Author name: Devika Agarwal

  SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! On 30th April, India signed the ‘Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled (MVT)’ which allows for better access to published works by the visually impaired. This is indeed a welcome move to address the problem of “book famine” which is faced by those who are visually impaired or print disabled; India’s copyright laws being already in harmony with the Treaty makes

SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! On 10th April, Thomson Reuters released a report titled ‘The Research and Innovation Performance of the G20’ highlighting the decisions taken in respect of scientific research and innovation activity by the G20 countries. It was heartening to discover that the report demonstrates how India has inched closer to bridging the scientific research and innovation gap with developed countries. Spadika has covered this here.   We, at SpicyIP, love blogging about the wackiest things doing the

SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! Earlier sometime in February, Shamnad and Swaraj, in an Indian Express Op-Ed had written on the problematic GIPC Report 2014 which banished India to the last position in terms of innovation and IP protection offered by it; interestingly enough, Mr. P. Pugatch of the Pugatch Consilium (which conducted the GIPC Report) has in what seems to be a reply to the earlier Op-Ed vociferously emphasized the significance of the contentious report. In an interestingly titled

The SpicyIP highlight of the week is Thomas’ post on Rare diseases and innovation. We chose it as the highlight of the week as it brings to light an often under-discussed topic in the pharma patent world, while also being a stark example of an area that the patent system is currently ill-equipped to deal with. The last week was a busy one for our blog with some very interesting IP developments both in India as well as internationally. We