Author name: Anubha Sinha

Anubha Sinha - @anubhasinha_ on Twitter — is a graduate of Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow, and presently works at the Centre for Internet and Society. She also blogs on www.cis-india.org

Breaking News: Nitto Denko v. UOI: Delhi HC addresses Patent Application Pendency

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Recently, the Delhi High Court kicked in some steps to clear the huge backlog at the Indian Patent Office in terms of clearing patent applications and devising effective strategy to maintain time bound processing of the applications. This post is about the latest order delivered by Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Nitto Denko v. UOI. In 2013, Nitto Denko went to the Court flagging inordinate delay in the examination of their patent applications […]

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MAELS 2014- 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit

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SpicyIP is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Media, Advertising and Entertainment Legal Summit (MAELS 2014). Details are as follows: An aggressive industry research that Lex Witness conducted within the various stakeholders of the industry reflects a lot of ambiguity in the understanding of the current legal & regulatory regime. The 3rd Annual Edition of Media, Advertising &Entertainment Legal Summit 2014 promises to brainstorm on the challenges faced by the Media, Advertising & Entertainment Industry and we shall together look

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CGPTDM launches tools to obtain real-time information on patent applications

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The Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks recently launched a couple of features on online search services for patents and trademarks to make the search process easier and provide transparent results. The features include innovative tools such as “Stock and Flow”- a utility which existed for trademarks, has now been extended to patents also. Reports suggest that the Indian Patent Office is the first in the world to achieve such transparency. The stock and flow facility has made work

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Allahabad High Court gives Plain Packaging of Cigarettes a go-ahead

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Plain packaging received a smokin’ thumbs up from the Allahabad High Court in July 2014. The Allahabad HC allowed a writ petition asking for implementation of plain packaging and directed the government to implement the scheme at the earliest. For the uninitiated, Plain packaging regulation aims at prohibiting logos, colors, and images from appearing on tobacco packages. Manufacturers are only permitted to print the brand name and descriptors in a standard font and size against a standard background color. You

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Japan pushes for TRIPS plus commitments in a regional FTA; Médecins Sans Frontières raises an alarm

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While PM Modi’s visit to Japan has been hailed as a huge success, especially after getting Japan to invest 35 billion dollars in India over the the next five years, it was only in the previous month at an entirely separate forum (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)) that Japan threw a potential spanner in the works by pushing for TRIPS plus provisions in the RCEP negotiation rounds held in Singapore.  However, PM Modi during his Japan visit expressed a general

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Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

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SpicyIP is pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India. The event will be tentatively scheduled in the first two weeks of December, 2015. The exact dates will be announced once the WIPO releases its annual calendar and list of events to avoid clashing of events. The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

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Dandi Salt v. Union of India: Copyright Board may consider Review Applications

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Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court recently passed an order stating that the Registrar of Copyrights does not have the power to adjudicate upon the merits of an application preferred by the Copyright Board, and that the Copyright Board may review its own decisions. The review application was initiated by the petitioners by after their delayed appeal was rejected by the Registrar. You may access the judgment here. Dandi Salt Pvt Ltd v. Union of India and Ors

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Aereo fights back by asserting itself as a Cable Company without Cables(!)

/ By / Copyright, Innovation

Survival instinct prevailed when Aereo recently embraced the US Supreme Court’s ruling which had declared its transmission services illegal in June. Readers may recall that the Court held Aereo’s new-age transmission of TV signal violative of the broadcasters’ public performance rights and, that Aereo was substantially similar to the traditional TV cable system. After ‘pausing’ its services in wake of the judgment, Aereo recently announced that it will now function as a cable company, in lieu of which it will pay

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CCI penalises Google for non-disclosure of information; fines it one crore rupees

/ By / Competition Law

Earlier in March, Google was fined one crore rupees by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for not cooperating with the Director General’s (DG’s) investigations into its operations. The DG had served seven notices directing Google to provide certain information during its investigation, which Google did not fully comply with. Background Our readers may be aware that the CCI had received complaints against Google from two organisations, Matrimony.com (runs BharatMatrimony.com) and Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS). While returning search,

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Special 301 Report: India not downgraded to Priority Foreign Country, will receive OCR though

/ By / Drug Regulation, Innovation, Patent

After a long period of intense speculation on whether India would be downgraded to the Priority Foreign Country category, the USTR decided to let India stay put in the Priority Watch List (India has consistently featured on this list since 1979). Our readers may be aware that US was rather miffed with India’s laws facilitating the manufacture of generic drugs and India’s commitment to promote access to healthcare. Big Pharma and the US Government made several public statements indicating a

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