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On Bt Cotton, FRAND Licensing and Recent Governmental Initiatives: Putting...
We are happy to bring to you a two part guest post by one of our former bloggers, Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai. Mrinalini is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and...
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On Bt Cotton, FRAND Licensing and Recent Governmental Initiatives: Putting...
In Part I of this guest post, Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai recommended against immediate incorporation of Bt technology into all cotton seeds (typical or hybrid) in India. In Part II of the post below,...
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SpicyIP Events: 5th Annual Global IP Conclave & Awards 2016, Mumbai
SpicyIP is happy to announce the 5th Annual Global Intellectual Property (IP) Conclave & Awards 2016 (GIPCA) that will take place on November 10 & 11, 2016 in Mumbai. GIPCA is an industry...
View ArticleStatutory Licensing Scheme under Copyright Act Made Applicable to Online...
In a significant development, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) issued an office memorandum (OM) earlier this week, bringing online broadcasting within the purview of the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 4-10)
The thematic highlight for the week is our former blogger Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai’s two part post (found here and here) on Bt Cotton licensing fee dispute and Prashant’s related post on the same...
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TPM Jurisprudence Going Awry – Reviewing the Delhi High Court’s Judgment in...
Image from here A couple of weeks ago, Kartik had written a detailed post on a judgment by the Delhi High Court in the case of Tata Sky v. YouTube. The facts of the case are quite simple. Tata Sky sued...
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Merck’s (Atomic Energy) Patent – Fizzles!!
We are happy to bring to you another guest post by Sribindu Chivukula. Sribindu graduated in Chemistry from State University of New York, Buffalo in the year 2012. She is a registered Indian patent...
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GM Mustard: Of the Lack of Transparency and ‘Confidentiality’ of Biosafety Data
The Central Information Commission (CIC) directed the Environment Ministry to release all data relating to the bio-safety of GM Mustard by an order in April following a RTI application filed by Ms....
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Yahoo’s Patent Application Denied Due to Section 3 (k)
Yahoo filed a patent application in 2007 for a method that scheduled the appearance of users’ online presence in an Instant Messaging (IM) application. Recently, it was turned down on grounds of...
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SpicyIP Event: IP Law Asia Summit 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
SpicyIP is pleased to announce the IP Law Asia Summit 2016 that will be taking place on October 24 & 25, 2016 at The Westin Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. IP Law Asia Summit is the premium...
View ArticleOpen Access IP Course Books
Case books and textbooks are expensive and often even unaffordable for students. What is appalling is where the money from these exorbitant rates go – not towards the publishing costs or author’s...
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The Naked Truth: An Expose on Big Pharma
Medecins Sans Frontiers (‘MSF’) new must-watch short film, The Naked Truth is hilarious, strongly worded, and to the point. In the video, MSF challenges Big Pharma’s age old claim of their medicines...
View ArticleBreaking News: Major Victory for Students and Educational Access in DU...
As many of you may have heard, the Delhi High Court just handed down a major IP verdict in the DU photocopy case. In a 94 page decision, the court (Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw) dismissed the suit of the...
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DU Photocopy Case: A Breakthrough in Indian Copyright Jurisprudence
Our readers will remember our homegrown version of the David and Goliath story: the case filed in 2012 by various publishers (OUP, CUP etc) against Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a small photocopy...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 11–17)
We’re still reeling from Justice Endlaw’s much awaited ruling in the DU Photocopy case on Friday, and this week’s highlight can’t be anything but our continuing coverage of the decision. Prof. Basheer...
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Counterview: The outcome of the DU photocopy case isn’t necessarily good news...
At the very outset let me congratulate Shamnad, Swathi Sukumar and the entire team who won against the publishers in the DU photocopy case that was decided on September 16, 2016. I do not agree with...
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Bollywood Now Frets over Intrusive Copyright Lawsuits- Calls for Stricter...
The who’s who of Bollywood have been constantly demanding stricter laws and heavier punishments for copyright infringement. Some have even gone to the extent of saying that supporting piracy is akin...
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Counterview – The DU Photocopy case – How wide should educational use...
Continuing from my last post on the role of publishers and the need to protect their copyrights, I will discuss Justice Endlaw’s judgment in the DU photocopy case, which he delivered 664 days after...
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“Made in India” Innovation Policy
We are happy to bring to our readers a guest post by two esteemed US law professors, Prof. Colleen V. Chien and Prof. Jorge L. Contreras. In this post they emphasize upon the need for data-driven IP...
View ArticleDomino Effect: Teva withdraws patent application in India after USPTO...
In a groundbreaking development, Israeli behemoth Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Teva) has suffered a third consecutive blow after the US Patent Office (USPTO) invalidated its third patent [U.S....
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