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Creating More Copyright in Cinema: But What of the Actual Creators?
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Swaroop Mamidipudi on the recent decisions in MRF v. Metro Tyres and Yash Raj Films v. Sri Sai Ganesh Productions, wherein the Delhi High Court held that...
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The Sustainable Seed Innovations Project: Model Farms and Farmers in Seva
In the next post in the ongoing series on The Sustainable Seed Innovations Project, Natalie Kopytko, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at University of Leeds shares stories of farmers creating model...
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The Sustainable Seed Innovations Project: The Story of ‘Sona Moti’
In the next post in the ongoing series on The Sustainable Seed Innovations Project, Natalie Kopytko, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at University of Leeds shares the story of a variety of wheat...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 22-28)
We have had a gargantuan week at SpicyIP, with plenty of content on recent decisions around courts, and updates from the Sustainable Seed Innovations Project. Below is a summary of the week gone by:...
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The Timken Template: The Delhi High Court Ruling in Suzuki Motor v. Suzuki India
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on the recent Delhi High Court ruling in Suzuki Motor v. Suzuki India. Eashan has been in practice as an intellectual property advocate and...
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Happy Feet and Not-so-Happy Hands: Meaning of GI for Kolhapuri Chappals
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Dr. Sunanda Bharti on the GI tag for Kolhapuri chappals. Dr. Sunanda is an Assistant Professor in Law at Delhi University. She has written two guest posts...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 29 – August 4)
This week, we had a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on Suzuki Motor v. Suzuki India, a Delhi HC ruling dealing with the trademark infringement of the trade mark ‘SUZUKI’. After giving a brief overview of...
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Keep Shining Upon Us, Our Guiding Star – Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer (1976 –...
We are saddened beyond words to inform you that our Founder and Chief Mentor, Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer, has passed away in an unfortunate accident. As our readers know, his contribution to legal...
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Shamnad Basheer (1976–2019): The Man, the Academic and the Friend
While we’re all struggling to come to terms with the heart breaking loss of our Founder and Chief Mentor, Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer, we bring to you a lovely tribute to him by Prashant Reddy or the...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: IPAB Website Malfunctioning!
In January this year, we had reported that the IPAB website was down, leaving the latest orders and judgments of the IPAB inaccessible. For the last few days, we have noticed that the website is back...
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Delhi HC Issues Dozens of Blocking Injunctions under the New ‘Dynamic...
The Delhi High Court, over the course of a dozen interim orders between July 27 and August 12, 2019, has issued website blocking injunctions for ISPs to block dozens of websites and their...
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Should Indian Copyright Law Prevent Text and Data Mining?
We are incredibly excited to bring to our readers a guest post by the fantastic Dr. Arul George Scaria, on one of the most cutting-edge developments in technological developments which implicate...
View ArticleCJEU Ruling in Pelham v. Hutter : If Sample Recognizable, Then It Infringes,...
Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling as relates to copyright in music. A short media summary of the ruling can be viewed here and the full text can be viewed...
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Malamud’s New TDM Venture May Not be Shielded by Section 52 of the Copyright Act
Picture from Wikipedia Carl Malamud is at it again, riling up copyright owners and setting the stage for yet another lawsuit on a fascinating copyright issue. His latest effort to ‘liberate’...
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Shogun Organics: Burden of Proof and Follow On Registrations
Shogun Organics Limited v. Gauri Hari and Others is a curious case concerning burden of proof and an apparent conflict between the Patents Act, 1970 and the Insecticides Act, 1968. Facts Shogun...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (August 11-25)
This month, we received the tragic news of the passing away of our Founder and Chief Mentor, Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer. He touched the lives of all of us here at SpicyIP in innumerable ways and...
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The Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of...
Even as we continue to come to terms with the passing of Prof. Shamnad Basheer, it has been of some comfort to hear of the various initiatives and ideas that people have started considering to help...
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Mission Report: What is the Current Status of IPAB’s Website?
Last week, I had reported that IPAB’s website was malfunctioning. It had been displaying untoward links that did not belong on a website run by the IPAB, or any other tribunal for that matter! My guess...
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Del HC Vacates Interim Orders Restraining Dr. Reddy’s & Ors. from Selling...
Image from here On 8th August, the Single Bench of the Delhi High Court vacated the interim orders granted in favour of AstraZeneca (‘plaintiff’) preventing Micro Labs, Natco Pharma and Dr. Reddy’s...
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Del HC Clarifies that No Infringement Action is Maintainable in Respect of a...
A recent decision by Justice Prathiba Singh of the Delhi High Court, in the case brought in by Novartis AG against Natco this year, reiterates the black letter law regarding non-maintainability of...
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