.induna.com’ that was blocked under the Bombay High Court’s John Doe order in...
View ArticleEnding Monsanto’s Monopoly in the Development of Pest-Resistant Cotton: is...
As our readers would recall, the Government has been taking a number of robust (and some would say heavy-handed) measures to control the price of Monsanto’s Bt cotton, which, until recently, was...
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The Copyrightability of Tattoos (I): Does Artist Interest trump the Right to...
In January this year, the creators of wildly popular NBA 2k16 videogame were dragged to court by Solid Oak Sketches – the exclusive owner and licensor of the copyright to tattoos on the bodies of NBA...
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