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As Justice Manmohan Singh Gets Another 6 Months on IPAB, an Ethical Quandary...
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) issued an order on Monday, with the Supreme Court pointing a gun at its head, appointing Justice Manmohan Singh to the Intellectual Property Appellate...
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Trastuzumab Biosimilar Litigation Saga: A New Order from the Delhi High Court
Image from here Last week, the Delhi High Court issued yet another order in the Trastuzumab litigation saga. This time, it is common order in two suits bearing CS (COMM) 1119/2016 (Roche v. Cadila,...
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Injunctions against Playing Copyright Protected Music/Songs During...
Image from here The recent orders of the Madras High Court in Phonographic Performance Ltd. v. the Accord Metropolitan and Ors. and Indian Performing Right Society Ltd v. K Murali and Ors., as well as...
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SpicyIP Jobs: Research Fellow/Associate Position & Ph.D. Program at ARCIALA,...
We’re happy to inform our readers that the School of Law at the Singapore Management University (SMU) has an opening for Research Associate/Research Fellow position for its Applied Research Centre for...
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Policy Questions Regarding Protection of Scent Marks
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Anupriya Dhonchak exploring policy questions regarding protection of smell marks. Anupriya is a 4th year law student at National Law...
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Experience at the Second IP and Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA)...
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Debmita Mondal, Assistant Professor, Hidayatullah National Law University (Raipur), on her experience at the Second IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 2 – 8)
(This post has been authored by Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Prashant wrote on the order appointing Justice Manmohan Singh to the IPAB until September 21, 2020,...
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Singapore’s Daren Tang Elected as Director General of WIPO amidst a Bitter...
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Sachin Sathyarajan on the recent election of Singapore’s Daren Tang as the Director General of WIPO. Sachin is a specialist in international law and...
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Another Amazon Original : How Amazon is Making and Breaking Trademarks
Image from here If you browse through Amazon while shopping for something, you’d notice that apart from some unbelievable discounts, most of the brands offering these products are relatively obscure...
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Copyright of Music Composers, Lyricists and Performers: Another Missed...
Image from here On February 13th, the Madras High Court passed a judgement in the case of M/s. Indian Record Manufacturing Company Limited v. AGI Music Sdn Bhd and Ors., wherein the music composer,...
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No Reasons Why – Questioning Delhi HC’s Order Granting Interim Injunction for...
On 20th February, the Delhi High Court in the case of Novartis Ag & Anr v. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries passed an order issuing a temporary injunction against Sun Pharmaceuticals barring their...
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Copyright of Music Composers, Lyricists and Performers: Another Missed...
In Part I of this two-part post, I had analysed the latest judgments of the Madras High Court in Ilaiyaraja (II) and Ilaiyaraja (I), in that order. I had concluded that the Madras High Court in...
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Should India Join the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement, 2015?
Image from here WIPO’s Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (“the Geneva Act”) was adopted on May 20, 2015. On February 26, the Geneva Act...
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An Overview of the Lobbying against Indian IP Law before the USTR
Every year, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) conducts hearings for its ‘Special 301’ report. The report which draws its name from Section 301 of the Trade Act, 1974 is meant to name and...
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Patent Politics in the Time of Corona
Image from here The new coronavirus threat/scare seems to be increasing with every passing day. At the time of writing this, it is reported that there are 138,941 cases (of which 80,815 are in China),...
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A Private Entity Seeks GI Protection for Chinnor Rice: Does it have the Locus...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Pragati Agarwal questioning the locus standi of a private entity seeking GI protection for Chinnor rice. Pragati is a 5th year student at...
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Delhi HC Allows Genentech’s Internal Expert to Inspect Reliance’s Documents...
Image from here On 2nd March, a Single Judge of the Delhi High Court in the case of Genentech Inc. and Ors. v. Drugs Controller General of India and Ors. passed an order, which effectively allowed...
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SpicyIP Events: Workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS and Patents in the...
Image from here 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 five day workshop on Access to...
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Call for Papers: NLSIU’s Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) Vol. 16...
We are pleased to inform our readers that NLSIU Bangalore’s Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is inviting original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in Volume 16. For further...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 9 -15)
Topical Highlight In an extremely topical post, Swaraj wrote about how COVID-19 (Corona Virus) has brought forth the tension between public health and private-profits. Given the widespread panic,...
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