May 2015 – Page 4

Right to Be Forgotten: A Threat to Freedom of Speech & Expression?

May 15, 2015 / By Devika Agarwal / Copyright, Privacy

It has been almost a year since the European Court of Justice ruled that Google must respond to take-down requests by users alleging that search results on Google violate their right to privacy, a case popularly known as the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) case. The case is one of the many instances where the European Court has upheld the right to privacy of an individual, and while the ruling is an important win for individual rights, the judgment raises […]

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Opposition to Sugen’s Lung Cancer Drug Patent Withdrawn

May 12, 2015 / By Rupali Samuel / Patent

Sugen Inc. has sidestepped a post grant opposition to its lung cancer drug Xalkori (crizotinib) after what seems like a settlement with opponent Fresenius Kabi Oncology Ltd. Also engaged in the development and manufacture of cancer drugs, Fresenius Kabi filed two post grant oppositions to Sugen’s Xalkori patent in 2012 on multiple grounds. On 29th April, 2015, the Controller issued a decision allowing Fresenius Kabi’s request for withdrawal of their oppositions. It is unclear how and why this withdrawal came about, with

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Job Vacancies at Lawyer’s Collective

May 12, 2015 / By Anubha Sinha / Sponsored

This is to inform our readers that there are vacancies at Lawyer’s Collective for a Legal Officer & a Technical Officer. More details about the positions follow. Location: New Delhi Date of joining: June/July 2015 Contract duration: One year (extendable) Salary: Negotiable. JOB PROFILE: The Legal Officer will work with the Affordable Medicines & Treatment Campaign (AMTC) team on drafting and filing Patent Oppositions. The work profile also includes making appearances at various patent controllers’ offices for pre and post

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SpicyIP Event : 3rd Annual Information Technology Legal Summit (ITLS) 2015

May 12, 2015 / By Kiran George / Event, Sponsored

3rd Annual Information Technology Legal Summit (ITLS) 2015 19th June, 2015 Novotel Techpark, Bengaluru http://www.itlegalsummit.com DOWNLOAD SUMMIT AGENDA | REGISTER NOW !!! 30% off for SpicyIP Readers !!! Please find the details of the summit below : SUMMIT CONCEPT Lex Witness takes pride in announcing The 3rd Annual Information Technology Legal Summit 2015 scheduled for 19th June 2015 in Bengaluru. Yes, a summit that aims to focus on the nation’s industry sector, which is the world’s largest sourcing destination,

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Accosting Drug Costs: The Elusive Holy Grail?

May 12, 2015 / By Shamnad Basheer / Innovation, Patent

So how do we get big pharma to disclose their drug costs? Mandate them through a legislation, one might say. Well, a couple of US states are now trying it, but facing rather serious resistance from drug makers. After all, it can’t be easy to get to the holiest of the holy grails when it comes to drug innovation: namely drug costs. For this is a bluff that cannot be called without serious repercussions for the mainstream model around which

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The Extra-Territorial Reach of (SE)Patents? The case against SEP portfolio licensing

May 10, 2015 / By Rajiv Kr. Choudhry / Competition Law, Patent

One of the first things that law students are taught is that among the various rights granted by a sovereign, patents too are territorial in nature. Simply put, patents granted by India are valid in India, and not valid in United States (US) or Pakistan, etc. and vice versa. Existing scholarship including case law in the US, focuses on the outbound impact of intellectual property rights (IPR), with patent laws being the focus of attention. See, for example, US 35

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Whose Dream Was It Anyway? Plagiarism and Martin Luther King Jr.

May 10, 2015 / By Balaji Subramanian / Copyright, Others

If you had to compile a list of events that shaped American, and even world history in the last century, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech would certainly rank high. It’s got all the ingredients that go into the making of an epochal moment – mass appeal, powerful rhetoric and a clear marker of change in the centuries-old battlefield of race relations. King’s contribution to the civil rights movement can’t be denied – in fact, to talk

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Indian IP Policy: Two Tongued?

A week or so ago, I’d emailed our SpicyIP mailing group with the following message (and linking to Kumar Sharma’s piece in Business Today): “Apparently, Modi-ji wants India to adhere to “global” IP standards (see extract of article from Business Standard, by Kumar Sharma, one of the most insightful journalists today on the Indian IP/pharma scene). And pray: what are these “global” standards? If its the TRIPS standard (the only real global IP standard in existence today), then we are very much in compliance. And there

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Consilience 2015- Net Neutrality

May 6, 2015 / By L. Gopika Murthy / Event

We would like to bring to your attention Consilience 2015- NLSIU’s annual conference on matters relating to law and technology. The information provided by the organizers is reproduced below. The concept note, poster and the basics of net neutrality are available here, here and here. The Law and Technology Society (L-Tech) at NLSIU is proud to bring to you our annual conference Consilience, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference is the raging hot topic of Net Neutrality. For those of

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