Author name: Gaurangi Kapoor

Gaurangi Kapoor is currently a Research Assistant at NALSAR, DPIIT IPR Chair. She has previously worked with IIM Ahmedabad and NLU Delhi, and is keen on exploring writing in IP law and history.

SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (02.11.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Gets Counted as an Inventor? When we think about the history of invention, we often think of the people whose names have become synonymous with a particular discovery or technology. But how much of this history do

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Draft Trade Marks Manual 2026: Gaps DPIIT Must Address Before It Goes Final

On August 21, 2026, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Trade (DPIIT) published a Draft Manual on Trade Marks: Practice & Procedure 2026 (Draft Manual) in the Gazette of India, inviting public comments within fifteen days. Running over two hundred pages, the Draft Manual is meant to be the operational rulebook for examiners and registrars and a guide for prospective applicants of a mark. The Draft Manual is an updated version of the 2015 Manual. It has added a

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (26.10.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Copyright at 50 – Can the Law Keep Up? Copyright law has always had to contend with a rather difficult question: how do you make rules for creative works when the ways we create, share and use them

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (13.10.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Really Drives Innovation? When we talk about innovation, we often think of businesses, entrepreneurs and the big breakthroughs they bring to the market. Governments, meanwhile, tend to be seen as playing a supporting role — funding research

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (06.10.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: What Does Justice Have to Do With IP?  Some organisations work to change the law. Some work to make the law easier to find, understand or use. And some make us pause and ask a more fundamental question:

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (29.09.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: When You Don’t Know the Name of the Trademark  Every now and then, I come across a tool that makes me wonder how we managed without it.  The WIPO Global Brand Database is one of those tools. You can

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (22.09.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Speaks for the Public Domain?  Every now and then, I come across an organisation that makes me pause not because of the number of people it represents or the size of its operations, but because of the

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (15.09.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: The Man Who Helped Build India’s Trademark Law Before every brand had a registration number, a trademark database, or a legal team ready to protect it, India had to first build a system for recognising and protecting trademarks. 

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (01.09.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: 30 Years of the WIPO Internet Treaties What did copyright law look like when the Internet arrived?  This week’s Bell takes us back to 20 December 1996, when the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (24.08.2026)

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: When Copyright Meets AI – ANI v. OpenAI Some bells mark the beginning of a new chapter. This one may just be the beginning of India’s AI copyright jurisprudence.  This week’s bell goes to ANI Media v. OpenAI, one

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