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IPAB Conducts Hearings and Passes Orders Despite Losing Quorum
It has recently come to our notice that the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has been conducting hearings and passing orders without the quorum mandated in the Trade Marks Act! Section...
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Draft Intermediary Guidelines Rules will Undermine Fair Dealing and Access to...
Image from here. The Ministry of Information Technology has released a draft of proposed changes to the Intermediary Guidelines Rules, 2011, made under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act,...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (28th January-3rd February)
Divij wrote a post about the recently released draft intermediary guidelines. In his post, he specifically focusses on Draft Rule 3(9) which provides for “automated tools” and “appropriate mechanisms”...
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Supreme Court on TRAI’s Regulatory Powers (Part 1)
In this belated two-part post, I will try to unpack a judgment of the Supreme Court (available here) from October 2017, on the scope of TRAI’s regulatory power with respect to broadcasting services. It...
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Guest Post (Adarsh Ramanujan): Why Donald Trump’s Union Address Matters for...
Photo from here. We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Adarsh Ramanujan. Adarsh is an advocate primarily assisting clients as a litigation attorney. He has recently started his own counsel...
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A second opposition is filed against Janssen’s patent application for the...
Multiple news outlets recently reported about a pre-grant patent opposition filed by two TB survivors, with support from MSF, against a patent application filed by Janssen for a salt form of its...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (Feb 4-10)
Thematic Highlight In the first of a two-part post, I wrote on the Supreme Court’s judgment in Star India v DIPP. In its judgment, the court delineated the regulatory powers of TRAI, in light of...
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SaReGaMa Pa-rdon Me, You Have the Wrong Address: On the Perils and Pitfalls...
Image from Wikimedia Commons. The universe surely has a strange sense of humour. Imagine our surprise when we received a notice from Google Inc., that they had de-indexed one of blogs after a complaint...
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Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship 2019 [Apply by March 1]
We’re pleased to inform you that the Inter University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT is offering two Summer Fellowships under ‘IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar...
View ArticleSpicyIP Jobs: Full Time & Consultancy Positions at K&S Partners
We’re pleased to inform you that K&S Partners, one of India’s leading IP law firms, is looking to recruit for multiple full time as well as consultancy positions across its offices in Gurgaon,...
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Supreme Court on TRAI’s Regulatory Powers (Part 2)
In my previous post, I had discussed the first issue that was discussed in Star India v DIPP, regarding the regulation of content by the impugned provisions. In this post, I will discuss the second...
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Update: European Union Agrees on Copyright Directive Text, ‘Upload Filters’...
In a major development in the European Union with repercussions for the internet at large, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission on February 13, 2019, agreed upon...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (Feb 11-17)
Thematic Highlight I wrote a post on the extent of TRAI’s regulatory powers. The Supreme Court, in TRAI v DIPP, held that TRAI’s regulatory powers include the power to prohibit. Further, it held that...
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Observations About the First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Sumit Sonkar, a Ph.D. candidate in Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on his observations on the First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia...
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Breaking News: Madras HC Upholds Kibow’s Probiotic Patent on Renadyl
In a significant development for Indian patent law, the Madras High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging an IPAB order that effectively upheld a probiotic patent. This is one of the rare Indian...
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Certification Trade Marks and GI versus ‘Regular’ Trade Marks: The Calcutta...
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on the recent decision of the Calcutta High Court in the GI and Certification TM infringement case filed by the Tea Board of India against ITC...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (18th February-24th February)
Eashan Ghosh wrote a guest post on a recent decision of the Calcutta High Court in a GI and Certification TM infringement case filed by the Tea Board of India against ITC for use of ‘Darjeeling’ as...
View ArticleSpicyIP Events: UPenn Law School & IDIA Conference on ‘A 3-D Perspective on...
We’re pleased to announce that University of Pennsylvania Law School and IDIA are organising an IP conference ‘A 3-D Perspective on Indian Intellectual Property: Distinct, Diverse and Democratic?’ on...
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Breaking: The Background Music to Spotify’s India Launch is a Crucial Legal...
Image from here It’s the one we’ve all been waiting for. Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming service, finally launched in India after months of speculation as to when and how the service would reach...
View ArticleReminder : UPenn Law School & IDIA Conference on ‘A 3-D Perspective on Indian...
A reminder to our readers about the upcoming UPenn Law School & IDIA Conference on ‘A 3-D Perspective on Indian Intellectual Property: Distinct, Diverse and Democratic?’ which we had posted about...
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