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Breaking: In India’s First Post-Trial Standard Essential Patent Judgement,...
Almost a year after it was reserved by the Delhi High Court, the first post-trial judgement by an Indian Court in a Standard Essential Patent-related suit was issued on July 12, 2018. In Koninklijke...
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The Himachal Pradesh High Court Revokes Patent Grant Invoking Section 3(p)
Earlier (quite a few years ago!), Prashant had reported a 2008 order of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, wherein the Court had examined the validity of the Patent No. 195917, a patent granted to the...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 8-15)
It’s been an interesting week at SpicyIP! Thematic Highlight The second guest post by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan forms the thematic highlight of this week. In continuation to his first post, Prof....
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Protecting India’s Biodiversity: Are we all Criminals?
We are pleased to bring to you an insightful guest post by Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati on the interpretational and other issues in respect of India’s Biological Diversity Act and Rules. Dr. Pisupati is an...
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SpicyIP Events: The Sports Law & Policy Symposium 2018 [August 17-18, New Delhi]
We are pleased to inform our readers that the Sports Law and Policy Centre (SLPC), Bangalore is organising the second edition of the SLPC Symposium on August 17-18, 2018 at the India International...
View ArticleIn a Passing Off Suit, Delhi HC Refuses to Grant Interim Relief by Adopting...
In an interesting judgment delivered earlier this month, the Delhi High Court adopted a highly tenuous (and bizarre) line of reasoning in arriving at the conclusion that the plaintiff was not entitled...
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A Note on Madras High Court judgment in M/S.N.Ranga Rao & Sons vs M/S.Shree...
Background This Madras High Court judgment sets out certain significant pointers with respect to defensive registration (in the context of Trade Marks Act, 1958) and well-known marks (in the context of...
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P&G wins trademark case against Jamia Remedies
As per Livemint, the Bombay high court restrained UP-based Unani medicine company Jamia Remedies from manufacturing and selling its mouth dusting powder under the ‘Ora-B’ brand. P&G had earlier...
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Pharma Update: Russia Grants First Compulsory License for Anti-Myeloma Drug...
Nativa was granted Russia’s First Compulsory License In moves that should have significant global impact on public health, an Arbitration Court in Moscow, Russia, granted Russia’s first Compulsory...
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IIPRD and K&K Offer Crash Course for Patent Agent Examination 2018
We are pleased to inform you that IIPRD along with Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys (K&K) is offering a crash course for preparation for the Patent Agent Examination (PAE) 2018,...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 15-22)
We have had another eventful week at the blog. Thematic Highlight Our thematic highlight for this week came from a guest post by Dr Balakrishna Pisupati, who wrote on the strict interpretation of the...
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Trumping Trips: Indian Patent Proficiency and the Evolution of an...
In an earlier post, I argued that an Indian supreme court decision may have unwittingly unleashed a Chinese blockbuster. As promised, here is a bit more on this stupendous Supreme court (SC) ruling...
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A Freudian Flip by the Delhi High Court – Of Trademark Similarity and a...
In Gillette Company LLC vs. Tigaksha Metallics Private Ltd, the Delhi High Court recently passed an order deciding to extend an ex-parte injunction restraining the defendant from infringing the...
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Problems with the Indian Plant Varieties Regime (III): Setting Arbitrary DUS...
We are pleased to bring to you the third post in an ongoing series of perceptive posts by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan on India’s problematic plant varieties’ regime. The first and second post in...
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The New Age of IP Mediation in India
Time for the Argumentative Indian to step down? They say that time is money, but clearly no one seems to adhere to this adage in the Courts of law in India. It’s no news that shortage of judges,...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 22-29)
Thematic Highlight Prof. Basheer wrote another post on the Novartis AG v. Union of India decision in continuation to his earlier post on a Chinese blockbuster inspired by the Novartis decision. In the...
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Patent Applicant Withdraws Application of its Own Accord!
In a recent decision dated 26th June, 2018, the Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs exercised his power under Section 15 of the Patents Act, 1970 (“the Act”) and rejected the bid for a patent...
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Philips SEP Judgement: India’s First Post-Trial SEP Judgement has Serious Flaws
Earlier, we covered Ms. Justice Mukta Gupta’s decision in Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. vs. Rajesh Bansal And Ors. where the Delhi High Court found certain local manufacturers of DVD players...
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India’s IP Policy: A Bare Act?
(This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer) It’s been more than two years since India’s National IPR Policy was first announced. Mired in one controversy after another, this policy has...
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SpicyIP Events: NLU Delhi’s Certificate Course on IP Licensing & Competition...
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC) at National Law University, Delhi will be conducting a five-day Certificate Course on IP...
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