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Update: Wuhan Court Rejects Application to Reconsider Anti-Suit Injunction...
Image from here We had earlier extensively covered the development involving anti-suit injunction granted by the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court and the anti-anti-suit injunction granted by the Delhi...
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NFSI Panel Discussion on ‘TRIPS Waiver Proposal – State of Play and the Way...
We’re pleased to inform you that an online panel discussion on ‘TRIPS Waiver Proposal – State of Play and the Way forward’ is being organised on 18th December at 7:30 PM IST. For registration and other...
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Call for Papers: NUALS’ Book on ‘Pandemics: Health, Human Rights and...
We’re pleased to inform you that NUALS, Kochi is inviting papers for a book on the theme ‘Pandemics: Health, Human Rights and Intellectual Property Perspectives’. For details, please see the...
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The Fate of a Pre-Grant Opposition Filed after Refusal of Patent Application...
A still from Dr. Rajkumar’s iconic song, available here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Amit Tailor, analysing an interesting question about maintainability of a pre-grant opposition...
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LexisNexis Webinar on ‘Understand the Innovation Landscape of Global Video...
We’re pleased to inform you that LexisNexis is organizing a webinar on ‘Understand the Innovation Landscape of Global Video Conference Technology’ on December 23, 2020. For further details, please read...
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India on TRIPS Waiver: Will WTO Pass the Test of Humanity?
Hopefully this isn’t the game India, through its Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the WTO, delivered a short but strong statement at the WTO TRIPS General Council Meeting held between 16-18th...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 14 – 20)
Topical Highlight India on TRIPS Waiver: Will WTO pass the test of humanity? Hopefully this isn’t the game Swaraj gave us an overview of India’s statement on the on-going TRIPS Waiver proposal,...
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SEPs and Confidentiality Clubs: Protecting Fair Play from Excessive Secrecy
Image from here InterDigital, in its ongoing SEP infringement dispute with Xiaomi, proposed a Confidentiality Club for sharing confidential documents to assess whether the licensing terms being offered...
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The Section 3(e) Soup: What makes for Synergistic Effect?
Image from here Earlier this month, Pune-based home maker Shubhangi Patil was granted a patent over her unique Ragi-walnut Soup Mix Composition. The mix claims to combine Ragi (finger millet) and...
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Time to More Seriously Question the Spectre of Copyright in the Realm of...
And this is SSRN, one of the more accessible platforms! Several students and researchers may have noted that social media was recently abuzz with the news that SciHub and LibGen were being taken to...
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IPAB’s Order Staying ‘N95’ Trademark Registration Highlights Systemic Failures
Image from here (By Banej – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) Introduction In an order earlier this month, the IPAB issued an interim stay of the operation of the trademark registration for the word ‘N95’...
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Supreme Court Revisits the Tribunal Culture (yet again); Upholds the Validity...
Image from here Adding to an existing trail of decisions on administration of the tribunals, the Supreme Court on 27/11/2020 passed a detailed judgement in Madras High Court Bar Association v. Union of...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 21 – 27)
Topical Highlight Time to More Seriously Question the Spectre of Copyright in the Realm of Education Swaraj reported that SciHub and LibGen were taken to court by Elsevier UK, Wiley India, Wiley...
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The Legality of the Appointment of the 5 Technical Members to the IPAB
Prashant Reddy, one of our most prolific bloggers, is back with a guest post, questioning the legality of the appointment of the 5 Technical Members made to the IPAB earlier this year. The Legality of...
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Sci-Hub and Libgen Up against Academic Publishers: A Death Knell for Access...
Image from here and here Recently, Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society have filed a copyright infringement suit in the Delhi High Court against two groups of websites going by the names...
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Sci-Hub and Libgen Up against Academic Publishers: A Death Knell for Access...
Images from here and here This post is in continuation to my previous post (here) discussing the copyright infringement suit filed by academic publishers against Sci-Hub and Libgen, particularly the...
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Sci-Hub and Libgen Up against Academic Publishers: A Death Knell for Access...
Image from here This post is in continuation of my previous posts dealing with the background on the copyright infringement suit against Sci-Hub and Libgen (here) and the applicability of the fair...
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Copyright and the Sci-Hub/Libgen Case: A Constitutional Query
By now, most readers are likely to be aware of the case against the shadow libraries Sci-Hub and LibGen, by three publishing houses. We had a post questioning why ‘poorer’ countries were still allowing...
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‘Jhund’ Injunction Order: Copyright and Personality Rights in Real Life Stories
Image from here We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Shivam Kaushik, analysing the Telangana High Court’s order granting an interim injunction restraining the release of the film ‘Jhund’ in...
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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2020
Image from here (This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Fellows Adyasha Samal, Anupriya Dhonchak and Nikhil Purohit.) Here’s wishing all our readers a very happy, safe and healthy new year!...
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