Author name: Md Sabeeh Ahmad

What Indian Courts Are Getting Wrong About Personality Rights? – A post analysing the recent Delhi HC order in Sadhguru and Ankur Warikoo. Post on the Delhi HC’s increases coverage via a ‘superlative injunction’. The long awaited Pandemic Treaty is finally here but will it be able to overcome the challenges it originally aimed to resolve? This and much more in our weekly roundup of our blog posts, case summaries, and top IP developments in the country and the world. Anything […]

Post analysing the Courts dealing with PILs in service matters as AIPOWA vs. CGPDTM reaches the SC. Is the opt-out mechanism compatible with the Berne Convention? – Lokesh and Yogesh answer this in a two-part post. Another post on whether India should shift the burden of licensing for AI training data from creators to AI companies. This and much more in our weekly roundup of our blog posts, case summaries, and top IP developments in the country and the world.

Post on ANI’s latest copyright action – sending copyright strikes to YouTube creators, another perspective on the ANI vs. OpenAI copyright dispute, this time on excessive judicial borrowing and the storage paradox, and Delhi HC’s ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ order with too much, yet too little IP. This and more in our weekly roundup of blog posts, case summaries, and top IP developments in the country and the world. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let

What is patent quality and why does it matter? – A two-part post defining patent quality, an interim injunction granted under PPVFRA with some glaring errors in the order, and the Calcutta HC’s refusal to hold the 20-Year Patent Term as Unconstitutional! The SpicyIP Summer School Application deadline is also now over. Here’s a roundup of our blog posts, case summaries, and top IP developments in the country and the world this week. Anything we are missing out on? Drop

The Great Indian Cricket Festival (aka IPL) is in the IP news with the BCCI facing a trademark dispute over naming its AI dog. The BCCI has also demanded an IPL-centric podcast to remove certain images and logos used in their video content. Add to that – posts on a missed opportunity to clarify Section 3(b) by the Cal HC and the IPO, and the technically all over the place CRI jurisprudence in India. Not to forget – we have

A reminder on the SpicyIP Summer School, applications for which are now open! Some anomalies in the Patent Agent exam results, a twist in the PPL-Azure case before the Supreme Court, Kerala’s new IPR and TK Policy draft, and a lot more that has happened in the last week. Add to that – an upcoming post on the big Ustad FW Dagar vs. AR Rahman judgment from the Delhi High Court. Here’s a roundup of our blog posts, case summaries

Sound recording licensing, India’a annual IP report, creative works as industrial design, and a lot more that has happened last week. Not to forget – SpicyIP Summer School is now accepting applications! As we near the end of April, here’s a roundup of our blog posts, case summaries and top IP developments in the country and the world this week. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week PPL Cannot

Keep up with the ever changing world of IP with SpicyIP’s Weekly Review! In the second week of April we have a post looking closely at the Draft CRI Guidelines 2025 (deadline today for submitting comments!), a food for thought post asking: in a world where access to knowledge is increasingly sought, the question isn’t just who gets to read but also what gets read, and why? And an analysis of the Madras HC judgment in Kemin v. Controller of