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Does the Copyright Act Stand in the Way of Access to Legislations? : PIL...
A way out finally? Image from here It is no secret that the governments in India, both Union and State, have a dismal record in maintaining an authentic and easy to access database of legislations and...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 17-23)
Merry Christmas to all our readers! We’ve had an exciting week at the blog, with some major developments breaking on the blog: The topical highlight for the week is Prashant’s post on IPRS’s...
View ArticlePart II: Seizure of Medicines In Transit #EU Law, TRIPS, Doha Declaration & GATT
In Part I, we discussed a WHO Discussion Document, along with broad issues at play, regarding seizures of in-transit medicines. Over the course of this post, we will be covering the following: I. The...
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2017 Asian Edition of WIPO-WTO Colloquium Research Papers Launched
We are pleased to announce the recent launch of the 2017 and the first Asian edition of the ‘WIPO-WTO Colloquium Research Papers’, a joint publication by the WIPO Academy and the WTO Intellectual...
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PPL’s Festive Victories: Wins Favourable Orders from Both Madras & Bom HC
Keeping with what appears to have become a sort of tradition around this time of year, (see here) PPL recently kicked up quite the storm(s) at the High Courts of Madras and Bombay. Right before the...
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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2017
It is that time of the year again when we look back and take stock of all the significant IP developments that India witnessed during the year gone by. While it might be fair to say that this year was...
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Determination of FRAND royalty – TCL v. Ericsson LM
In my first posts in 2017, I had discussed various FRAND / SEP issues that were raised in the Qualcomm matters in Korea, and the US. I end the year with a similar post on FRAND issues. Together...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 24 – 30)
Prateek brought us this week’s thematic highlight, with the second part to his post on seizure of medicines in transit. In this part, he discusses two things in particular: (i) the EU law on seizure of...
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Justice Manmohan Singh Appointed as IPAB Chairperson under Potentially...
From here. After more than a year of speculation, retired Delhi High Court judge, Justice Manmohan Singh has been appointed as the Chairperson of the IPAB, presumably under the Tribunal, Appellate...
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Obsessing on Newness: The Death of Patents?
And it’s the dawn of another New Year. With “new” resolutions, resolves and all of that. But as a witty whatsapp forward notes, this one is rather special. For our millennium has just come of age!...
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SpicyIP Interview Series (1): Justice Prabha Sridevan on Life, Laughter and IP
As promised in our new year post on the relativity of “newness” (and the impending death of the patent system), we bring to you our freshly minted SpicyIP Interview series. And who better to kick this...
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Interim Arrangements : Frequent and Effective in SEP Litigation in India
We are pleased to bring to you our first guest post for the year by Ms. Punkhuri Chawla. Punkhuri is a Research Analyst at the Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO) at the O.P....
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‘BOOKMY’ Row – Delhi High Court Denies ‘bookmyshow’ an Interim Injunction...
The Delhi High Court in Bigtree Entertainment v Brain Seed Sportainment, recently denied the Plaintiffs, proprietors and owners of the website bookmyshow.com, an interim injunction against the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 31-January 6)
Hello, readers! The first week of the year has been quite exciting for the blog, with our year-end review of 2017 in Indian IP, Prof. Basheer kicking off SpicyIP’s Interview Series, and Prashant...
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SpicyIP Events:14th ITechLaw 2018 International India Conference, Bangalore
We are pleased to announce that ITechLaw is organising the 14th ITechLaw 2018 International India Conference from January 31, 2018 to February 2, 2018 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Bangalore. Register...
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Breaking News: Delhi High Court Asks Govt. for Status Report and Action Taken...
(This post has been authored by and published on behalf of Prof. Shamnad Basheer) Some great news at long last! Many of you may recall that along with the indomitable Sai Vinod, I’ve been trying to...
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Delhi High Court Makes Clear that Patent Working Information is not...
The Delhi high court order on “patent working” that we blogged about earlier is now available on our resource page here. As you can see, it is a very well reasoned order. And one of the few decisions...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 7 – 13)
Kick starting this week, Pankhuri announced the 14th ITechLaw 2018 International India Conference, to be organized by ITechLaw, from January 31, 2018 to February 2, 2018 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in...
View ArticleCreative Ways of Cutting Pendency: Abandonment vs Allowance?
The BRICS block (comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are a major force to contend with. For these countries are seen as potential world leaders (if not already). Along with...
View ArticleIn a Misguided Step, Supreme Court Stays Karnataka High Court Judgment on...
While few would disagree with the broad proposition that the commercial interest of profit-driven businesses has to be balanced with the interest of the public, the precise manner in which such a...
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