De-Coding Indian Intellectual Property Law

Information pertaining to the second investigation by the Registrar of Copyright against IPRS

(i) 8 December, 2011: Letter from Chairperson of IPRS to Registrar of Copyrights;

(ii) 24 December - 26 December, 2011: Complaint by Javed Akhtar etc. to Mr. Kapil Sibal against IPRS;

(iii) 14 January - 24 January, 2011: Questionnaire sent to IPRS by the Registrar of Copyrights;

(iv) 3 February - 18 February, 2011: Reply sent by IPRS;

(v) File noting dated 23rd of February, 2011 by Registrar of Copyrights.   

 

Online file inspection of Ram Kumar's Patent File

(i) Abstract

(ii) Claims

(iii) Correspondence from Ram Kumar to the Chennai Patent Office

(iv) Correspondence from the Chennai Patent Office to Ram Kumar

(v) Form 2 - Patent Specification

(vi) Form 2 - Duplicate

(vii) Specification - Continued

(viii) Form 1 - Application for grant of patent

(ix) Request for Examination and other Correspondence from Ramkumar  

 

SpicyIP RTI Campaign to unearth 'working' information 

 (i) Scanned copies of all the Form 27s received from the Patent Office under the RTI Act

(ii) SpicyIP Report on RTI Applications & 'working' of foreign drugs in India? 

 

Financing University Research - Waking a Sleeping Giant 

by Dr. Roya Ghafele, University of Oxford 

 

IPA's position paper on

(i) Data Exclusivity 

 

Soundbox Vol. 1 Iss. 7 February, 2011 

(i) Interview with Javed Akhtar at page 20. 

 

RTI information on the IPAB 

(i)    All the resumes/applications made by IPAB members to the DIPP prior to their appointment; 

(ii) The entire personnel files for the following IPAB members  

(a)   Syed Obaidur Rahaman;

(b)   S. UshaPart IPart II; 

(c)   S. Chandrashekharan

(d)   Dr. Raghbir Singh Part I; Part II;

(e) Z.S.Negi  

(iii) The complaint by S. Usha against the CGPDTM;

(iv) The IPAB Salaries & Allowances Rules;

(v) Information on facilities at the IPAB;

(vi) Various covering letters to the RTI Applications.

 

SpicyIP Expose 

(i) The fifteen letters exchanged between IPRS, the Registrar of Copyrights and Lyricists/Composers between January and November, 2009. 

(ii) Memorandum of Understanding between IPRS-IPI-PPL dated 12 November, 1995. 

(iii) Minutes of IPRS's 37th Annual General Meeting on the 5th of January, 2008. 

 

Order of the Registrar of Trademarks revoking the 'MANJAL' mark

(i) In the matter of Registered Trade Mark Application No. 1109980 in Class 3 in the name of M/s Oriental Extractions Pvt. Ltd. & In the matter of Rectification No. 259345 in Class 3 in the name of Mr. S. Siva Subramaniyan, Polaythodu, Mundakkal, Kollam - 691001 

 

(ii) The second order dated 10 February, 2011

 

Annual Revenues of PPL & IPRS 

 (i) PPL (2005-06) - Part IPart II 

(ii) PPL (2006-07) - Annual Report

(iii) PPL (2007-08) - Profit & Loss Account

(iv) PPL (2008-09) - Part IPart II

(v) PPL (2009-2010) - Auditors Report

(vi) IPRS (2003-04) - Director's Report 

(vii) IPRS (2006-07) - Annual Report 

(viii) IPRS (2007-08) - Annual Report

(ix) IPRS (2008-09) - Part IPart II  

(x) IPRS - Profit & Loss Account for: 2005-062006-07 & 2008-09 

 

Special Resolutions passed by the Annual General Meetings of IPRS Ltd. & other IPRS documents 

(i) Article of Association (1969)

(ii) Resolution dated 21 September, 1991;

(iii) Resolution dated 2 September, 1996;

(iv) Resolution dated 21 September, 2000;

(v) The Altered AoA after the above three resolutions;  

(vi) The Resolution dated 5 January, 2008;

(vi) The new AoA dated 5 January, 2008;

(vii) The new MoA dated 5 January, 2008

(viii) Board Resolution seeking postponement of AGM in 2007;

(ix) Permission by RoC to delay AGM till December, 2007

(x) IPRS's Registration Certification from the Copyright Office;

(xi) Memorandum of Association (1969)

 

The Litigation between Saregama and IPRS before the Civil Judge (Senior Division) Barasat, West Bengal

(i) Saregama India Ltd. v. IPRS; Title Suit No. 10 of 2005 before Shri. H.S. Ghosh Hazra, Civil Judge (Senior Division) Barasat , North 24 Parganas, West Bengal dated 22.9.2005;  

 

(ii) Saregama India Ltd. v. IPRS; Title Suit No. 124 of 2006 before Shri. H.S. Ghosh Hazra, Civil Judge (Senior Division) Barasat , North 24 Parganas, West Bengal dated 22.9.2005

 

Enercon (India) Limited v. Alloys Wobben before the IPAB

1. Order No. 243 of 2010 of the IPAB 

2. Order No. 239 of 2010 of the IPAB revoking patent no: 197959

3. Order No. 244 of 2010 of the IPAB revoking patent no: 202887 

 

PIL Against the IPAB 

(i) Shamnad Basheer v. Union of India W.P. No. 1256 of 2011 before the Madras High Court 

 

PIL Against the Copyright Board

(i) SIMCA v. Union of India W.P. No. 1212 of 2011 before the Madras High Court 

 

Letter from the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to India's Minister of Commerce lobbying for Gilead 

 

B.Braun Patent Case

Internal Investigation by the IPO 

 

Saregama India Ltd. v. Puneet Prakash Mehra & Ors. Suit No. 112 of 2010 

(i) Division Bench Order dated 1st October, 2010 

 

NUJS-Max Planck IP Conference 2010 

(i) Poster 

(ii) Schedule  

(iii) Presentations by speakers

 

D.M. Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. v. Baby Gift House & Ors. Suit No. 893 of 2002 before the High Court of Delhi 

(i) Judgment of Justice Ravinder Bhat dated 29th April, 2010 

 

Bharat Boghilal Patel's patents  

(i) 610-MUM-1998 - Part I/Part II

(ii) 611-MUM-1998 

  

Patents (Appeals and Applications to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board) Rules, 2010

 Draft rules

 

Roche v. Matrix C.S (OS) No. 801 of 2010 before the High Court of Madras

Order of the Single Judge granting an ex-parte injunction against Matrix 

 

Compulsory licensing dispute 

Order of the Copyright Board in the case of ENIL v. PPL (& Othrs)  

 

RTI Applications and Answers regarding the appointment of the current Chairperson of the Copyright Board

(i) First RTI Application 

(ii) Answers to the first RTI Application

(iii) Second RTI Application

(iv) Answers to the second RTI Application

(v) Second Page of the answers to the second RTI Application 

 

Submissions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee 

Shamnad Basheer & Prashant Reddy T., Submissions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Copyright Amendment Bill 2010 

 

IP Papers

Shamnad Basheer and Shouvik Guha "Patenting of Publicly Funded Research: Some Suggestions for India" (draft)

 

IP Videos

Patent Moot Court


IP CONFERENCES

 

CII Conference on Patent Strategies

 

 

NUJS Conference on Indian "Bayh Dole"

 

Speaker Presentations:

 

Josh Sarnoff

Susan Finston

Shamnad Basheer

Amit Ray

Rekha Chaturvedi

V Premnath

Vivekanandan

Shashwat Purohit

Parthiban Srinivasan

NS Gopalakrishnan

 

 

 

IP LEGISLATIONS

 

Indian Patents Act 1970 (as amended upto 2005)

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IP CASES

 

Novartis vs Union of India (IPAB rejecting Glivec patent)

Ramkumar vs Samsung (Order of High Court directing Customs Authorities to apply the law)

Roche vs Cipla (Delhi HC (Appeal) decision

Ramkumar Case: Reply letter to Customs by Hansum India

Ramkumar Case: Complete Patent Specification (as Granted)

M/s Hotel Hilltone Ltd. v. M/s Hilton International Corporation (Judgment of the Additional District Judge, Mount Abu, Sirohi, Rajasthan) 

 

IP REPORTS


Ayyangar Committee Report

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IP ARTICLES

 

Protecting Hidden Value (India Business Law Journal)

Strategies to Protect IP Portfolio (India Business law Journal)

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

PPL Correspondence

 

Analysis of the Patent Agent Examination Results

by Rajiv Kr. Choudhry