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All About Men’s Fairness Creams and Generic Disparagement
In a country where a person’s beauty is usually based on the melanin content in one’s skin, products promising fairness and “even skin tone” are abundantly available in the Indian cosmetics industry,...
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The Nature of Orders and Quorum Requirements at the IPAB (Part I)
In January, I had written a brief post alleging the illegality of the hearings conducted and the orders passed by the IPAB. I had argued that the IPAB had violated the law because it failed to meet the...
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Breaking: Delhi High Court Issues India’s First ‘Dynamic’ Website Blocking...
Online piracy, that bugbear of copyright owners, has received significant attention from courts in India and abroad, which hope to craft an elegant solution to protect rightsholders interests in a...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 8-14)
Topical Highlight Divij wrote a post on India’s first ‘dynamic’ website blocking injunction, issued by the Delhi High Court. This order allows for the plaintiff to apply for the extension of an...
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SpicyIP Events: 2019 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School in Geneva in June! [June...
We’re pleased to inform you that the 2019 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School will be conducted in Geneva from June 24 to July 5, 2019. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2019. For further details, please...
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The ‘Farmers’ Rights’ Law Lays the IPR Trap
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Shalini Bhutani. Shalini is an India-based independent legal researcher and policy analyst working in the Asian region. The ‘Farmers’...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 15-21)
In a guest post, Shalini Bhutani argues that the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 2001 is likely to have a detrimental impact on the well being of farmers. She highlights the recent...
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SpicyIP Events: Interactive Session on “Best Practices in IPR” by PHD...
We’re pleased to announce that PHD Chambers of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with United IPR is organizing an interactive session on ‘Best Practices in IPR’ on April 26, 2019 in New Delhi....
View ArticleCall for Submissions for Vol. 15 of The Indian Journal of Law and Technology
We are pleased to announce that Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is inviting original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in Volume 15. For further details, please see the call for...
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Who am I? Branding the Indian Patent Office as an “Adjudicative Regulator”
Some of you may have heard of an exceptional book series on intellectual property (IP) called “Kritika”. Published by Edward Elgar and edited by the wonderful trio of Professor Peter Drahos, Hanns...
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SpicyIP Fellowship 2019-20: Article 13 (of the EU Directive) and The...
Image from here We’re pleased to pleased to bring to you a guest post by our Fellowship applicant, Arushi Gupta. Arushi is a 2nd year student at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai. This is her...
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US Trade Representative Special 301 Report 2019: “Phir Ek Baar, Priority...
Will India Succumb to the Dark Side? aka the Priority Watch List Strikes Again. For the 27th year in a row, India has made it to the infamous Priority Watch List in the Special 301 Report – an annual...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 22-28)
Thematic Highlight In her second application for the SpicyIP Fellowship 2019-20, Arushi wrote a post on Article 13 (now Article 17, in the final text) of the EU Directive. In her post, she focusses on...
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Texas A&M University Offers Scholarships to Indian Students for its LL.M. and...
We’re pleased to inform you that the Texas A&M University is offering scholarships (covering 50% of the tuition fees) for prospective students from India for its IP Law as well as General LL.M. and...
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Delhi High Court Issues Notice to DIPP on Vacancies at IPAB
Recently, the Delhi High Court took cognizance of the inconvenience caused to litigators due to vacancies at the IPAB (covered on the blog earlier here and here) and issued a notice to the Department...
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The Nature of Orders and Quorum Requirements at the IPAB (Part II)
In the previous part of this post, I had argued that there is no exception to the quorum requirements on the basis of the nature of the order. Therefore, even if the orders passed by the IPAB without...
View ArticleSpicyIP Events: International Conference on Intellectual Property and...
We’re pleased to announce that the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is organizing the International Conference on Intellectual Property and Development, entitled “How to Benefit from the...
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Bombay HC Imposes A Whopping Amount Of Rs. 5 Cr Costs For Trademark Infringement
On April 15, 2019, the Bombay HC imposed costs of Rs. 5 crores in its order in Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation vs. Kishor D Jain & Anr. Nippon Steel, represented by Remfry and Sagar,...
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SpicyIP Events: CUSAT’s Empirical Study Orientation Programme on Research...
We’re pleased to announce that the Inter University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT is conducting an empirical study orientation programme on Research Methods in IPRs...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 29-May 5)
Topical Highlight Prarthana wrote a post on the imposition of a staggering Rs. 5 crore in costs in Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation v Kishor D Jain. The case concerned the sale of...
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