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Hear From Our Fellows 2017-18!
Wondering if it’s worth applying for the SpicyIP Fellowship? Hear from our current batch of Fellows on their experience so far. Their words are sure to dispel all your doubts. Here’s what they’ve to...
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Dial B For “Bonafide” Patent Working: Noble Natco vs Ignoble Counsel?
Did you ever think that Natco would oppose patent working disclosure norms? After all, they benefitted from it when they applied for India’s first compulsory license. And used Bayer’s patent...
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Delhi HC Vacates Ex-Parte Interim Injunction After Seven Years
Last month, the Delhi High Court through Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva vacated an ad-interim injunction granted in favour of ‘Three-N-Products’ (hereinafter, plaintiff) against two defendants back in March,...
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Advocates v. Patent Agents: A new case before the Madras High Court
Image from here The ToI recently reported that Madras based advocate Sanjay Gandhi has sued the Controller General of Patents before the Madras High on the grounds despite being “entitled to appear...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 4 – 10)
We’ve had quite an eventful week at the blog – Prof. Basheer brought us the thematic highlights of this week with updates on the proceedings of the Patent Working PIL instituted by him before the Delhi...
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Novex muzzled by Bombay High Court in a recent threats action by Gulraj Hotels
Image from here In a recent order, dated February 9, 2019; Justice S.J. Kathawalla has restrained Novex Communications from taking any coercive action against Gulraj Hotel which filed a threats action...
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When Settled Canons of Law and Law of Precedents Go for a Toss: Issue of...
India is a Constitutional democracy. The principles of Constitutionalism pervade the Indian polity. Constitutionalism encompasses rule of law, independence of judiciary and separation of powers; the...
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In this post, I shall chronologically set out the updates pertaining to Section 31D: I. In Inderjit Singh & Anr v/s Union of India & ors [CWP- 21945/2016], the Punjab & Haryana High Court...
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And the Wind Invented the Windmill
We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Achille Forler, Advisor to the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS). After graduating in Graphic Arts, Achille studied Indian Culture (M.A.) and...
View ArticleDelhi High Court on Interim Licence under Section 31D of Copyright Act, 1957
[I had covered the developments here and here.] As stated earlier, Saregama India Ltd and Super Casettes Industries Pvt Ltd, before the Delhi High Court, challenged the order dated 10.04.2017 passed by...
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DishTV vs. TVAddons: A Prognosis of Achievable Outcomes – Part I
We are pleased to bring to you a two-part guest post by Himanshu Arora. Himanshu is an IP lawyer practicing at the High Courts of Delhi and Punjab & Haryana and the District Courts at Amritsar. In...
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DishTV vs. TVAddons: A Prognosis of Achievable Outcomes – Part II
In the Part I of this two-part guest post, Himanshu had given a brief background about the parties involved and the subject-matter of the case followed by the discussion on the prima facie validity of...
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And Now, ISRA’s Sanjay Tandon Accuses Us at SpicyIP of Being in the Pockets...
Image from here We received a comment a few days ago on one of my earlier posts, from Sanjay Tandon who claims to be CEO, Co-Founder, Managing Director etc. etc. of the Indian Singers Rights...
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SpicyIP Events: Conference on ‘Back to Basics: The Role of Property in the IP...
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC) at National Law University Delhi and the Centre for Protection of...
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SpicyIP Events: 7th Annual IP Teaching Workshop, 2018 [NLU Delhi, March 24]
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC) in association with National Academy of Law Teaching is organising the 7th Annual IP Teaching...
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Patent Working PIL (Update): Court Clarifies Patent “Licensing”...
(This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer) Last week, we brought to you news of yet another well reasoned and lucid order from a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court (comprising...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 11 – 17)
We’ve had a busy week at the blog this week, with several guest contributors and interesting discussions on our comments threads too. The week’s thematic highlight is Mathews three-part post analyzing...
View ArticleA Note on Ansari Bilal Ahmadlal Mohd vs Shafeeque Ahmed Mohammad Sayeed (Bom HC)
This judgment helps to us to have a quick revision of settled legal principles vis-a-vis interim relief in trademark infringement suits. Firstly, in case of interim reliefs, the extent of interference...
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Has IPRS Set the Stage for a Battle with Apple, YouTube, Reliance Jio, Airtel...
Image from here Last week, Gulveen Aulakh of the Economic Times broke the news that the recently re-registered copyright society Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) has written to Indian telecom...
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A Wyeth Blooper Gives An Insight Into How Pharma Companies Calculate Sales...
Image from here As the Delhi High Court continues with the hearings over the Patent Office’s implementation of Section 146 of the Patents Act, we came across an interesting tidbit of information on how...
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