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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (June 3-17)
Thematic Highlight This fortnight’s thematic highlight was Pankhuri’s update on the Patent Working PIL matter at the Delhi HC. The Delhi HC had disposed of the matter on April 23, 2018. The Court...
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A Reply to Anand Grover on the Bedaquiline Issue
In a piece published on June 13, 2018 on the Wire, Anand Grover takes issue with several pieces that I have written regarding the approval of bedaquiline, a new drug meant to treat a certain type of...
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Call for Papers: First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference [Kuala...
We are pleased to inform our readers that the First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference will be held on January 31 & February 1, 2019 at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws,...
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Patenting Blockchain Services in USA and India
Blockchain, initially introduced as a part of the Bitcoin currency, has now proven to be the new game-changer technology in several industries, with big corporations using it for various...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 18-24)
This week we, had a post by Prashant, which forms the latest update on the ongoing debate about the Bedaquiline issue. (Previous SpicyIP posts on this issue by Prashant and Balaji can be accessed...
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Article 13 of the Controversial EU Copyright Directive
The Internet as you know and love may change. The vote’s out! On 20th June, 2018, the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee (JURI) voted to approve amendments to Articles 11 and 13 of the EU...
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India breaks the Patents-Customs Linkage a bit!
The IP-customs linkage has always been a contentious one. Particularly so in the case of patents, an area of law which is difficult enough to decipher for trained judges, much less customs officials...
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The problematic advocacy that portrays bedaquiline as a wonder drug
On June 22, 2018 the Wire re-published my last piece, along with a rejoinder by Anand Grover, in our ongoing debate on the manner in which Bedaquiline was approved by the DCGI after waiving Phase III...
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RTI application regarding CL/VL status for bedaquiline gets transferred 3...
Image from here. On March 4, 2018 the Hindu published a frontpage news report on bedaquiline, the new drug that has shown promise in treating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). While we have...
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Of Privacy, Accountability and an Atrocity called Aadhaar: Whither Legal...
Privacy continues to remain a contested subject matter. I don’t mean contests over the bounds of privacy (particularly in the digital milieu), but a contest that is rather specific to IP: does privacy...
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New law to hardcode public interest into injunction jurisprudence
Image from here The upcoming session of Parliament may see the passage of a legislation that will have the effect of hardcoding ‘public interest’ into Indian injunction jurisprudence. The Specific...
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Guest Post: The Producer’s Dubbing Right– A note on Madras High Court’s...
We are extremely pleased to present before you a guest post written by Sheetal Srikanth. She is an associate at MVS Chambers, Chennai. She is a practising advocate at Madras High Court. She pursued her...
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Problems with the Indian Plant Variety Regime: Old Vine in Newly “Enclosed”...
We are extremely pleased to bring to you a guest post by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan. Prof. Gopalakrishnan is a leading IP academic from India, who has taught and groomed a number of other IP...
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Huge Win for Copyright Owners: India Signs up to Internet Copyright Treaties!
On July 4, 2018, the Union Cabinet approved the proposal to accede to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 (‘WCT’) and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, 1996 (‘WPPT’). These treaties are part of a...
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Australia’s big win at the WTO: Plain Packaging of tobacco likely to pick up!
In 2012, Australia was the first country to adopt plain packaging measures for tobacco products. Several countries such as France, Ireland, UK etc. followed suit and other countries such as India have...
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Notes from the WIPO-WTO colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property from...
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the colloquium for IP teachers from developing countries that is organized jointly by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and World Intellectual Property...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (June 24-July 7)
We have had an eventful fortnight at the blog: Thematic Highlight For our thematic highlight, we had a guest post from Prof. N.S. Gopalakrishnan. In the first of a series of posts, he writes about the...
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How an Indian Supreme Court Ruling (on Pharmaceutical Patents) Created a...
Too far fetched? Actually not quite. An Indian patent ruling did produce a big blockbuster. Not a drug, but a movie! Titled “Dying to Survive”, this Chinese film is turning out to be a big hit and...
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Problems with the Indian Plant Varieties Regime (II): Helping Seed Companies...
Last week, we had brought to you the first post in an ongoing series of insightful posts by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan on India’s problematic plant varieties’ regime. We are pleased to now bring...
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In A Blow to Creative Industry, Delhi High Court Upholds Constitutionality of...
Outside the Court House at Tehran, Iran. In a judgment delivered on May 28, 2018 (and which slipped under the radar until Shamnad was alerted to it), a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has upheld...
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