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Indian Idol for IPR – A National Search for Talent
On July 13, 2018, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) released a circular announcing the ‘Intellectual Property Talent Search Examination 2018’. Launched jointly by the Associated...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 30-August 5)
Thematic Highlight Prof. Basheer and Pankhuri provided a critical analysis of the National IPR Policy 2016. They note that the policy is not worth celebrating, since it largely endorses dogmatic views...
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Special Report: The Judicial and Policy Quackery Behind the Regulatory...
Long read There has been panic and alarm amongst doctors, especially gynecologists, since the announcement by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW) on June 27, 2018 that only one public...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Novartis Pursues Aggressive Patent Strategy with Respect to...
According to Times of India, Novartis obtained favourable court orders restraining five Ahmedabad-based pharma companies from manufacturing its patented drug for diabetes, Vildagliptin. Further, citing...
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Delhi HC Awards Punitive Damages for Infringement of Christian Louboutin’s...
Justice Yogesh Khanna of the Delhi High Court, in his judgment dated July 31, 2018 (“Louboutin-3”), has granted permanent injunction and punitive damages against a Delhi based retailer for infringing...
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Star India and Sony in Troubled Waters over CCI Order
[Warning: Long post follows!] The CCI, in a recent order dated 27th July, 2018, passed under Section 26(1) of the Competition Act, 2002 (“the Act”), instructed the Director General to investigate...
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Sexual Pleasure is Immoral: So Says the Indian Patent Office!
Don’t believe me? Read this decision where a patent claiming a sexually stimulating device (a unique vibrator) was denied on the ground that it was an “immoral” invention under section 3(b) of the...
View ArticleIn a Trademark Registration Dispute, Supreme Court Arrives at Correct...
In an interesting judgment delivered late last month, a Supreme Court (“Court”) bench consisting of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan ruled on the principles to be adopted for resolving trademark...
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Merits of Mediation: Leading Mediator Offers to Resolve Indian IP Dispute for...
A friend of mine informs me that a leading international mediator (one of the top 5 in the world) is willing to mediate a high stakes IP dispute for free. Any takers? Please let me know soon. He will...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 6-12)
Thematic Highlight Prashant wrote a special report on certain regulatory restrictions passed by the Ministry of Heath and Family Welfare; the Ministry announced that the Karnataka Antibiotics and...
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The Morality of Sexual Pleasure: Patent Office Training?
(This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer) Yesterday, we highlighted a problematic Patent Office decision, rejecting a claim to a sexual stimulation device (a unique vibrator) on the...
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Some Reflections on the WTO Panel Ruling in the Plain Packaging Dispute:...
We are pleased to bring to you a two-part guest post by Adarsh Ramanujan on the WTO Panel Report in the tobacco plain packaging dispute. Adarsh is an advocate primarily assisting clients as a...
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Some Reflections on the WTO Panel Ruling in the Plain Packaging Dispute:...
In Part I of this two-part guest post on the WTO Panel Report in the tobacco plain packaging dispute, Adarsh argued that the Panel didn’t get everything right in holding that the Tobacco Plain...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Trade & IP Analyst, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access...
We’re glad to inform our readers that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign is looking to hire a Trade and Intellectual Property Analyst. This is a full time position based in New Delhi. The...
View ArticleIn a Copyright Infringement Dispute, Delhi High Court Holds That Makers of...
In a judgment delivered last Friday, Justice Valmiki Mehta of the Delhi High Court (“Court”) ruled on a copyright infringement dispute which involved the application of well settled legal principles,...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Madras HC Upholds Copyright Claim on Film Title
Image from Wikimedia Commons Things tend to go sour when nobody watches the watchdog. This seems to be particularly true of our hon’ble courts when they act in ex parte or undefended suits. In the...
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Problems with the Indian Plant Varieties Regime (IV): Obliterating the...
We are pleased to bring to you the fourth post in the ongoing series of insightful posts by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan on India’s problematic plant varieties’ regime. The earlier posts in the...
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Did the Hindu’s Reporter Publish Fake News about Dr. Soumya Swaminathan...
In July I had written about how I had filed applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005 seeking information from the government regarding assertions made in a news report by Vidya Krishnan of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 13-20)
SpicyIP has been bustling with activity this week, with posts on diverse areas and active engagement from our readers. Thematic Highlight In another post in the ongoing series on the plant variety...
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Problems with the Indian Plant Varieties Regime (IV): Obliterating the...
We are happy to bring to you yet another insightful post in the ongoing series of posts by Prof. (Dr.) N.S. Gopalakrishnan on problems with India’s plant varieties’ regime. This post is Part II of the...
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