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).

Madras High Court declines to grant interim injunction in trademark dispute between Google Ad-words and matrimonial portals

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In a judgment dated 10th of September, 2012 a Division Bench of the Madras High Court declined to set aside the judgment dated 30th September, 2010, of a Single Judge of the same court, declining to grant Consim Info Pvt. Ltd. an interim injunction in a trademark infringement lawsuit against Google & other internet marriage portal which compete with Bharat-Matrimony.com an internet marriage portal which is owned by Consim. The judgment can be accessed over here.  For our post summarizing […]

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A tribute to Mr. Amar Raj Lall – one of India’s finest IP lawyers

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Mr. Amar Raj Lall. Image from here. Most of you in Delhi must have already heard about the passing away of Mr. Amar Raj Lall, Senior Partner of Lall, Lahiri & Salhotra (LLS) on the 6th of September, 2012. Although I knew Mr. Lall for only a very brief period, I have several lovely memories of sitting in his office, during a month long internship, listening to him narrating stories about his fascinating life. As a lowly intern I had

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CSIR pulls a fast one – does a U-Turn on disclosure of royalties earned through patent licensing

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Just weeks after informing me (read the covering letter over here) that it was in the process of sending me information on the royalties earned through patent licensing, the Central Public Information Officer from the CSIR HQs has done a complete U-Turn by claiming that such information could not be shared under the RTI Act since it was exempted under Section 8(1)(d) of the RTI Act, 2005. This letter dated September 5th can be accessed over here.  This is an

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A reply to ‘A simple gutting of Copyright Defences’

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I felt compelled to reply to Shamnad’s last post on the OUP-DU photocopying controversy for several reasons. The most important objection being that neither I nor Mr. Saika advocated, in my last post, that the Delhi High Court should decide the case just because the IRRO was ready to offer an affordable licence. To repeat Mr Saika’s quote in my last post, he merely states “We have already said in court that as soon as proper licenses are taken from

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Guest Post: Part II – Protecting Parental Lines of Extant Hybrids in India

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Contd. The Parental Lines case  by Mrinalini Kochupillai (Following the background in the previous post, the key legal issues discussed by the Registrar in the Parental Lines decision are explained here.) ‘Variety:’ Section 2(za) of the PPV&FR Act defines “variety”. Unlike under the UPOV model, the PPV&FR Actpermits an applicant to seek registration under one of four different categories: (i) New Variety (ii) Extant Variety, (iii) Farmers’ Variety; and (iv) Essentially Derived Variety. Only the first two categories are of

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Guest Post: Part I – Protecting Parental Lines of Extant Hybrids in India

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A few months ago I came across an order of the Registrar of Plant Varieties on the internet. The order seemed to be quite important, given the names and the number of the parties who put up an appearance and to make an honest confession I couldn’t understand anything in the order because the subject was so complicated! Thus we set out in search for an expert and it just so turned out that one of our former bloggers, Mrinalini

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Is this a ‘fair’ solution to the OUP/CUP-DU copyright infringement lawsuit?

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After my post yesterday on the OUP-DU photocopying copyright infringement case, I received a very interesting email from the Managing Director of Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. – Manas Saika. In his email, Saika provides a rather simple solution to the current impasse at DU and which solution also appears to be quite affordable. For some reason, most newspapers or even the Facebook group set up by the DU students does not seem to carry any information on this

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A differing perspective on the OUP lawsuit against DU

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The Business Standard recently published an op-ed by me on the copyright infringement case filed by Oxford University Press (OUP), the Cambridge University Press and a third publisher against Delhi University (DU) and a photocopier located on DU’s campus. The op-ed can be accessed over here.  Amlan and Shamnad had earlier covered this issue in posts that are available over here and here.  A brief summary of the op-ed is available below, along with additional comments which could not make

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On the allegation of bias by NATCO

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Image from here. Independent of the defamation issue, there is another issue that we need to discuss and that is the allegation by Natco that Shamnad’s opinions on its lawsuit against Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) are biased towards BMS and that he has colluded with them. At some level, I guess this a professional hazard of running a blog. This is a very serious allegation and I am guessing that Shamnad is already taking steps to sue Natco for this

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NATCO sues Shamnad for defamation

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If we at SpicyIP ever needed validation of the strength of the blog and its wide readership, we just received it from the most unlikely sources – NATCO, a generic pharmaceutical company which sued Shamnad on the 13th of August, 2012 for allegeddefamation and libel with regard to certain statements he made on SpicyIP regarding its litigation strategy with BMS. The news has been reported in Legally India, Bar and Bench and LAOT.  With specific reference to SpicyIP, NATCO states

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