A Belated Weekly Review (17th February TO 24th February, 2014)
The last week did not see much action in the field of intellectual property rights in India. A quick recapitulation follows: In the beginning of the week, Swaraj had analysed the GIPC International IP...
View ArticleThe ‘Rise Prize’: The much-needed ‘million-dollar’ encouragement for Indian...
In a hugely welcome development, Mr. Anand Mahindra of the Mahindra group is offering a million dollar challenge to innovators who can provide solutions for two of India’s major problems- traffic...
View ArticleGati Ltd. v. Gati Dance Forum-Trademark infringement
In the last week of February, the Delhi High Court passed its order in the case of M/s GATI Ltd. v. GATI DANCE FORUM which dealt primarily with the issue of an interim injunction in a suit for...
View ArticleRare diseases and Innovation
We must applaud ourselves. We must applaud ourselves because we have toiled and advocated the causes of affordable healthcare and access to drugs. We have fought for cancer and malaria medication to be...
View ArticleCensorship, Copyright And the End of ‘Innocence’
Recently, a U.S. Circuit Court has ordered that Google must take down from YouTube the controversial parody film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ based on a copyright claim by actress Cindy Garcia, who makes a...
View ArticleDelhi HC Vacates Injunction Granted in Favour of Steelbird – Design not New...
Steelbird Hi-Tech India Ltd. v. S.P.S. Gambhir and Ors. Text of the judgement available here. The Delhi High Court recently (Feb. 24, 2014) vacated an ex-parte interim injunction granted in favour of...
View ArticleGuest Post: Change of fees in new Patent Rules
We’re happy to bring our readers a guest post on the recent amendments to the Patent Rules dated 28th February, 2014. The article below is written by Advocate Abhishek Pandurangi, an Indian IP Attorney...
View ArticleGuest Post: “RPG Life” Arbitration – some interesting observations
Shashank Mangal, who is fast becoming one of our regular guest posters, brings us a post on a in an area we don’t cover very often – domain name disputes. Shashank is a 4th year student at ILS, Pune....
View ArticleDelhi HC stays release of Bollywood movie Gulaab Gang
Today, the Hindu carried an article that reported the stay issued by the Delhi HC on the nationwide release of the upcoming Hindi movie ‘Gulaab Gang‘ starring Bollywood stars Madhuri Dixit and Juhi...
View ArticleWeekly Review (24th February to 2nd March)
The SpicyIP highlight of the week is Thomas’ post on Rare diseases and innovation. We chose it as the highlight of the week as it brings to light an often under-discussed topic in the pharma patent...
View ArticleNCAER Report on Parallel Imports OUT!
The National Council of Applied Economic Research has released its much awaited report on the Impact of Parallel Imports on Copyrighted Works. Stakeholders can send in comments by 21st March 2014 and...
View ArticleTeva loses in the patent battle against NATCO
Introduction The Delhi HC, in a recent judgment, returned the plaint filed by Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. (“Teva”), Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (“Yeda”) and Teva API India Limited...
View ArticleRevisiting – patentability of computer programs and Section 3(k), a different...
This post continues from my previous (academic) posts on the topic re patentability of software, and provides an academic reasoning of what constitutes software / computer programme per se. The reason...
View ArticleTaking IP on a spin – round 1
The lines below (emphasis: mine) are taken out of a letter (see here) dated August 2nd, 2013 sent by 4 US Senators requesting the US International Trade Commission (USITC) to investigate India’s...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (3rd-9th March, 2014)
This week, SpicyIP covered an array of topics ranging across the spectrum of IP Law. The SpicyIP story of the week is Aparajita’s post covering the report by the National Council of Applied Research...
View ArticleWIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property
The WIPO and WTO are jointly organising a two week colloquium from June 16-27, 2014 for teachers of intellectual property from developing countries and countries with economies in transition in Geneva....
View ArticleTrademark Parallel Imports: Delhi HC on the Marlboro Trademark case
People say that the world isn’t “black and white”; that there are many shades in between, of which, the grey areas usually raise difficult questions. This belief applies even in the world of...
View ArticleDelhi High Court Denies ‘India Today’ Temporary Injunction Regarding...
Living Media Ltd (“India Today Group”) had filed an application for interim injunction in front of the Delhi High Court restraining Alpha Dealcom from launching a news channel with the name ‘Nation...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: India 2nd Largest User of PCT Among Developing Countries
A press release by WIPO on 13th March, 2014 reveals that 2013 saw new records being broken when more than 200,000 international patent applications were filed in a single year, for the first time....
View ArticleOf Deceptive Similarity, Vacating of Injunctions and Country Liquor
H v. H High Court of Bombay Text of the judgement can be found here The Bombay High Court recently refused to vacate an injunction granted to a country liquor distillery in a trademark and copyright...
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