Phonographic Performance Limited v. Spring Club- copyright societies’...
Recently, the Delhi Court issued an order in the matter of Phonographic Performance Limited v. Spring Club, dismissing the Defendant’s application for rejection of plaint under O. VII R.11, CPC. The...
View ArticleSpicy IP Tidbit: IPAB stays the revocation of Pfizer’s patent
The Chennai Patent Office had earlier revoked Pfizer’s patent on Detrol LA in response to a post grant opposition initiated by Ranbaxy. Detrol LA (extended release capsules of tolterodine) is used for...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review: 24th-30th March, 2014
SpicyIP brings to you the review of the week 24th-30th March, 2014. The story of the week is Gopika’s post on Novartis obtaining an injunction against Wockhardt regarding the sale of a drug containing...
View ArticleEnforcement Directorate swoops on violators of the Trademarks Act
In an unprecedented move, the Enforcement Directorate has slapped money laundering charges on two Indian firms for violation of the Trade Marks Act. In April 2013, the Steel Authority of India (SAIL)...
View ArticleDelhi HC grants an injunction against Mindgym Kids Library for Infringement...
MIND GYM Ltd. v. MINDGYM KIDS LIBRARY Pvt. Ltd. Text of the judgement available here. The Delhi High Court recently (Mar. 21, 2014) granted an injunction against MINDGYM Kids Library Pvt. Ltd. in an...
View ArticleJournalistic Privileges and Regulation of Blogs
(This post has been co authored with Gopika) The Internet, especially blogs, has become a powerful force in the distribution of information. This new medium challenges the way traditional media...
View ArticleSpicyip Tidbit: Bureaucracy may Cost the OSDD a Year of Funding
The Times of India reports that the funding for the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) came to an end at the conclusion of the...
View ArticleHealth Ministry’s plans to compulsorily licence Dasatinib hits DIPP roadblock
News reports indicate that the Government has been treading carefully regarding decisions to compulsorily licence drugs. This is in the wake of severe criticism of the Indian IP regime from Big Pharma...
View ArticleIPAB guards against Trademark Bullying- Jones Investment Co v. Vishnupriya...
In a decision delivered on 24th February, 2014, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) affirmed that a multinational company cannot claim infringement of trademark by a local Indian company...
View ArticleJoin INTA and More than 7,700 Trademark Professionals in Hong Kong
As many of you know, this year the INTA Annual Meeting will be hosted for the first time in Asia. Although the Hong Kong Meeting is still one month away, more than 7,700 attendees from over 140...
View ArticleAt SpicyIP We Love IPR, Ab Ki Baar…
Unless you have been hibernating or have a strong resolve to completely avoid social media, chances are that you have come across the latest viral ‘Ab Ki Baar, Modi Sarkar’ meme doing the rounds....
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Astrazeneca sues Glenmark for infringement of anti-diabetes...
UK based Astrazeneca has sued Indian drugmaker Glenmark for patent infringement of its drug Saxagliptin, an anti-diabetes drug. The dispute arose due to Glenmark’s production and export of the drug...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review – 31st March to 6th April
We started this week with Mathews reporting on the stay granted by the IPAB on the Chennai Patent Office’s order revoking Pfizer’s patent in the drug Detrol (read our original post here). The IPAB...
View ArticleSpicyIP Tidbit: Sun Pharmaceuticals-Ranbaxy deal
Sun Pharmaceuticals, one of India’s largest drugmakers is acquiring competitor Ranbaxy Laboratories for $3.2 billion from Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo Co. Daiichi Sankyo, the majority shareholder in Ranbaxy...
View ArticleThomson Reuters’ Report on Research and Innovation Performance: India sees...
Thomson Reuters has recently come out with a report titled ‘Research and Innovation Performance of the G20’ where scientific research and patent information has been mined to study the scale and impact...
View ArticleUNITAID on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
UNITAID, which is hosted and administered by World Health Organisation, in its report titled “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Implications for Access to Medicines and Public Health”...
View ArticleNovartis sues Biocon over anti-diabetes drug vildagliptin: Bitter pill?
A year after the Glivec saga and looks like Novartis is leaving no stone unturned to protect its blockbuster anti-diabetic vildagliptin. According to news reports, Novartis filed a suit seeking an...
View ArticleThe Punjab Police to be Sued for Producing a Pirated CD in Court
The Economic Times reports that director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is contemplating legal action against the Punjab Police for producing a pirated CD as evidence in a proceeding to quash an FIR registered...
View ArticleSpicyIP Weekly Review (7th April to 13th April, 2014)
SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! On 10th April, Thomson Reuters released a report titled ‘The Research and Innovation Performance of the G20’ highlighting the decisions taken in respect of scientific...
View Article2013′s leading IP developments report – an update
A big thanks to our readers who’ve sent in suggestions for our upcoming SpicyIP report on 2013′s leading IP developments - namely, Shashank Mangal, Nehaa Chaudhari and two anonymous comments sent in....
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