Author name: Md Sabeeh Ahmad

Md Sabeeh Ahmad is an Analyst at SpicyIP and LLM Candidate at the University of Cambridge. He graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and has keen interest in Access to Medicines and Health Policy. He can be reached at: [email protected]

A Rare Invocation for a Rare Disease?: Government Urged to Invoke Section 100, Patents Act for Rare Disease Medicine

/ By / Patent

Rajya Sabha MP Haris Beeran wrote to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare on December 20, 2024, urging the Central Government to invoke Section 100 (1) of the Patents Act with respect to local production of the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) treating drug Risdiplam. SMA is a genetic disease affecting the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. SMA incidence in India is one in 10,000 live-born babies. Section 100 empowers the central government to use, or […]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the post on the analysis of Cigma Events Private Limited v. Deepak Gupta & Ors and enforcing criminal remedies against IP infringement in India. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week Trust Issues – When Secrets Come with a Commercial Price: Analyzing Cigma Events Private

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 6 – January 12)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Lemley’s and Henderson’s paper on AI Terms of Use Restrictions, CGPDTM order on the removal of a patent agent, Delhi HC order on disclosure of a PhD and Public Interest Need in Personality Rights cases. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week

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Committee Recommends Deregistration of Patent Agent After Professional Misconduct Allegations

/ By / Others, Patent

The CGPDTM has ordered the removal of a patent agent from the Register of Patent Agents following a recommendation by the Ad-Hoc committee that had been constituted by the DPIIT to deal with the complaints against Patent or Trademark Agents. Readers will recall that back in September 2024, the CGPDTM had formed two committees following the Delhi HC’s directions in Saurav Chaudhary v. Union of India & Anr. Interestingly, the agent in this case was the one involved in Saurav

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on India’s Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters Rights Association of India’s registration as Copyright Society. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2024

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 23 – December 29)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Privacy, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Delhi HC’s ruling on Celebrity Rights and the Powers of Regional Directors under Companies Act vis a vis Trademark Similarity. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week Delhi High Court Rulings on Celebrity Rights Galore: Examining the Rajat Sharma and Mohan Babu

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 16 – December 22)

/ By / Others, Patent, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on formulation/composition claims and Section 3(d), Managing IP’s Most Influential People in IP List, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suit against Dharma Production. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week Formulation/Composition Claims and Section 3(d): Analyzing the Utidelone Pre-grant Opposition Order In light

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Médecins Sans Frontières suit against Dharma Productions for Jigra scene

/ By / Trademark

In an interesting development that caught my eye (coincidentally after reading Shravya’s post here on Mediation in IP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has filed a suit against Dharma Production for using the MSF trademark in a scene of the movie Jigra. MSF, commonly also known as Doctors without Borders, is involved in humanitarian medical care and has long been an advocate for ‘access to medicines’. Interestingly, in October this year Adar Poonawalla (CEO of the Serum Institute of India) acquired

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 9 – December 15)

/ By / Others

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on unreasoned patent grants and rejections, the One Nation One Subscription initiative by the government, and the DHC order on missing reasons for ex-parte injunctions. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week Part I: Unreasoned Patent Grants and Rejections: Taking a Look at

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 2 – December 8)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Privacy

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on Madras HC’s setting aside another IPO order for being unreasoned, the use of name of the late singer M.S. Subbulakshmi on an award posthumously against the expressions in her will, and the Swiss Senate approval of FTA with India. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know.

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