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).

USIBC lobbies extensively with the Indian Govt. for increased IP protection

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In an interesting document published on its website, available over here, the U.S. India Business Council (USIBC), a business advocacy organization, has described in detail its lobbying efforts with officials of the Government of India (GoI) as also the U.S. Embassy, to increase the level of IP protection in India. Normally ‘lobbying’ is a shady business in India, as proved by the Radia tapes and it is therefore quite interesting to note that USIBC has published this information in such […]

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Guest Post: New developments from ICANN

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce this second guest post from Mr. Arun Mohan. Arun completed his LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is currently an associate with Mohan Associates, Chennai. His focus is primarily on IP and commercial litigation. New developments from ICANN,By Arun Mohan The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the regulatory body for development and regulation of domain names on the internet, has given a fresh bout of air to

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Guest Post: More on Google’s European battles

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce this guest post from Mr. Arun Mohan. Arun completed his LLB from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is currently an associate with Mohan Associates, Chennai. His focus is primarily on IP and commercial litigation. Dutch Court applies the ECJ Google ruling.By Arun Mohan There have been a string of judgements around the world, on the usage of registered trademarks by competitors in Google’s Adword program. The Dutch Courts have been the

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Dr. Wobben appeals to Madras High Court against IPAB Orders

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Aditya Reddy, an advocate at the Madras High Court informs us that Dr. Wobben, owner of Enercon GmBH, has filed writ appeals before the Madras High Court, on the 20th of April, 2011, against the Orders of the IPAB revoking several of his patents. The appeals were heard a Division Bench of the Madras High Court. Although the High Court refused to stay the orders of the IPAB, it did pass a status quo order, whatever that means!Image from here.

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Something rotten in the Copyright Office?

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Over the last year we have been filing multiple applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005 with several Central Government Ministries. Some of the Central Government ministries like the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and National Biological Authority have been exceptional in their responses and have kept with the letter and spirit of the Right to Information Act, 2005. The Copyright Office however is a completely different story. Our latest RTI Application asking

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Patent Office enables online file inspections

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As a part of its continued digitization/transparency drive the Patent Office has started hosting scanned copies of entire patent files on its IPAIRs system which can be accessed over here. The scanned copies now available on the website, includes all correspondence between the patent office and the patentee, all forms, abstracts and specifications filed by the patentee with the patent office. Image from here. This is basically an attempt to duplicate the features available on the website of the European

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Guest post: Multiple litigations regarding ‘Thank you’ movie

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Suchita Saigal has sent us this very interesting post on the various disputes surrounding the recent Bollywood movie ‘Thank You’.     Three Dirty Doggies surrounded by controversy   by Suchita Saigal     Is movie mein action hain, drama hain, suspense hain aur emotion hain … Maybe not! The Thank You movie reviews won’t inspire me to make a weekend plan to watch it and I don’t think I will be missing much since all the drama seems to

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IJIEL: Special issue on Space Law and IEL

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I’m happy to announce on behalf of Abhimanyu George Jain, Chief Editor of IJIEL, student of the graduating batch at the NLSIU and a living example of the religious diversity of India, the release of a special issue of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL). The special issue focuses on the interface between space law and international economic law. This volume has tried to examine some of the many fascinating international economic and financial law issues emerging from

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SpicyIP Guest Post: CL discussion draws to an end

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Suchita Saigal, our regular guest blogger, has sent us this interesting post on what could be the possible conclusion to the events kicked off by the Compulsory Licensing ‘Discussion Paper’ released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. Much Ado about Nothing by Suchita Saigal The compulsory licensing consultation process which began with the DIPP issuing a discussion paper on compulsory licensing of patents was brought to a close today by the press release released by the Ministry of

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Delhi High Court slams the Trade Mark Registries for losing 44,000 files over the last 5 years

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In a shocking revelation, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has filed an affidavit, before Justice Murlidhar of the Delhi High Court, stating on oath that the Trade Marks Registry has lost a record 44,000 files relating to trademark registrations and oppositions. 44,000!!!! Phew! Wow! The Delhi High Court Order is available over here. This revelation is a result of an earlier order of Justice Murlidhar, which we had covered in December, 2010 over here. Halidram Pvt. Ltd.

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