Md Sabeeh Ahmad

SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)

January 6, 2025 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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)

December 30, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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)

December 23, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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

December 18, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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)

December 16, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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)

December 9, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / 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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 25 – December 1)

December 2, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / Copyright, Design, Others, Patent, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on IPO’s patent application rejection of HIV drug Dolutegravir, another judgement in the long-running Section 3(k) saga, this time on the patentability of business methods and the DHC IPD’s Annual Report 2023-24. 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 SpicyIP Tidbit: Patent Office

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DHC IPD Second Annual Report 2023-24: Key Takeaways!

November 30, 2024 / By Md Sabeeh Ahmad / Others

Image from here IP Court watchers will be pleased to know that the Delhi High Court’s IP Division has published the 2023-24 edition of its Annual Report! The second report (hereinafter referred to as ‘the report’) gives a summary of the number of cases disposed of, freshly instituted, and pending before the IPD. Praharsh had written about the first report published in April 2023. The second report seems more detailed, as it has information on various categories of IP cases

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi High Court Issues Notice to OpenAI in the ANI Copyright Infringement Case

ANI logo. Image from here As highlighted yesterday, the first hearing in the ANI MEDIA PVT LTD V/s OPEN AI INC & ANR. took place today with the Delhi HC issuing summons to OpenAI. As reported by Bar and Bench, ANI sought an interim injunction against the unauthorised use and storage of its copyright work by Open AI to train its large language models (LLMs) -ChatGPT. ANI alleged that such use constitutes copyright infringement and thus filed the present suit

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The Beginning of AI-Copyright Litigation in India?: ANI vs OpenAI in DHC Tomorrow

AI litigation seems to have reached India! Readers will be interested to know that ANI MEDIA PVT LTD V/s OPEN AI INC & ANR. has been listed before the IPD Bench of Justice Amit Bansal at Delhi High Court tomorrow (November 19, 2024 – Court Number 45, Item No. 39). Aditi Agrawal from Hindustan Times has reported that ANI has alleged OpenAI of exploiting its content to train its Large Language Models (LLMs) and that ChatGPT (OpenAI chatbot) produces ANI’s

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