April 2009

World IP Day: "Transparency" Letter to the Indian Patent Office

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As the World Intellectual Property Day approaches (it falls on this coming Sunday, the 26th), we wanted to bring to your attention two things. One is a petition that we wish to submit to the Patent Office, as is detailed in this post below. The other is a surprise that will be offered upto you only on the “D” day. Petition for More Patent Information to be Made Public As for the petition that is the subject matter of this […]

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Intellectual Ventures comes to India and NO its not a ‘Big Bad Patent Troll’

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Intellectual Ventures (IV), an ‘Invention Capital’ company headquartered in Washington, has reportedly entered into an MoU with IIT-B to assist the latter in commercializing its inventions in the market place. As per a press release in regards the MoU, Intellectual Ventures “will both license IIT-B inventions accepted under this program and work on a number of possible commercialization strategies for them. Intellectual Ventures will pay IIT-B fees for such licensing and will also bear the patenting costs associated with these

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The "Mashelkar Committee Report" on Pharma Patenting Resurfaces!

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The Mashelkar Committee Report on pharmaceutical and micro-organism patents, a report that hogged headlines in 2007 for all the wrong reasons was resubmitted to the government recently.The revised committee report reiterates the same conclusions as the earlier report submitted at the fag end of 2006, albeit with more strong reasoning to back up its conclusions. In short, the Committee notes, and rightly so, that any attempt to exclude an entire class of inventions i.e. incremental pharmaceutical inventions would violate the

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The "Kurian" Effect: Increased Efficiency at the Indian Patent Office

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SpicyIP was greatly enthused when Mr PH Kurian was appointed as the first IAS officer to head the Indian patent office. We expressed the hope that: “…Mr Kurian’s appointment will usher in some fresh thinking at the Indian patent office. As many familiar with the Indian patent office are aware, fresh and innovative thinking is an absolute must for this office, which has hitherto been beset with several problems, including understaffing, lack of “specialised” examiners/controllers, sub optimal access to specialised

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Bollywood warned about Button remake

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US media giants, Warner Bros, have warned Bollywood against any attempts at remaking one of their latest hits “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” through a public notice in the Times of India newspaper and various Trade Magazines. “Recent press reports have indicated that certain parties are in the process of producing a film in Hindi based upon the aforementioned film,”A lawsuit will be slapped on anyone producing a film “either in English or Hindi or other language, having a

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EU-India FTA Negotiations continue : Details… Unknown.

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An agreement between the European Union and India slated to cover many areas including trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights, competition policy, government procurement etc. Sounds promising? Except the details of the same remain largely unknown. Begun in 2007, the EU-India rounds of negotiation to establish a Free Trade Agreement between the two, aims to have far reaching consequences in the way the trade is carried out. However, there have been several gaping holes in the proper

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Software Copyright Raids: Striking an Optimal Balance

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A. Introduction In two previous posts, we discussed the issue of software raids from two different perspectives. One from the point of view of a raided party, to whom such raids are often inequitable, and the other from the point of a view of an IP enforcer, to whom speedy enforcement is absolutely essential for protecting their valuable IP rights. In a previous post, I promised that we we would run a future post “synthesizing some of the more recent

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GREEN BRANDING – CASHING IN ON THE ECO-MARKET

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WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system. The WIPO Magazine, a bimonthly Magazine issued by WIPO (isn’t that a guess!) aims to inform readers about WIPO-led activities, and to show intellectual property, creativity and innovation at work across the world. Thus, the magazine features selected initiatives, policies, meetings, and other activities that have an impact WIPO’s work and the work of the

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Ensuring Transparent Functioning: Functioning of Patent Offices to be revamped

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Our readers will remember that the Mint and subsequently this blogger had not so long ago reported on alleged bias and corruption that ruled rampant in the Patent Offices across the country. It seems that those reports in fact made an impact! Announcing that the patent offices are now changing the process of examining applications, one of the Controller General of Patent, Design and Trademark (wishing to remain anonymous until an official order was released) further stated to the Mint

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Another Bajaj-TVS Showdown in the Offing?

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Readers may recall SpicyIP had extensively reported on Bajaj-TVS twin spark plug controversy around the same time early last year. It appears we will have more meat to chew on this year on a different technology but involving the two auto giants again. Yesterday it was reported in the Business Line that Bajaj was granted a patent 231498 dated March 5, 2009 by the Indian Patent office for its ‘ExhausTEC’ invention”. The press release issued by Bajaj states that ExhausTEC

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