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Finally, The Hindu Acknowledges the Clinical Trials Issues Regarding New TB...
The Hindu published yet another story in today’s edition on the issue of access to the new TB drugs like bedaquiline and delaminid. We’ve been tracking The Hindu’s coverage of this issue on the blog...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4 – 10)
By way of a special report that I highly recommend to our readers, Prashant & Balaji brought us this week’s topical highlight. The report draws on a recent coverage by The Hindu reporting limited...
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Global Innovation Index: General Deconstruction and Critique
In October 2017, I posted a brief report on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2017 (10th edition). Over the course of the ensuing write-up, I have attempted to provide a more general review of the GII,...
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‘Retroactive Bad Faith’ Gets a Quiet Burial – UDRP Moves Towards Fairer...
Image from here. Domain names constitute the signposts for the world wide web, making it possible to navigate the immensity of the internet. Given the transnational nature of the internet and the...
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Delhi HC Reiterates that Delay in Filing a Patent Examination Request is...
Last month, in a lucid and well-reasoned judgment (Sphaera Pharma Pte. Ltd and Anr. v. Union Of India), the Delhi High Court emphatically clarified that the Patents Act, 1970 does not offer any scope...
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Delhi HC’s Ex Parte Order in Coca-Cola Company & Anr vs Glacier Water...
Introduction This is a case of ex parte proceeding concerning trademark dilution. We had dealt with identical legal issues earlier. Therefore, this post is more of a revision for lawyers. [For Prof....
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Amitabh Bachchan Lashes Out at Copyright Limitations – Here’s Why He’s Wrong
Image from here. In a rather rambling blog post on Monday, Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s angry young man turned angry-preacher-from-the-social-media-pulpit, let loose a diatribe against the seeming...
View ArticleDIPP Invites Applications from Universities for Hosting Chairs on IP Law –...
The DIPP has announced a new ‘Scheme for Pedagogy & Research in IPRs for Holistic Education and Academia (SPRIHA)’ inviting applications from all universities to host Chairs on IP law. The deadline...
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Patent Working PIL (Update): Court Directs Govt. to Give Reasonable Timeline...
In the latest development in the Patent Working PIL filed by Prof. Basheer, the Delhi High Court has directed the Government to file an affidavit stating a reasonable timeline within which it will...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (March 11 – 24)
The topical highlight for this fortnight has been Pankhuri’s post on the Delhi High Court’s judgement in Sphaera Pharma Pte. Ltd and Anr. v. Union Of India, where the Court reiterated that the Patents...
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SpicyIP Events: 5th WTI – CWS Joint Academy on International Trade Law and...
We are pleased to remind our readers 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...
View ArticleIn a Deeply Problematic 2012 Judgment, Bombay High Court Held That Copyright...
As Professor Joshua Sarnoff eloquently noted on this Blog, copyright is first and foremost an assertion by the creator. This being so, registration of a copyright is not mandatory for maintaining an...
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Guest Post: Ferrero Rocher v. Ruchi International: Another Merited but...
The damages jurisprudence of the Delhi High Court in IP cases has been a problematic area for several reasons that we have discussed on this blog. In this guest post, Eashan Ghosh takes apart a recent...
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Patent Office Publishes Stakeholders’ Comments on Patent Working Issues and...
In compliance of the order passed by the Delhi High Court on 15th March in Prof. Basheer’s Patent Working PIL, the Patent Office has published on its website the comments received by it from...
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SpicyIP Fellowship 2018-19: Basmati Wars – Peril for Madhya Pradesh and GI...
We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by our Fellowship applicant, Rishabh Mohnot. Rishabh is a 3rd year student at National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. This is his first...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (March 25 – April 7)
The thematic highlight for this fortnight, is Rahul’s post on the recent Bombay HC judgment that held copyright registration mandatory for maintaining an action of infringement. Rahul notes the Court’s...
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Where’s the Surcharge? : Of TM Renewals & Procedural Deficiencies
Last month, the Delhi High Court’s Division Bench delivered a rather interesting decision on trademark renewals in the case of Epsilon Publishing House v. UOI & Ors. In September of last year,...
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Supreme Court Affirms that only ‘Government Works’ under the Copyright Act...
Image from here. In B.N. Firos v State of Kerala and Ors., the Supreme Court of India, on March 27, held that only those ‘computer systems’ may be designated as protected system under the Information...
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Justice Prabha Sridevan and Prof. Srividya Raghavan on Patent Local Working...
Recently, Justice Prabha Sridevan (former Madras HC judge and IPAB Chairperson) and Prof. Srividya Raghavan (Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law) wrote an insightful editorial on...
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Delhi High Court’s judgment in Monsanto v. Nuziveedu delivers a deadly blow...
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court recently pronounced its judgment in the long running litigation between Monsanto and Nuziveedu. The present judgment was delivered in cross appeals filed by...
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