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PhD Scholarship for Project on ‘Food Security and the Governance of Local...
We’re pleased to bring to your notice two PhD scholarship opportunities for the Australian Research Council funded project on ‘Food security and the governance of local knowledge in India and...
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Bombay High Court Orders ‘Urgent’ Ex-Parte Ad-Interim Applications in IP...
As per a notice dated November 6, 2019, the Bombay High Court had directed that all urgent mentioning for ex-parte ad-interim applications in IP matters will be held in the chambers of the judge, from...
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SpicyIP Events: Workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents in the...
We’re pleased to inform you that The Third World Network (TWN), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan are organising a workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS and...
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Trade Secret Case Law: Steer Engineering Pvt. Ltd. v. Glaxosmithkline...
Image from here This is a case on trade secret / confidential information. The Indian jurisprudence on trade secret law is still at a nascent stage. While discussing this case, I am limiting the scope...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (November 4 – 17)
Adarsh had previously written two posts on the various misunderstandings surrounding the Plant Varieties Act (“PPV Act“). He had focussed on the Public Notice 01/2019 (“Notice“) published in May 2019,...
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Delhi HC Division Bench Restores Sanctity of Three-Pronged Test for Interim...
[This post has been co-authored with Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal] In a very welcome and significant development, on July 11 this year, a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court set...
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Transborder Prosecution History Estoppel in Patent Litigation?
We’re pleased to bring to you an insightful guest post by Abhilasha Nautiyal. Abhilasha is an attorney at Ira Law, a firm that she co-founded with other colleagues. Prior to this, she was a partner at...
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Justice Endlaw’s Lessons on Legal Drafting
Image from here Earlier this year, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw made a concluding remark on the “non-essential verbosity” of a plaintiff in a civil dispute [Nikita Gupta v. Alok Gupta (May 21, 2019)]....
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Tribunal Rules: Trade Marks Act to Govern IPAB...
Image from here [This post has been co-authored with Pankhuri Agarwal] Earlier this month, the Supreme Court in Rojer Mathew v. South Indian Bank Ltd. & Ors., struck down the Tribunal, Appellate...
View ArticleGoI Approves Patent Prosecution Highway Program
Government of India approved the proposal for Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programme between Indian Patent Office under Controller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marktis (CGPDTM),...
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Appreciating the Fundamentals of Trade Secrets Law – I
I discussed a trade secret case law recently. I wrote that I would discuss some of the fundamental aspects from a comparative law perspective. As a prelude, I can only discuss the broad contours of...
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CUSAT Institutes Minor IP Research Project for Teachers
We’re pleased to inform you that The Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) has instituted a Minor Research Project with the objective of...
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CISAC Global Collections Report – 2019
CISAC is the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. Its stated objective is to ‘protect the rights and promote the interests of creators across all regions of the world and...
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SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (Nov 18 – Dec 1)
Topical Highlight Recently, the Delhi HC set aside two interim injunction orders passed against Natco. In a post co-authored by Pankhuri Agarwal and Bhavik Shukla, these orders were identified as a...
View ArticleCharminar Case by the Indian Supreme Court in 1996 and the AG’s Opinion in...
On October 16, 2019 the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice rendered an opinion in Sky Plc & Ors v. Sky Kick UK Ltd. & Anr. (“the Sky case”) in a reference by Justice Arnold...
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Sale of the ‘.org’ Domain Registry Sparks Concerns About Privatisation of the...
The administration of the World Wide Web’s ‘.org’ domain registry has been handed over from a non-profit organisation to a private equity organisation, sparking concerns and backlash about the...
View ArticleDesign Rights: Originality to Remain the Sole Criterion ? – India and the EU
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Mathangi K. Mathangi is a second year law student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. Design Rights: Originality to Remain the Sole Criterion...
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The New (Draft) Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Guidelines – Part I
Image from here In this post, I intend to share my views on the draft “Guidelines on Access to Biological Resources and Associated Knowledge and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Regulations, 2019” (draft...
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The New (Draft) Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Guidelines – Part II
Image from here Continuing further on my comments on the new Draft ABS Guidelines, 2019. Definition of Conventional Breeding Under draft Regulation 12(d), accessing biological resources for...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Press Release on Appeals from IPAB and IP Offices
In a press release by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, it was clarified that any order of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) and any decision of intellectual property offices (such...
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