2013

CPI(M): Government negotiating adverse FTA terms

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Source The Indo-EU FTA has been a cause for concern for a long time now, with serious worries expressed by both industry people and political parties in India. Recently, the party CPI(M) lashed out at the government for having proceeded with the FTA without any scrutiny by Parliament or other democratic institutions, despite so many disadvantageous terms in the FTA . Last week, Amul had expressed its worries about the domestic dairy sector taking a huge hit if EU products […]

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India Joins the International Trademark System

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Yesterday, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Anand Sharma submitted India’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). MR. Sharma is attending a High Level Policy Dialogue on “Innovation and Development: The Indian Experience” at the WIPO. The treaty will come into force with respect to India from July 8, 2013. Mr. Sharma and Mr. Gurry at the WIPO yesterday(Photo: WIPO/Berrod) The main attraction of the Madrid System

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Thalappakatti biryani trademark row

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The southern district of Dindigal in Tamil Nadu occupies a special place in the hearts of biryani lovers. In the late 1950s, one Nagasamy Naidu opened a biryani eatery under the name ‘Ananda Vilas Biryani’ in Dindigal. As he always wore a turban (or thalapa in Tamil) to cover his bald head, folks in the town referred to him as ‘Thalappakatti Naidu’. Soon, his savory biryani acquired a wide popularity and ‘Thalappakatti Naidu Biryani’ became synonymous with the eatery. His

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April- Week 1)

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SpicyIP Posts Image from here The week started with Rajiv informing us about the new online certificate course on IP offered by the FICCI. For more see here.  This was followed by my post on the Bombay HC’s ruling in the Zanjeer remake controversy. The court has conditionally allowed the producer of the remade Zanjeer (Amit Mehra) to proceed with making of the film. However, its release is contingent on the final outcome of the on-going arbitration proceedings. The court

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FICCI announces online certificate course on IPR and pharmaceutical R&D

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Registrations are Open for the May – October 2013 session of online certificate course on IPR and pharmaceutical R&D (CCIPR) being conducted by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). The Course provides a platform to understand the working of pharmaceutical industry, its business models, research, regulatory aspects and its relevance with respect to intellectual property rights. This is first of its kind of course introduced with specific focus on the interlinking between the pharmaceutical industry and IPR.

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Investors protest Rise in Royalty Rates paid by Asian Subsidiaries of MNCs: The Trend continues

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Image from here Readers may remember a piece of news that I had carried in the blog few months back (see here and here) about the new relaxation in the Indian regulatory norms about the ceiling of payment that Indian branches of MNCs can make to their parent companies by way of royalties and technology transfer fees. The apprehension at that point of time was how this relaxation could be exploited by the MNCs to milk the profit out of

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The salt form jinx:Delhi HC denies interim relief to Merck

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The Delhi HC (Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw) refused to grant interim relief to Merck (plaintiff) seeking to restrain Glenmark (defendant) from launching its products Zita and Zita met. We had blogged about it here and here. The High court however kept the main petition of the US firm pending for evidence filing and other legal proceedings on July 16.The order passed on Friday can be accessed here.Following is summary of arguments presented by either side. (Long post warning!)  Image from

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Court Stays the Screeening of Ketan Mehta’s Film

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Image from here As reported here, Ketan Mehta’s attempt to convert Dashrath Manjhi’s life story into a movie has hit a road block as the screening of the film has been stayed by the Civil Court of Patna due to a suit filed by filmmaker Dhananjay Kapoor.  Dashrath Manjhi’s or the ‘mountain breaker’ is famed to have hammered through a hillock with a chisel (it took him 22 years). This endeavor was carried out by him for his beloved wife.  Reports

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Deconstructing the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Novartis-Glivec patent case

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As promised in our last post, here is a more detailed analysis of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Novartis case rejecting the patent application for the beta-crystalline form of imatinib mesylate (known as Glivec – “claimed invention”).  But first, here are some links to the coverage of the case by some of the top blogs in the U.S. and the U.K.: Patently O which featured two posts, one by Professor Dennis Crouch and the second post on the same

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Ramesh Sippy faces setback: Bombay High Court allowed Production of Sholay in 3-D to continue

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DIRECTOR KAUN THA? KAUN THA DIRECTOR?Image from here Much like the evergreen appeal of the cult movie Sholay remains unabated despite the passage of time, so too the various contentions and litigations surrounding the rights relating to this movie refuse to die down. This latest debate has arisen in relation to the 3-D version of the movie that has been announced to be in pipeline some time back by Sasha, nephew of Ramesh Sippy. Ramesh Sippy, who had directed the

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