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Call for Submissions: NLUJ Centre for Intellectual Property Studies Blog
We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Intellectual Property Studies at National Law University, Jodhpur is inviting submissions for its blog on a rolling basis. For further details, please...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 26 – November 1)
Topical Highlight Image from here Mountain Dew Trademark Battle: David v. Goliath or Misapplication of Prior User Rights? In this post, Adyasha analyses the decision of the City Civil Court of...
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Is Intermediary Liability Decision in Shree Krishna Int’l v. YouTube...
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Arth Nagpal and Harsh Srivastava, analysing Gurugram District Court’s decision on intermediary liability for copyright infringement in...
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Trademark Renewal Procedure: A Slip in IPAB’s Decision in Eveready Industries...
Image from here The judgement of the IPAB (dated September 22, 2020) in Eveready Industries India Ltd v. Mrs. Kamlesh Chadha concerns original rectification petitions against two trademark...
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RTI on Opposition Details Reveals Concerning (and Possibly Wrong?) Numbers
Image from here [This post was co-authored with Praharsh Gour.] Long time readers may remember earlier posts by Prashant (in 2017 and 2012), looking into opposition disposal and pendency rates. In a...
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Retroactive Trademark Assignment Agreements: Another Slip in IPAB’s Decision...
Image from here In my earlier post on the IPAB’s decision (dated September 22, 2020) in Eveready Industries India Ltd. v. Mrs. Kamlesh Chadha, I had introduced the case and covered the issue concerning...
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The Issue of Sovereignty and Grant of Patents in Anti-Anti-Suit Injunction...
SpicyIP recently reported on the Delhi High Court judgment in a SEP dispute where an anti-anti-suit injunction was issued against the anti-suit injunction issued by the Wuhan Court (Interdigital v...
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Appeals to Controllers’ Decisions at IPAB – Part I: Manner in Which the...
We’re excited to bring our readers a two part post by Amit Tailor that digs into the manner in which patent appeals are managed and handled. The first part observes a worrying trend regarding...
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Appeals to Controllers’ Decisions at IPAB – Part II: The Current Practice of...
This is the second part of a two part post by Amit Tailor that digs into the manner in which patent appeals are managed and handled. The first part looked into a worrying trend regarding representation...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 2- 8)
Topical Highlight Trademark Renewal Procedure: A Slip in IPAB’s Decision in Eveready Industries v. Kamlesh Chadha? Image from here In this post, Adarsh notes the IPAB decision in Eveready Industries...
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Amendments to the Copyright Act: Hidden Consultations and the Missing Public...
Image from here A few weeks ago, NASSCOM had informed its members that the Copyright Office is seeking comments as to whether there was a need for amendments to be carried out to the Copyright Act....
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Amendments to the Copyright Act: Hidden Consultations and the Missing Public...
Image from here This post is in continuation to my previous post (here) highlighting the implications of closed door consultations on amendments to the Copyright Act. Here, I discuss some of the major...
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Indian Government Significantly Dilutes Patent Working Disclosure Norms
Image from here As our readers may recall, in June last year, the Government had published a draft amendment to Form 27 for comments. The amendment exercise was undertaken pursuant to the patent...
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The New Form 27 (Patent Working Statement): Heading in the Wrong Direction?
Image from here As Pankhuri noted in a recent post, the Government of India published the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2020 last month, inter alia, amending the format/contents of the working statements...
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Call for Abstracts: Third IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference...
We are pleased to inform our readers that the Third IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference will be held online from March 24-27, 2021. The deadline for submission of the request to present...
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Mirzapur 2 Controversy: The Right to Integrity and Free Speech
Image from here Recently, the Amazon Prime web series Mirzapur 2 stirred up controversy over the use of a book as a prop alongwith a voiceover that the author claimed misrepresented his book and...
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Topical Highlight Amendments to the Copyright Act: Hidden Consultations and the Missing Public Angle of Copyright Law – Part I In the first of this two-part post, Nikhil discussed the consultation...
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Trademark Trolls: Perspectives, Pitfalls and the Way Forward
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Manvee Kumar Saidha, analysing the effect of ‘first to use’ and ‘first to file’ regimes on trademark trolling, in light of the attention...
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India vs Pakistan: Dispute over Basmati’s GI Registration in the European Union
Image from here Recently, the aromatic, long grain rice known as ‘Basmati’, became another source of conflict between India and Pakistan. It isn’t the first time that a European GI registration for...
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As 15 Asia Pacific Countries Sign RCEP, India Chooses to Sit Out
Image from here Last week, ten south-east Asian countries along with Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand signed the Agreement on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)...
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