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: Madras High Court overrules IPAB on ‘Rhizome Imperial Gold’

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Arun C. Mohan, a practising IP lawyer before the Madras High Court has sent us this interesting post regarding the mark ‘Rhizome’s Imperial Gold’ which was under litigation before the IPAB and subsequently the Madras High Court. This is yet another judgement in the long-running litigation in India between Rhizome and Pernod Richard S.A over the mark ‘Imperial’ in various permutations and combinations. Arun adds the disclaimer that his firm represented Pernod Richard S.A. in this matter Madras High Court […]

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Guest Post: The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the EPO

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Tufty the Cat, who is qualified as a U.K. and European patent attorney and who maintains a blog by the same name, accessible over here has written for us this interesting guest post on the veracity of the several claims made by TKDL. Tufty had earlier left a comment on one of my posts questioning the veracity of TKDL’s claim of foiling an European patent application for certain properties pertaining to milk. Subsequent to that comment, I invited Tufty to

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Iranian Pop Band threatens to sue producers, music directors and distributors of ‘Agent Vinod’ for copyright infringement

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A PTI report in DNA has reported that an Iranian band, by the name ‘Barobax Corp’, an underground Iranian Pop band, has served a legal notice on music director Pritam Chakraborthy who has composed the ‘Pyaar Ki Pungi’ song for Saif Ali Khan’s home production – ‘Agent Vinod’, which is due for a world wide release this Friday. The notice has also allegedly been served on the producers, director and Super Cassettes which owns the music rights. Reportedly, the legal

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Some interesting facts about the Indo-E.U. dispute over the seizure of ‘in-transit’ pharmaceuticals

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It has been almost two years since India filed a complaint against the E.U., with the WTO, regarding the seizure of pharmaceutical consignments that were transiting through the ports at E.U. India was joined by Brazil and other countries in that dispute against E.U. After a year of several flip-flops, India-E.U. had finally agreed to an ‘interim settlement’ in July, 2011 whereby the E.U. agreed that mere transit of pharmaceutical drugs would not constituted patent infringement unless there was a

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Guest Post: Can civil courts appoint technical experts in software piracy suits?

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Microsoft Corporation has recently started filing law-suits for copyright infringement before the Madras High Court. This is probably the first time that Microsoft has moved out of its traditional haunt which is the Delhi High Court. The modus operandi, which we have discussed in previous posts over here and here appears to remain the same. It remains to be seen whether the Madras High Court repeats the errors of the Delhi High Court. However the focus of this guest post by

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When Tilda had to rescue ‘Basmati’ from a Thai corporation

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Sometime ago IPKat had carried this interesting post on a decision of the General Court sitting in Luxembourg, in the case of Tilda Riceland Pvt. Ltd. v. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks & Designs) (OHIM). We somehow missed it but as they say better late than never.  The basic facts of the case are quite simple. Siam Grains Company Ltd, a company incorporated in Thailand, had filed a trademark application, in 2003, with the Trade Marks

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Guest Post: A jurisdictional ‘googly’ from the Madras High Court

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Arun Mohan, an IP lawyer practising before the Madras High Court has sent us this very interesting post which examines a judgment of the Madras High Court that has a significant impact on the issue of jurisdiction in IP cases. Arun adds the disclaimer that the firm that he is employed for represented the defendants in the present case. Image from here. Jurisdictional woes before the Madras High Court by, Arun C. Mohan There have been multiple cases on jurisdiction,

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Saregama on a litigation spree before the Calcutta High Court; sues PPL, Select Media, Eros (for 11 seconds of infringement!), etc.

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Saregama India Ltd., one of the oldest music labels in India and part of the RPG conglomerate, has been on a litigation spree in the last 3 months suing everybody from its business partners to its customers to an anonymous website, presumably songs.pk. Image from here.  In the first suit filed in December, 2011 Saregama sued Phonographic Performance Ltd. (PPL), and Select Media Ltd for copyright infringement leading from a breach of a contract to licence its copyrights. While PPL

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Guest Post: A landmark judgement on ‘parallel imports’ under the Trade Mark Act, 1999

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Arun Mohan, an upcoming IP lawyer from Chennai, who has previously blogged for us over here and here, has sent us the following guest post analysing the recent judgement of the Delhi High Court in the case of Samsung v. Kapil Wadhwa. This judgement significantly impacts the law on ‘parallel imports’. The order also touches on the issue of trademark infringement in the case of meta-tagging. Image from here.  An analysis of Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. v. Kapil Wadhwa &

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Producers of ‘hit’ Tamil movie ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ face an ex-parte injunction for alleged copyright infringement

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In an order dated the 29th of February, 2012 the Madras High Court acting on a plea by Tamil script-writer Thiagarajan Kumararaja, passed an ex-parte interim injunction against Capital Film Works (India) Limited, the producers of the Tamil Movie – ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ restraining the latter from releasing the dubbed version of the movie in Telugu and Hindi. The order can be accessed over here.  The Plaintiff in this case, Mr. Kumararaja, is the script-writer and director of the movie ‘Aaranya

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