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Towards More Intelligible “Open Access” at the Indian Patent Office: A Study of Compulsory Licensing Cases – II

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This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer. In Part I of the post, we illustrated that a number of patent records are not accessible on the Indian Patent Office’s website in an easy to access and intelligible manner, using the example of the three compulsory licensing (CL) orders passed by the Indian Patent Office. In Part II, we synthesise some of our thoughts and suggestions on making Indian patent data more openly accessible and democratic going forward. ‘Available’? Yes. […]

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Towards More Intelligible “Open Access” at the Indian Patent Office: A Study of Compulsory Licensing Cases – I

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This post has been co-authored with Prof. Shamnad Basheer.  In Part I of the post, we illustrate that a number of patent records are not accessible on the Indian Patent Office’s website in an easy to access and intelligible manner, using the example of the three compulsory licensing (CL) orders passed by the Indian Patent Office. In Part II, we synthesise some of our thoughts and suggestions on making Indian patent data more openly accessible and democratic going forward. As our readers may know, we

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The Disturbing Trend of Inaccuracy in IP News Reporting:  How to Stem the Malaise?

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We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Vasundhara Majithia on the disturbingly increasing trend of inaccuracy in news reporting on IPR issues. Vasundhara is a recent graduate of NLU, Jodhpur and is currently practising IP law in Delhi. As most of our readers must have experienced at some point, Indian media is in the habit of misreporting IPR issues. They tend to use terms like ‘patent’, ‘copyright’, ‘trademark’ and ‘GI’ interchangeably, little realising that these are distinct

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Call for Papers: International Academy of Comparative Law; Submit Paper Abstracts By March 30, 2018

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We are pleased to announce that International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) is inviting scholars and practitioners of all levels of experience to submit paper proposals for a special session on ‘Sharing Economy and the Law’, to be held on July 29, 2018 in Fukoka, Japan. The last date for submission of paper abstracts is March 30, 2018. For further details, please see the call for papers below: International Academy of Comparative law GENERAL CONGRESS 22-28 July 2018 Fukuoka, Japan

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The Turning Point Cases – Part II

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In this two-part post, Eashan Ghosh analyses the recent judgment of the Delhi High Court in Turning Point Institute v. M/s Turning Point. Part I of the post can be viewed here. The Turning Point Cases – Part II Eashan Ghosh The Defendants’ Claim of Honest Concurrent Use  On, then, to the Defendants’ claim that they were entitled to use the ‘TURNING POINT’ trademark on substantive grounds. Their submission to this effect hinged on the honest concurrent use defence. However, framed as such, this was

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The Turning Point Cases – Part I

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We are pleased to bring to you a two-part guest post by Eashan Ghosh on the recent Delhi High Court’s judgment in Turning Point Institute v. M/s Turning Point. Eashan graduated as a gold medalist from NLSIU, Bangalore and with distinction honours from the University of Oxford. He has been in practice as an intellectual property advocate and consultant in New Delhi since 2011, and has taught intellectual property law at NLU Delhi and NLSIU, Bangalore. He has published articles in

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The Mystery around Appointment of IPAB Chairman Thickens: DIPP Says It is Still under Consideration

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Last week, I had drawn our readers’ attention to an information note available on a Department of Personnel & Training website which states that Justice (Retd.) Manmohan Singh’s proposal appointment as IPAB Chairman has been approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) and that the DIPP has been informed of the same. However, strangely, the DIPP still doesn’t seem to have received any information in this regard. In a reply to a tweet by one of our readers,

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SpicyIP Jobs: Associate/Senior Associate – Patents at Remfry & Sagar, Gurgaon & Chennai

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We are pleased to inform our readers that Remfry & Sagar, one of India’s leading IP law firms, is looking to recruit 10 candidates for the Associate/Senior Associate – Patents position for its Gurgaon and Chennai offices. For further details, please read the job description below: About the Firm Remfry & Sagar, India’s premier Intellectual Property law firm, with over 225 personnel, is expanding its operations and looking to recruit qualified patent attorneys, science/engineering graduates and lawyers (with technical/science backgrounds) for

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Singh Is King! : IPAB Ceases to be Headless with Justice (Retd.) Manmohan Singh’s Appointment as Its Chairman

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In a post last year, Prof. Basheer had informed us of a speculative piece of news that Justice Manmohan Singh, former judge of the Delhi High Court, would soon succeed Justice (Retd.) K.N. Basha as the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) after his retirement. If certain recent web reports (see here, here, here and here) and an information note (which seems to be one issued by the government) are to be believed, this could well have come

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The Privacy Case – Looking Past Semantics

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We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Jaideep Reddy on the ongoing SC case on right to privacy. Jaideep is a technology lawyer at Nishith Desai Associates. The views expressed in this post are personal. We had earlier published a few snippets of an article co-authored by him on problems of delegated legislation/executive action here.   The Privacy Case – Looking Past Semantics Jaideep Reddy Next week, the Supreme Court is expected to answer the question that

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