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The Copyrightability of Tattoos (II): Does Artist Interest trump the Right to...
In my earlier post, I briefly outlined the issues associated with copyrighting tattoos specifically in the light of the use of the human body as a medium of expression. In this post, I will attempt to...
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Karnataka High Court: Appeal on Bt cotton price control
As readers may already be aware, Monsanto owns a patent for a synthesised genetic sequence of select genes of Bacillus thuringiensis which when inserted into cotton seeds renders the seeds immune to...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (August 21–August 27)
As always, it’s been a busy week at Spicy IP, folks and it’s time again to reflect on the eventful week for the blog and the IP world. This week’s thematic highlight is Balaji Subramanian’s deep and...
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Call for Papers: IJIPL 2015-2016
The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law is now accepting submissions for its 2015-16 edition. Details are as below: Call for Papers Vol. VIII, 2015-2016 The Indian Journal of Intellectual...
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Parliamentary Committee slams the Department of Pharmaceuticals over Drug Prices
Amidst claims of the NDA Government to have brought more generic drugs under pricing control, the Parliamentary Committee on Government Assurances (PCGA) submitted its report on 11th August this year...
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The Narrow Gets Narrower: The Tale of Artistic Works and Exceptions
The conundrum posed by the varying protection accorded by the Designs Act, 2000 and Copyright Act, 1957 for artistic expressions, especially industrial machinery, and the attempts by litigants to...
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The NSAI’s new IP strategy in its dispute with Monsanto
The National Seed Association of India (NSAI), comprising mostly of Indian seed companies, has published on its website a series of documents outlining its IP strategy in its dispute with Monsanto. As...
View ArticleMadras HC grants John Doe for ‘A Flying Jatt’, orders the blocking of 830 sites
A few days after we saw misleading blocking messages from ISP’s, the Madras High Court passed a John Doe order on Wednesday, the 24th of August, blocking a whopping 830 sites that allegedly hosted...
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Heil Good Trademarks!
We are happy to bring to you a very interesting guest post by one of our regular guest bloggers, Harshavardhan Ganesan. Harshavardhan is currently a foreign intern at Kelley Drye and Warren LLP,...
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Cipla Withdraws Revocation Plea for Novartis’ Onbrez Patents, Informs DIPP in...
Many of our readers may have been wondering about the status of the application that Cipla made to DIPP in October, 2014 for revocation of Novartis’ patents for the drug Onbrez. DIPP’s recent reply to...
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The End of the Dishoom Saga: Better “Blocking” Message and Neutral Ombudsman
By the looks of it, the Dishoom John Doe saga appears to have come to a close. Well almost! In an order passed three days ago, Justice Patel asked all ISPs to replace a faulty error message that caused...
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When Central Perk came to town : The Legality of a TV show themed restaurant
In a dream come true for every crazed fan of the unforgettable 90’s TV show, it appears that two ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S.’ themed ‘Central Perk’ cafes, both named after the soap, have popped up in Kolkata and...
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Gene Patents and Plant Varieties: NSAI v. Monsanto
Image from here In an earlier post, accessible here, I had explained the NSAI’s new IP strategy in the ongoing dispute with Monsanto. To briefly recap, the technology involved is Monsanto’s patent over...
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The Sub-Standard Drug Problem: A Report Explaining the Failures of India’s...
Image from here Although this blog concentrates mainly on IP issues, we occasionally do cover drug regulatory issues. The state of drug regulation in India, as most of you will know, is quite alarming....
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 28 – September 3)
We have two topical highlights this week: Inika’s report on Madras HC’s latest John Doe order and Pankhuri’s brilliant report on Cipla’s withdrawal of its revocation application for Novartis’ Onbrez....
View ArticleFarmers’ Collective Reportedly Obtains Trademark Protection for Organic Spices
Even as the Indian Government has taken a number of substantive steps over the last two decades to put in place a robust legal framework to enable communities to protect their intellectual property...
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Dealing with Pirates the Smart Way- The Joker Model
We are all too familiar with the spectrum of arguments in relation to piracy. While some push for a position of copyright maximalism, there are others who shrug off the very idea/ utility of...
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Puzzling Patents
We are happy to bring to you an interesting guest post by Jasneet Kaur. Jasneet is an independent legal practitioner with extensive experience in trade mark law, having worked with the IPR divisions of...
View ArticleDart Industries Inc. & Ors. v Techno Plast & Ors: Resolving the...
The apparent conflict between the Copyright Act and Designs Act has led to much litigation in recent times which we have covered extensively on the blog here, here, here and here. This conflict arises...
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Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership headed?
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted. The US-led TPP and China-led RCEP were always touted...
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