Author name: Prashant Reddy

T. Prashant Reddy graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a B.A.LLB (Hons.) degree in 2008. He later graduated with a LLM degree (Law, Science & Technology) from the Stanford Law School in 2013. Prashant has worked with law firms in Delhi and in academia in India and Singapore. He is also co-author of the book Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas (OUP).

Guest Post: The New India Guidelines on Similar Biologics

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The Government of India has recently announced certain guidelines regulating the approval of ‘similar biologics’ also known as bio-similars. The bio-similar market is going to be a huge market opportunity for the generic drug industry. Given the complexity of the products themselves, the regulatory regime for bio-similars is also rather complex. Since none of us on the blog had a detailed understanding of the guidelines, we invited our frequent guest blogger Mr. Christopher Ohly to write us a guest post […]

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Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies – a book by Ananth Padmanabhan

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I’m proud to inform our readers that Ananth Padmanabhan, my friend and lawyer, has FINALLY, after four years, published his book Intellectual Property Rights: Infringement and Remedies (LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa 2012). Actually, in hindsight, four years is not a very long time to write a book, especially since I’m tried and failed to write a book in a much longer time span. Interested readers can buy the book from here at and there is a standard 10% discount for those

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More controversy during appointments to IPAB: Delhi HC rules against DIPP

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Image from here. In a decision dated 3rd October, 2012 the Delhi High Court in a judgment by Justice Suresh Kait has ordered the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) to forward to the Appointment Committee of Cabinets (ACC) the final recommendations of the Selection Committee which had interviewed applicants for the position of Technical Member at the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB). The judgment can be accessed over here.  The Selection Committee, constituted by the DIPP, had initially

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The need for iron-clad enforcement of Section 8 disclosure requirements

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Ever since Justice Murlidhar’s order in the Chemtura judgment and Justice Sridevan’s subsequent order in Tata Chemicals, most patent agents have been filing almost all the relevant details regarding foreign patent filings, including the examiners reports generated by the USPTO, JPO and EPO. However this is not always the case. There are cases where the patent applicant is faced with a ‘lose-lose’ situation i.e. if he were to disclose the details of an adverse office action at a foreign patent office he

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NBA set to prosecute Monsanto’s Indian subsidiary: What about Cornell, USAID & the DBT?

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In a story which ran today on PTI, the Chairperson of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has reportedly informed the press that his organization is all set to prosecute Monsanto’s Indian subsidiary (Mahyco) in a criminal court for violation of India’s Biological Diversity Act, when Mahyco allegedly accessed ‘germ-plasm’ related to certain varieties of brinjal. According to the PTI report the Chairperson states “The company has used local variety of brinjal to develop BT brinjal. We are in the advanced

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TKDL poised to draw first blood before Indian patent office; long road ahead

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Finally, almost thirteen years after it was first conceptualized, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is on path to having an Indian TK related patent application, filed by an Indian citizen, being struck down as non-patentable.  I’d like to take a small slice of credit for this particular case because this was a case I had pointed out on the blog earlier this year, as a part of a series of posts on the TKDL. The focus of those posts

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Call for Papers: Christ University, Law Journal

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With great pleasure, The Journals and Publications Society, School of Law, Christ University, invites contributions on contemporary issues of law from legal professionals, activists, academics and students for the second issue of its biannual peer-reviewed, Christ University Law Journal (CULJ), ISSN 2278-4322, to be published in January 2013. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 1. Submissions would be entertained under the following heads: ·         Articles: 6,000- 10,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) ·         Case Comments and Book Reviews: 2,000-4,000 words (inclusive of footnotes) ·         Legislative

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Guest Post: Will the amendments to the Copyright Act serve their purpose?

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Arun Mohan, a practising IP lawyer before the Madras High Court sent us this interesting piece exploring the possible complexities in enforcing the recent amendments to Indian copyright law and also the larger question of whether the amendments will serve their purpose? Guest post: Will the amendments to the Copyright Act serve their purpose? by, Arun Mohan Many an IP lawyer representing the entertainment industry would have spent several hours grappling with the new Copyright Act, and its consequences. In

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CSIR provides misleading information; aims to hide revenues from patent licensing

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Image from here Pursuant to my last post, I received the annexures that CSIR had forgotten to send me along with its RTI reply which I had blogged about over here. The information contained in the annexures is not the information that I had asked for under the RTI Act and this information is nothing but yet another attempt to mislead me.  I had asked for licensing revenues from CSIR’s patents but was provided instead with a list of ‘lab-wise

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Proposed Copyright Board likely to be held unconstitutional

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Image from here The new scheme of the Copyright Board as proposed in the recent draft of the Copyright Rules, 2012 (Amlan has blogged on the draft rules over here) is most likely to be held unconstitutional by a Court of Law. As most of our readers may already be aware the reason the government amended the law in this respect was because the South Indian Music Companies Association (SIMCA) had challenged the constitutionality of the Copyright Board as originally

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