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Offence of Copyright Infringement Cognizable or Not? : Still a Catch 22...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you another post by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, discussing whether the offence of copyright infringement under section 63 of the Copyright Act is cognizable or...
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The Case for Keeping the IPAB Open – Part II
Image from here I am compelled to draft a reply to Prashant’s response to my post (which in turn was a response to the initial post by him and Prannv arguing for the shutdown of IPAB). The bulk of my...
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Is Sub-Licensing of a Trademark Permitted under the Indian Trade Marks Act?
Image from here Last month, I had blogged about the feasibility of a sub-license under the Indian copyright law. In this blog post, I will examine the issue whether the Indian Trade Marks Act, 1999...
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Regarding the Scrapping of the IPAB
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Justice (Retd.) Prabha Sridevan on the shutting down of IPAB (our recent series of posts on which can be viewed here). Justice Sridevan needs no...
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SpicyIP Events: Sagacious IP’s Virtual Conference on the Occasion of World IP...
We’re pleased to inform you that Sagacious IP is organizing a virtual conference on the occasion of World IP Day on ‘How MSMEs can Innovate and Lead into a Green Future’. The Conference is scheduled to...
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US Supreme Court Upholds States’ Immunity from Copyright Infringement Suits :...
Image from here Last month, the US Supreme Court issued its judgement in an interesting case involving sovereign immunity for copyright infringement. This was the case of Frederick L Allen v. Roy A....
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Govt Urged to Revoke Patent for Gilead’s Potential Anti-COVID19 Drug Remdesivir
Image from here Recently, the Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) wrote to the Health Ministry and the Pharma Ministry urging them to revoke the Indian patent granted to Gilead’s Remdesivir, an...
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Screening of Movies in Educational Settings: Copyright Infringement or Fair Use?
Image from here Every year, April 26th is celebrated as World IP Day. WIPO’s website states that the aim of the celebration is to “learn about the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and...
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Cross-Border Data Flows in WTO Law: Moving Towards an Open, Secure and...
We have for our readers today an invited guest post from Neha Mishra, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. Neha earned her BA.LLB...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 20 – 26)
(This post has been authored by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Namratha wrote about Cancer Patients Aid Association’s (‘CPAA’) call for revocation of...
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The Legality of Digital Libraries in a Lockdown
The British Museum Reading Room (Image from Wikimedia Commons) Quarantine and lockdown in the midst of the CoViD-19 pandemic has left entire populations without physical access to schools, colleges and...
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Is Sub-Licensing of Trademarks Permitted under Indian Law? : An Alternate...
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Kapil Wadhwa on the issue of permissibility of sub-licensing of trademarks in India. Last week, Latha had discussed this issue on the blog, arguing that...
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USTR Special 301 Review (2020) Submissions – Continued
As readers may know, the Special 301 Review is an effort by the US Trade Representative (USTR) to identify countries whose IP regimes are not conducive to US persons’ IP interests, with the stated goal...
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US Supreme Court’s Decision on Copyrightability of Annotations to Official...
Image from here We are delighted to bring to our readers an insightful post by Dr. Arul George Scaria on the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Georgia et al., v. Public.Resource.Org holding that...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 27 – May 3)
(This post has been authored by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Divij covered the legal aspects surrounding digital access to libraries with reference...
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A Response to the Alternate Interpretation on Permissibility of Sub-licensing...
Image from here Last week, Kapil had written a guest post giving an alternate interpretation to the arguments in my post on the impermissibility of sub-licensing arrangements under the Trade Marks Act,...
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BMW v. ‘DMW’ E-Rickshaw: Did Delhi HC Grant Injunction Based on an Incomplete...
Images from here and here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Nikhil Purohit, analysing the Delhi High Court’s recent grant of an interim injunction restraining an e-rickshaw manufacturer...
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A Petition to Shutdown the IPAB and Shift Its Functions to High Courts and...
A few weeks ago we had an interesting series of posts on SpicyIP, debating the role of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) and whether it should continue to exist. Along with our former...
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Same Old Disparagement Story: Delhi HC Grants Interim Injunction Against...
Image from here A single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recently passed an order granting an interim injunction in the case of Reckitt Benckiser (India) Private Limited v. Hindustan Unilever...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 4 – 10)
(This post has been authored by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) In a guest post, Nikhil Purohit wrote about the decision of BMW AG v. Om Balajee Automobile (India),...
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