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).

SpicyIP Resources: Manupatra shares with us its copy of the Hilltone judgment

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Mr. Deepak Kapoor of Manupatra.com, one of India’s leading online legal portals, has been kind enough to, promptly, share with us, his copy of the Hilltone judgment rendered by the Additional District Court, Sirohi District, Rajasthan, along with a translation of the same. We thank him for the same. It is now available on our website over here. Please note this is the judgment against which an appeal has been filed by the Rajasthan High Court and not the order […]

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Rajasthan HC refuses to ‘stay’ the operation of the permanent injunction in the ‘Hilltone v. Hilton’ case

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In a surprising order, the Rajasthan High Court has refused to stay the order of the Additional District Judge, restraining Hilton from using its name in relation to the hospitality sector. The story has been carried by the IE,. We had earlier blogged about the District Court’s order over here. The Plaintiff in this case – Hilltone Hotel – located in Mount Abu, had filed this suit against Hilton International Corporation alleging ‘deceptive similarity’ to its own name and praying

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Natco & Ranbaxy delay proceedings in the Glivec case before the Supreme Court

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I had earlier carried a post on how the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the Novartis (Glivec) case in the month of July, 2010. The case was initially scheduled for the 6th of July, 2010 before the Registrar S.G. Shah. The Registrar usually oversees the case until all necessary pleadings are completed after which the matter is listed before a bench of the Supreme Court for hearings. On the 6th of July, 2010 when the matter was listed before

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China, Canada, Japan, Turkey, Ecuador seek to join consultations in the Indo-E.U. Trade Dispute over Seizure of ‘In-transit’ Generic Drugs

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The Indo-E.U. Trade dispute over the seizure of ‘in-transit’ Indian generic drug consignments at various ports in the Netherlands is heating up with several other countries filing requests to join the consultations on the dispute. The countries which have filed requests to join consultations and the reasons given by them for such a request are as follows: (i)Canada: Canada has a substantial trade interest in these consultations, as it exports 40% of generic drugs manufactured in Canada to over 120

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SpicyIP Jobs: Opening at the University of Leuven for doctoral researchers in law and economics

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The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, (CIR) and the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) of the University of Leuven, Belgium has an exciting opening for a doctoral researcher in law. The advertisement for the position has the following details: One Doctoral Researcher in LawYour opportunities• You will engage in doctoral research in the context of a research project investigating the interaction between legal architectures and open innovation strategies, leading to a Ph.D in Law.• You will contribute

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RTI applications seeking information regarding the Chairperson of the Copyright Board

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Continuing with our mission to increase transparency and accountability at Indian intellectual property institutions, we have filed, with the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Copyright Division, Ministry of HRD, applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005 seeking information on the qualifications of the current Chairperson of the Copyright Board. We have filed two RTI applications with the CPIO of the Copyright Division seeking the following information: First Application: 1.As per Section 11 of the Copyright Act, 1957,

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SpicyIP Resources: Submissions to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010

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As reported earlier on this blog, the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 was referred to the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources Development (HRD) headed by Shri Oscar Fernandes, Member of Parliament. Image from here. In response to the ‘Press Release’ calling for public comments on the Amendment Bill, we (Shamnad and I) prepared written submissions on certain aspects of the Amendment as also the present Copyright Act, 1957. Our submissions contain 9 chapters, covering a number of issues

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Senior Bureaucrat airs ‘personal views’ on TRIP plus protection

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In an insightful op-ed titled ‘Time to Challenge TRIPs plus IPRs’ and carried by the ET a couple of days ago, Mr. Prashant Goyal, Director, Trade Policy Division, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India has aired his ‘personal views’ on the topic of ‘TRIP plus’ protection that is being advocated through ACTA and FTAs, as also the efforts of IMPACT & WHO. It is rare for senior Indian bureaucrats to be so candid about their

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Reliance challenges the constitutionality of service tax on copyright transactions: Sale or Serivce?

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In a story first broken by Kian Ganz, of Legally India, it appears that Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., one of the biggest production houses in the country, has challenged before the High Court of Delhi, the constitutionality of Section 65(105)(zzzzt), of the Finance Act, 2010 through which Parliament seeks to impose service tax on the transfer of copyright from one entity to another. We had carried a guest post by Ayan Roy Choudhary over here. The provision reads as

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Novartis & Bayer appeals to be heard by the Supreme Court in the next 30 days

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Over the next 1 month, the Supreme Court of India, is scheduled to hear two key appeals by foreign pharmaceutical companies in regards Indian patent laws. The first is the appeal by Novartis (Appeal No. 20539 – 549 of 2009) against the decision of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board, upholding the decision of the patent office to reject the Novartis’s patent application for the beta-crystalline form of imatinib mesylate. NATCO has filed a cross-appeal (Appeal No. 32706 of 2009) in

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