2016

Extension of Deadline to 31 January 2016: IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship

/ By / Others

Inter University Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT is offering Two Summer Fellowships under ‘IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship’ program during the period April – June 2016. IUCIPRS has instituted this Fellowship to encourage teachers interested in IP research in India to spend minimum of two months during summer (April to June) at IUCIPRS undertaking research work in IP. Eligibility: Applicants shall be a teacher in any University/College in India for less than 10 years. Preference shall be […]

Extension of Deadline to 31 January 2016: IUCIPRS Justice Rajagopala Ayyangar Summer Fellowship Read More »

Announcing the 2016-17 SpicyIP Fellowship!

/ By / Others

We’re very happy to announce the next edition of the SpicyIP Annual Fellowship! Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the Fellowship, and we look forward to hearing from those of you who would like to join our team of bloggers. Happily, our earlier SpicyIP Fellows follow in the tradition of being invited to stay on with the SpicyIP Team, so you will continue to hear from Balaji Subramanian, Kartik Chawla and Kiran George on the blog. The

Announcing the 2016-17 SpicyIP Fellowship! Read More »

Accessing Ayyangar Openly: SpicyIP Teams with EBC

/ By / Patent, Trademark

Open access lies at the heart of SpicyIP’s mission to democratize the discussion around intellectual property rights. Fortunately for us, we’ve been blessed with some wonderful partners in the past. One that stands out is Eastern Book Company Pvt Ltd (EBC), a leading legal publishing house. First, they agreed (upon our request) to create a savvy searchable digital duplicate of the Ayyangar Committee Report on Patents. We uploaded it on our SpicyIP resources page, and here is the precise link for those interested

Accessing Ayyangar Openly: SpicyIP Teams with EBC Read More »

Right of Publicity in India – An Unfinished Story

/ By / Privacy, Trademark

(This post summarizes a recent matter that had the Delhi HC delving into the subject of publicity rights, and goes on to examine the current degree of legal recognition accorded to publicity rights in India) The present matter had Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, the Chairman of the Tata Group suing the defendant for refusing to part with two domain names that the latter owned in the former’s name – www.cyrusmistry.co.uk and www.cyrusmistry.co . It appears that the domain names were created barely a month after

Right of Publicity in India – An Unfinished Story Read More »

Trademarks Registry Official among three convicted in graft case

/ By / Trademark

Three persons, including a former Deputy Registrar of Trade Marks Registry, were recently convicted by the CBI Court in a corruption case. The Anti Corruption Branch of CBI had registered a case in 2011 against ND Kasturi, the then Deputy Registrar, Trade Marks Registry, Chennai, for allegedly accepting illegal gratification. [For Indiatoday report, see here.] We had earlier covered her arrest in 2011 here  and here. For the benefit of readers, I am reproducing excerpts: “……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Mrs. Kasturi was arrested for possessing

Trademarks Registry Official among three convicted in graft case Read More »

Copyfraud, Collecting Societies and Quixotic Crusades

/ By / Copyright

More than a year ago, a curious incident cropped up in the copyright circles. Saint Tyagaraja’s music (recorded by various Carnatic music enthusiasts and uploaded on select YouTube channels) was hit with a copyright claim! An all too pliant YouTube immediately took down the content, thereby placating the purported copyright owner. Bizarre to say the least, since the good saint had by then been dead a good 200 years! And had never ever claimed copyright, if ever there was such

Copyfraud, Collecting Societies and Quixotic Crusades Read More »

SpicyIP Jobs: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at ARCIALA, SMU (School of Law)

/ By / Others, Sponsored

SpicyIP is happy to announce an exciting opportunity for scholars interested in working on Asian and comparative IP law- the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA) at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, has an opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. The Centre was inaugurated in May 2015, recognising the growth potential of Asia and the need for effective and practical policies to channel this potential by encouraging creativity and innovation. It aims

SpicyIP Jobs: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at ARCIALA, SMU (School of Law) Read More »

SpicyIP Jobs: Research positions under MHRD IP Chair, IIT Madras

/ By / Others, Sponsored

It might be of interest to some of our readers that the MHRD IP Chair at IIT Madras is looking to recruit a Research Associate (full-time) and Research Interns (till March 2016). More details on these positions are below: Recruitment for the Post of Research Associate Applications are invited for the post of Full-Time Research Associate (01) under the MHRD IPR Chair at IIT Madras. Candidates with a LL.B. / LL.M. degree having not less than 60% of marks may apply for

SpicyIP Jobs: Research positions under MHRD IP Chair, IIT Madras Read More »

SpicyIP Weekly Review (21st December – 2nd January)

/ By / Others

SpicyIP Highlight of the Week ! In this week’s highlight, I looked into the complexities associated with using a colour mark as a pharmaceutical trade dress, in the light of the trade mark infringement suit filed by AstraZeneca against Dr. Reddy’s alleging infringement of the former’s trademark for the purple colour of AsraZeneca’s antacid pill, Nexium, by Dr. Reddy’s generic version of the pill. Noting that the high standards of distinctiveness and likelihood of confusion required to be proved in

SpicyIP Weekly Review (21st December – 2nd January) Read More »

The Wow of the Now: Of Flow, Creativity and IP

/ By / Innovation

What once was new is now old And what is now new will soon be old And so it goes With friends and foes   Once a friend, now a foe And now a friend, but a foe before   Nothing to hold Nothing to last Each day is gold But flowing so fast   Regret not the past And fret not the future The moment is now Let’s make it a wow!   Happy “Now” Year to all of

The Wow of the Now: Of Flow, Creativity and IP Read More »

Scroll to Top