Bombay High Court Comes Down Heavily on Listed Pharma Company for Engaging in...
In a notable development, the Bombay High Court (“Court”) recently came down heavily on Syncom Formulation (India) Limited, a listed pharma company, for circumventing court orders and engaging in...
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Between a Croc and a Hard Place – Delhi High Court Rejects Interim Protection...
The Delhi High Court, in its judgement in Crocs v Liberty and Ors., on February 8, rejected Crocs Inc.’s applications for interim injunctions against the breach of copyright in their registered design....
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SpicyIP Events: FICCI Online Certificate Courses on Intellectual Property...
We are pleased to announce that registrations have commenced for March 2018 session of IPPro, IPComp and CCIPR courses offered by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). The...
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More Advocates Challenge the Requirement of a Patent Agent Examination to...
Image from here Since I wrote about Sanjay Gandhi’s recent petition before the Madras High Court where he sued the Controller General of Patents on the issue of advocates requiring to take the patent...
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Breaking news – Parliament repeals the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1999 and...
Image from here In a shocking piece of news, delivered to us by one of our former bloggers, Thomas Vallianeth, it appears that Parliament recently repealed the Copyright (Amendment), Act, 1999 and...
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Of Spicy Blogs and the Headline Skimmers
It appears that my last post on the repeal of the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1999 and Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 really stirred the copyright pot. The outpouring of outrage against the content of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 18 – 24)
Topical Highlight – Prashant reported on the recent repeal of the Copyright Amendment Acts of 1999 and 2012 by the Parliament. Setting the context with the help of certain case law and legislations,...
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6th SpicyIP Fellowship 2018-19: Application Deadline Extended to March 15, 2018
As announced last month, SpicyIP is inviting applications for the 6th SpicyIP Fellowship 2018-19. If you have an interest in IP law and love legal research and writing, look no further! Apply...
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Call for SpicyIP Research Fellows: Application Deadline Extended to March 15,...
As announced last month, this year apart from the (blogging) Fellows, SpicyIP is also looking for at least two (2) Research Fellows. If you have an interest in IP law and love legal research and...
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SpicyIP Events: Roundtable on Trademark Enforcement – Challenges &...
We are pleased to announce that K&S Partners, in collaboration with International Trademark Association (INTA), is organizing a roundtable on ‘Trademark Enforcement – Challenges &...
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Film Title Protection: Madras High Court Rejects Copyright Claim Over Film...
Image from here. A division bench of the Madras High Court, in its judgement in M/s Lyca Productions v J. Manimaran and Ors, delivered on the 22nd of February, overturned a single bench decision which...
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Creative Destruction at it’s Best: The Death of Manual Scavenging?
In a provocative address last year at IDIA’s annual conference, Magsaysay Award winner, Dr Bezwada Wilson rhetorically asked: How is it that we managed to send a mission (Mangalyaan) to Mars? And yet,...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 25 – March 3)
In case you missed out on this week’s post at SpicyIP, have no worries, here’s a roundup of the last weeks highlights. Our topical highlight of the week is my post on the Madras HC’s fairly...
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SpicyIP Ranked 3rd in List of Top Patent Blogs in the World
We are extremely delighted to inform our readers that SpicyIP has been ranked 3rd in a list of top patent blogs of 2018 published by James Yang on IPWatchdog earlier last month. This list is an update...
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Special Report: The Smoke & Mirrors Surrounding the Approval of Bedaquiline
Co-authored with Balaji Subramanian, 5th year student, NALSAR University of Law Prologue Bedaquiline Last Sunday, The Hindu ran a piece on its front page alleging that the government was not even...
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Patent Office Calls for Comments on Patent Working Disclosure and Form 27
(This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer) As reported last month, in our Patent Working PIL, the Delhi High Court asked the Government to submit an affidavit outlining the proposed...
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RTI Replies Reveal the Deal between Janssen and the Ministry of Health on...
Co-authored with Balaji Subramanian, 5th Year student NALSAR University of Law Bedaquiline Subsequent to our previous post, we got a copy of some of the correspondence between Janssen and the Ministry...
View ArticleIn a Well-Reasoned Judgment, Delhi High Court Rules in Plaintiff’s Favour in...
In a well-reasoned judgment issued recently, the Delhi High Court (“Court”) adjudicated upon a suit for patent infringement comprising three patents over insecticides and herbicides. The three patents...
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SpicyIP Events: 5th WTI – CWS Joint Academy on International Trade Law and...
We are pleased to announce that The World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland and the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, India will be conducting the 5th WTI...
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How does inclusion of patented drugs in a WHO EoI make them more affordable?
Over the last week, The Hindu has been reporting on the issue of access to two new TB drugs called bedaquiline and delaminid. As Balaji and I have pointed out in our last two posts on SpicyIP, there...
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