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Call for Papers: NUALS Intellectual Property Review (Vol. 2) [Submit by Dec...
We’re pleased to announce that the NUALS Intellectual Property Law Review, operating under the aegis of the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), NUALS, is inviting submissions on the...
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Patent Office Publishes A New List of Scientific Advisors After 9 Years
Image from here [This post has been co-authored with Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal.] The Patent Office released a list of newly enrolled/...
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SpicyIP Fellowship 2019-20: DPIIT’s Draft Guidelines on Geographical...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by our fellowship applicant, Akanshha Agrawal on the Draft Guidelines on Geographical Indications Logo and Tagline released by DPIIT in June...
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Call for Abstracts: Second IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference...
We are pleased to inform our readers that the Second IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference will be held on February 27 & 28, 2020 at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia, in...
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CJEU Endorses ‘Notice and Stay Down’ For Illegal Online Content
Image by EFF. In a major ruling on October 3, 2019, the CJEU in Case C-18/18 – Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited, held that national courts may direct injunctions against online...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (September 23 – October 13)
Thematic Highlight In her first submission, fellowship applicant Akanshha Agrawal wrote on the free speech, morality and trademark law debate in light of the recent Iancu v Brunetti decision of the...
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Reliance Life Sciences scores minor victory in continuing litigation over...
An appeals bench of the Delhi High Court finally heard and disposed, last month, an appeal filed by Reliance Life Sciences in 2016, against an order that Justice Manmohan Singh had delivered in a...
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Broadcasting, Internet and Section 31D of the Copyright Act
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you an insightful guest post by Jagdish Sagar, an independent lawyer practicing largely in the field of copyright and entertainment law in Delhi, on the...
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(Nobel) Prizes and Patents: Kremer and AMCs
Learn how to prioritise from the best! (News clipping taken from LiveMint) As readers know by now, the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially known as “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in...
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SpicyIP Fellowship 2019-20: Do Not ‘Broadcast Yourself’ over Trivial Claims –...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by our fellowship applicant, Antony Moses. Antony is a 4th year student at NUALS, Kochi. Do Not ‘Broadcast Yourself’ over Trivial Claims:...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 14-20)
Topical Highlight Prashant wrote a post on an order passed by the Delhi HC concerning the marketing of a biosimilar of the breast cancer drug Herceptin by Reliance Life Sciences. Genentech, which owned...
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Plant Varieties Act: Misunderstood and Misapplied (Part I)
Image from here The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 (PPV Act) is probably one of the least understood IP laws in this country. Arbitrary and ultra vires actions of the PPV...
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Justice Pratibha Singh Demands a Reply from the Government of India on the...
In a sharply worded order passed last week, Justice Pratibha Singh of the Delhi High Court has made scathing observations regarding the dysfunctional Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) and...
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Place the (Trade Marks) Act Before the Rules: Del HC Directs Registry to...
Image from here In a much-lauded decision, Justice J. R. Midha of the Delhi High Court has made it easier and quicker for applicants to appeal a decision of the Registrar of Trade Marks arising from a...
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Plant Varieties Act: Misunderstood and Misapplied (Part II)
Image from here In Part-I of this three-part post, I provided a brief summary of the compound system of registration for parents and hybrids, created under the Public Notice 01/2019 of the PPV...
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The India Innovation Index 2019 – Great Start, But Why Hide Section 3(d) and...
On October 24th, the Niti Aayog released the first edition of the India Innovation Index (III). The Institute for Competitiveness was the knowledge partner for this endeavour. After years of various...
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Delhi HC Gives Expansive Interpretation to Section 79 of IT Act: Issues...
On October 23, a single judge of the Delhi High Court – Justice Prathiba M Singh – issued an interim injunction directing Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other unnamed intermediaries to take...
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SpicyIP Events: CUSAT’s 7th Annual ‘Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights’...
We are pleased to announce that Inter University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) is organising the seventh annual ‘Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights’...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 21-November 3)
Thematic Highlight Adarsh wrote a two-part post on the various misunderstandings surrounding the Plant Varieties Act (“PPV Act“). In the first part of the post, he focussed on the Public Notice 01/2019...
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Plant Varieties Act: Misunderstood and Misapplied (Part III)
Image from here In Part-I and Part-II, I had previously shared a summary of the Public Notice 01/2019 as well as my views on whether (and the extent to which) the said notice is ultra vires. In this...
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