SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (11.08.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: oriGIn Some bells are about protecting a product. Others are about giving the communities behind that product a voice. This week’s bell goes to oriGIn (Organization for an International Geographical Indications Network), a global alliance bringing together around 600 […]

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How Much Evidence Is Enough? The Evidentiary Threshold for Interim Injunctions in Saregama v. Ilaiyaraaja

How much evidence is enough to establish copyright ownership at the interim stage? Unpacking the Delhi High Court’s latest decision in the Saregama-Ilaiyaraaja case, Umeshwari Ranjan explains how the decision offers an important answer, while leaving some questions unanswered about assignment validity, irreparable injury, and the scope of decades-old rights in the age of digital exploitation. Umeshwari is a third-year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, and an IDIA Scholar. Her academic interests lie in Intellectual

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 3- August 9)

[The Weekly Review is authored by Vishwas Kumar Tripathi. Vishwas is a 4th year law student at RGNUL, Patiala.] Posts on MeitY’s stricter compliance rules for takedowns, Delhi High Court’s decision in HBO v. Streamzy[dot]to, Madras High Court’s Bolar judgement in Novartis v. Venkata Narayana Active Ingredients, and Delhi High Court’s Alphard decision. This and much more in the second SpicyIP weekly review for August. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. Highlights of

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Old Rule New Amnesia: A 6 Month Old Takedown Rule Rebranded as “Breaking News”

August 6th, Breaking News! The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has introduced stricter compliance rules for social media platforms, significantly reducing the time available to remove “unlawful” content from 36 hours to 3 hours of receiving a government or court notice, and from 24 hours to 2 hours for sensitive content! (here, here, here) But wait, it seems like a déjà vu! Didn’t the February 2026 amendments to the The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)

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Dynamic Injunctions, Website Blocking, and the Limits of Section 79 of the IT Act: Analysing the Delhi High Court’s HBO Order

The Delhi High Court’s decision in Home Box Office Inc. v. Streamzy.To attempts to strike a balance between the need to effectively combat online piracy and the concerns raised by increasingly expansive website-blocking orders. Explaining the order, Vikram Raj Nanda examines whether the Court’s approach marks a meaningful course correction in the law on dynamic injunctions, and whether its framework for involving ISPs and domain name registrars truly preserves their role as neutral intermediaries. Vikram is a fourth-year student at

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Bearing the Burdens of Bolar

The Madras High Court’s decision in Novartis AG v. Venkata Narayana Active Ingredients offers the first post-trial examination of the evidence required to invoke Section 107A for exports to get regulatory approval. While the Court’s attempt to bring greater evidentiary clarity to the Bolar exemption is welcome, Arnav Kaman argues that its approach risks placing burdens on manufacturers that may undermine the provision’s underlying purpose. Arnav is a 5th-year law student from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He’s

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Beyond Prius? The DHC’s ALPHARD Decision on Trans-Border Reputation

Introduction  The Delhi High Court (“DHC”), on 4th May 2026 in Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha v. Tech Square Engineering Pvt. Ltd., overturned a Single Judge judgment (2023) and granted the mark “ALPHARD” well-known status while affirming its trans-border reputation. The judgment is noteworthy as it has articulated a test for trans-border reputation and has also observed that in luxury/niche markets, brand visibility and global reputation drive consumer awareness and not mass penetration.  In this blog post, I break down the judgment,

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (03.08.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Some bells don’t just ring in libraries, they resonate in legislatures.  When we think about copyright reform, we often think of governments, courts and international treaties. Rarely do we think of the organisations

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (27 July-2 August)

Stepping into August with posts on the DHC’s order in ANI v. OpenAI, Interdigital v Transsion, the Ribociclib saga, and digital archive. This and much more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. Highlights of the Week ANI v. OpenAI: User Rights, Fair Dealing, and the Future of AI in Indian Copyright Law (Part I) The Delhi High Court’s much-awaited interim order in ANI v. OpenAI addresses several

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Part II: Small Fines, Big Platforms: The CCPA on PhysicsWallah, McAfee, and the Cost of Getting Caught

Part I of the post examined the CCPA’s orders against PhysicsWallah and McAfee, and argued that neither the misleading-advertisement nor the forced-action findings in McAfee sit comfortably within their own definitions. In Part II, Anjali Tripathi and Kartik Sharma turn to the deeper problem those findings point at. Anjali is a lawyer, writer and artist with an interdisciplinary interest in critical approaches to law, visual storytelling, and design. She writes on technology, IP and culture. Kartik is a law graduate

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