Hyperlinking Can Amount to Copyright Infringement, Rules CJEU
In a development that could have several far-reaching ramifications for the free flow of information in cyberspace in Europe and beyond, the Court of Justice for the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled...
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Breaking News: Setback with a Silver Lining- The Supreme Court in IPRS v...
In 2012, the Division bench of the Delhi High Court, in the matter of IPRS v Aditya Pandey & Ors. dismissed IPRS’s appeal against the order of a Single Judge who had held that radio stations etc.,...
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SpicyIP Events: International IP Skills Summit 2016 in Bangalore
We are happy to announce the International Intellectual Property Skills Summit 2016 (IIPSS), to be held on November 11 & 12, 2016 in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, and home to around 500+...
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Cropping Copyright: Education is not an Exception!
Since the passing of the landmark DU copyright verdict, much ink has been spilt…on myriad opinions and news reports. As with any other pathbreaking order, the decision met with both bouquets and...
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SpicyIP Events: Programme on “Access to Seeds: Building Capacities,...
We are glad to announce that the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) and the Indian Society for Agro Ecology (ISAE) & Third World Network (TWN) will be organising a five-day...
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DIPP Drags the Dasatinib Compulsory License Drama: A situation of “extreme...
As our readers may recall, in January 2013, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH) had recommended that DIPP declare that a compulsory license (CL) should be granted, under section 92 of the...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Research Fellows for Centre for Innovation, IP & Competition at...
National Law University, Delhi (University) is seeking to engage, on a contractual basis, three (03) full time Research Fellows (two positions in the area of law and one in the area of economics/...
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On the ‘Apocalyptic’ Arbitrability of Copyright Disputes: IPRS v....
The Bombay High Court, on the 31st of August, held in Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS) v. Entertainment Network, that the dispute at hand was not arbitrable as it related to an action in...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 18-24)
Both the thematic and topical highlights of the week have to be Prof. Basheer’s opinion piece in the DNA on the Photocopy case and Prashant’s two part piece providing a counter argument to Justice...
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Puzzling Patents Galore!
When Prof. Basheer kick-started the series on absurd patents, readers would have been curious to know how absurd can absurd get. The guest post by Jasneet Kaur proved that human imagination for the...
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Delhi HC formalizes injunction granted to 3M Innovative Properties against...
In a decision delivered on the 19th of September, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva of the Delhi High Court formalized an injunction that had been granted to 3M in 2014 in 3M Innovative Properties Ltd. v. Venus...
View ArticleThe deposit orders in Ericsson’s patent lawsuits are neither “middle-path”...
A few weeks ago we carried a guest post by Professors Chien and Contreras. It’s nice to see foreign academics engaging and writing on Indian IP law. Over the last year, a lot of foreign law professors...
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A Game of Puzzle Cubes – Justice Manmohan Singh Rules on Trade Dress in the...
We are happy to bring to you a guest post by Ryan Wilson. Ryan is an associate at Sujata Chaudhri IP Attorneys, dealing with the firm’s litigation matters in the field of trade mark and copyright. He...
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Industry and Impartiality!
We are pleased to present to you a guest post by Prof. Srividhya Ragavan on the issue of industry funding and IP research and conferences. This comes in response to a recent post by Prashant wherein...
View ArticleBreaking News: Publishers File Appeal in DU Copyright Case
As some of you may have heard, publishers filed their appeal today against Justice Endlaw’s pathbreaking decision in the DU copyright case. It runs into more than a thousand pages! As we noted earlier,...
View ArticleIndia’s Opening Statement at WIPO Meet
As the title explains quite succinctly, I write to bring to your notice India’s opening statement at the 56th Session of the Assemblies of Member States of WIPO. You can find the statement here. Prior...
View ArticleBreaking News: Publisher Push for Injunction in DU Copyright Case Fails!
After a heated round of arguments between lawyers for publishers (senior counsel, Sudhir Chandra Agrawal and Pratibha Singh briefed by Sai Krishna Associates) versus lawyers for DU (Saurabh Banerjee),...
View ArticlePatent Punches over Bt Cotton (Monsanto vs Nuziveedu): Bt it or Eat it?
My short take in the Hindu on the Bt Cotton Wars and the misplaced notion that the Plant Varieties Act trumps the Patents Act. I argue that both co-exist and one does not trump the other. Our previous...
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India Signs an MoU on Industrial Property Cooperation with Singapore
In a noteworthy development, a memorandum of understanding in the field of industrial property has been signed for the first time between India and Singapore on October 4, 2016, during the ongoing...
View ArticleBombay High Court Reaffirms the Need to Compare the Overall Impression...
As we’ve noted on this blog before (see here, here and here), it is a well settled legal principle that, in a suit in which the plaintiff claims relief for trademark infringement/passing off, the Court...
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