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Piracy, Privacy and Procurement: What Internet and Software Associations Had...
Following up on Prashant’s detailed coverage of certain commercial associations making representations to the US Trade Representative on its Special 301 Report, I looked into the representations made...
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COVID-19 Related Adjournments at Indian Patent Office, IPAB
Image from here In light of the COVID-19 related advisories (see all, here) from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks, has issued the...
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Royzz & Co. Int’l Student Scholarship for IP LL.M. at University of New...
As we’d informed our readers last year, the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property at the University of New Hampshire School of Law (UNH) and Royzz & Co. (erstwhile Solomon & Roy)...
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SpicyIP Fellowship: Directors’ Plight without (Copy)Right –‘Mr. India’...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a post by our Fellowship applicant, Lokesh Vyas, on the rights of film directors (or rather the absence of them) under Indian copyright law. Lokesh is a...
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Publication of Pleadings without Lawyers’ Consent : Copyright Infringement or...
Image from here Earlier this month, the Supreme Court held that legal pleadings/court records cannot be accessed through the Right to Information Act if the procedure for obtaining them is provided for...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 16 – 22)
(This post has been authored by Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Swaraj covered all the adjournments issued by the various IP offices in India due to the COVID-19...
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COVID-19: How Best Can the Indian IP Office Help its Stakeholders? [Updated]
In these unprecedented times where a pandemic has brought the globe to a standstill, the top-most concern of IP owners (of course, other than to save themselves from COVID-19) would be about meeting...
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The Need for an IP Policy to Build a Strategic Stockpile for Pandemics
Just as the country is coming to terms with the reality of the COVID pandemic, we are being warned of mass shortages of everything from quality masks to hazmat suits to diagnostic kits to ventilators...
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Corona and IP – Looking for the Right(s) Answers
The Covid 19 pandemic has now changed the way most of us are going about our day to day lives. In India, we are now on day 2 of our 21 day nation wide lock-down. In the midst of all that is going on...
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India’s First Covid-19 IP Dispute? Dettol Handwash Ad Claimed to Disparage...
Image from here In what seems to be India’s first (reported) coronavirus related IP dispute, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) took Reckitt Benckiser (RB) to the Bombay High Court over RB’s most recent Dettol...
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Global Trademark Report Card, 2019 (Special 301 Submission) – I
In these posts, from an Indian perspective, I shall discuss the main points of ‘2019 Global Trademark Report Card’ by Trademark Working Group (Special 301 Submission for 2020) [For complete list of...
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COVID-19: Invoking Fundamental Right to Health to Push Govt to Use Patent Law...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you an incisive guest post by Rahul Bajaj, arguing that it is not only wise for the Government to use the patent law flexibilities to ensure accessibility to...
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Global Trademark Report Card, 2019 (Special 301 Submission) – II
This is the second and last post covering submissions with respect to trademark. While making comments, I have relied on inputs provided by various practising lawyers based out of Delhi and other parts...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 23 – 29)
(This post has been authored by Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Namratha covered the first (reported) coronavirus related IP dispute in India, where Hindustan...
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Bombay HC Denies Interim Injunction to Zee Against ‘De Dhakka’ Film Sequel
Image from here A Single Judge of the Bombay High Court recently passed an order in the case of Zee Entertainment Enterprises v. Ameya Vinod Khopkar & Ors. The case concerned an allegation of...
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Is Sub-licensing Contemplated under the Indian Copyright Act?
Image from here This post analyses whether the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 (“the Act”) permits sub-licensing by a licencee. The inspiration for this post is my frequent involvement with advice on the IP...
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CoViD-19 Pandemic Spurs Calls for ‘Openness’ in IP
The CoViD-19 pandemic may well be humanity’s biggest collective challenge in a post-globalisation era. In the midst of this global emergency, the artificial scarcity produced by international and...
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End of the Road for Bt Licensing Royalties in India
Reuters recently reported that the Government of India has “axed” the royalties that over 45 Indian seed companies had to pay Bayer (which acquired Monsanto) under IP licensing agreements which have...
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Corona and Trademarks: Opportunistic Marketing or Unhealthy Opportunism?
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you an interesting and pertinent post by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, analysing the trademark related issues thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic. Bhavik is a 5th...
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Generic Domain Names as Trademarks: Registrability and Enforcement
We’re pleased to bring to you an insightful post by Raunaq Kamath on the discrepancy in registration and the subsequent enforcement of generic words as domain names and trademarks. Raunaq is an...
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