Moving past some starting trouble
As we get more cozy with our new website, we’ve recently discovered that there were still a few issues with parts of it. It appears that though the website has been getting entries in both the SpicyIP...
View ArticleGuest Post: Copyright Aspects in Open World Gaming
In his fourth submission to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Thomas Vallianeth brings us an interesting post discussing the copyright issues that arise in Open World Gaming - the phenomenon of...
View ArticleNo IPR protection for modern yoga techniques
Early this month, the Delhi High Court in the case of Institute for Inner Studies v. Charlotte Anderson discussed the important issues of whether yoga asanas or Pranic Healing are entitled to copyright...
View ArticleEvent: Pharma IPR Conference, February 2014
Pharma IPR is a very targeted conference focusing on patent related matters for Pharma and Biopharma Industry across the globe. The date and venue for the conference is: 26 to 28 February, 2014 at...
View ArticleAnnouncing the SpicyIP Fellows for 2014 – 2015!
With nearly 70 entries over the course of 6 weeks, from 14 different law schools, we’ve had a terrific response to our call for applications to the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship! Of all the submitted...
View ArticleGIPC IP Index: India ranked last
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Centre recently released the latest ‘International IP Index’. As per this report, India has been placed last in terms of protection and...
View ArticleApplications for the 2014 – 15 LAMP Fellowship are now open
Legislative Assistant to Members of Parliament Fellowship 2014 – 15 PRS is offering an exciting fellowship, please read the announcement below for more details: Last for submitting applications:...
View ArticleNational Program on Technology Enhanced Learning- India’s Contribution to the...
The National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (“NPTEL”) is an initiative led by seven IIT’s and IISc, and funded by the Government of India. The website provides access to web and video-based...
View ArticleIPAB sets aside patent office order refusing crystalline form patent of...
Ever filed a patent application and have a rejection issued without any explanations? With the recent IPAB order, hopefully we won’t be having more of that anymore. In this case the patentee/appellant...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: ‘Mad Men’ Litigation settled
In my earlier post almost a year back, I had reported that yesteryear model Gita Hall May had sued Lionsgate, the production company of the hugely popular TV show ‘Mad Men’ in the Los Angeles Superior...
View ArticleAuto Tuned Videos and Copyright
Satire on YouTube seems to be stirring up quite the controversy. Some time ago, it was regarding the spoof of Dhoom 3 which YRF had objected to, on which we carried a post which observed how parodies...
View ArticleNUJS Law Review Special Issue on the Copyright Amendment Act: Read it to...
This is a slightly belated notification but the Copyright Conference of 2012, has culminated in the publication of a special issue on the recent copyright amendments (Vol. 5 2012 No. (4) NUJS Law Rev.)...
View ArticleSpicyIP Events: Managing IP’s “India IP and Innovation Forum 2014″
We are very pleased to bring to you information regarding regarding Managing IP’s India IP and Innovation Forum 2014 scheduled to be held on February 26 at the Le Meridian Hotel in New Delhi. The...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Shruti Hassan contemplating legal action for dubbing her film...
Shruti Hassan, who played the role of a Karachi call girl in the controversial film D-day directed by Nikhil Advani has stated that she is contemplating legal action. This decision of Ms. Hassan came...
View ArticleNationSpeak at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents
“A patent is a social product and has a social function”, stated India’s speaker to drive home the point of equitable access to healthcare at the recently concluded 20th Session of the WIPO Standing...
View ArticleRoche sues Biocon and Mylan over biosimilar version of Herceptin;Delhi HC...
Trastuzumab/Herceptin has been controversy’s child (please read my previous posts on Herceptin here and here.) Initially it was considered for Compulsory license u/s 92 and then last year in a very...
View ArticleCareful: Requests for payments of fee may be a scam
One of my firm’s – Saikrishna & Associates clients, received a letter sometime back, requesting them to pay a certain sum of money for getting their patent application “registered at the European...
View ArticleThe Indian Perspective: Submission made to USITC’s investigation into the...
In pursuance to its investigation into India’s trade, investment and industrial policies, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) is holding a public hearing on February 13, 2014. Professor...
View ArticleWeekly Review (2-8 Feb, 2014)
The past week was a fairly interesting week in the world of IP and we carried a number of posts reporting some of these developments. The first post of the week was a post by one of our new Fellows –...
View ArticleEBC granted injunction against Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters for...
The District Judge of Lucknow has granted a temporary injunction in favour of EBC restraining Thomson Reuters Corporation from infringing their copyright in their law reporter Supreme Court Cases (SCC)...
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