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Some Exciting News about the SpicyIP Summer School! Deadline Extended and Graduates Before 2023 Can now Apply as well!

/ By / Courses & Workshops, Others

For those following our updates on social media, we’ve been sharing our list of speakers and their focus areas for the inaugural SpicyIP Summer School, and it is truly looking to be an amazing experience, with a fantastic lineup (details below). Currently, for this post, we’d like to just give a round-up of what’s in there waiting for the first batch of SpicyIP Summer School, and also have some exciting news up ahead! Since our announcement, we’ve received some wonderful […]

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Announcing the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellows 2025!

/ By / Innovation, Opportunities, Others

After a terrific response to our call for applications for the SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy  Fellowship we are pleased to announce the selected Fellows – Ambika Aggarwal and Karthika Rajmohan. The fellowship was made possible by a generous grant from the FOSS United Foundation, a non-profit that aims at promoting & strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India. The SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellowship is devised to contribute to the wider discourse of analysis of IP-related

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Parody, Trademarks, and the IPL: Analysing Delhi HC’s ruling in RCB v. Uber

/ By / Trademark

Finishing the hat trick on the IPL 2025 related IP posts, Aditya Bhargava writes on the recent Delhi High Court judgement in RCB v. Uber over the latter’s advertisement allegedly disparaging the Bangalore based team. For the previous two posts on the other IPL related controversies, covered by Sonisha, see here (on BCCI issuing notice to the “Grade Cricketer” podcast) and here (on Publishers “Champak” magazine suing BCCI for adopting an identical name for their AI Robot dog). Aditya is

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“Operation Sindoor” and the Misguided Idea of “Moment Trademarking”

/ By / Trademark

In these tough times of conflict, we saw numerous applications seeking a trademark over the codename of India’s military response against the Pahalgam attack- “Operation Sindoor”. To comment on the surge in these applications, we invited Mr. Sunil Jose to share his views on whether the Trademarks Act allows such applications or not. Mr Jose is a Professor of Practice (Law) at Alliance University, Bangalore and Founder, Suns Legal IP Law Firm, Kochi. He is available at- brandlawyer(at)gmail(dot)com. “Operation Sindoor” and

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The Champak Controversy: How “Naming A Dog” Led BCCI Into A Trademark Tussle

/ By / Trademark

Recently, the BCCI has been dragged to the Court by the publisher of the popular children magazine “Champak” over adopting an identical name for their AI robot dog. Although the Delhi High Court has issued notice in the case, as per media reports it seems like the plaintiff has made a glaring omission of not adding Section 29(4) in their plaint! SpicyIP intern Sonisha Srinivasan, in her second post on the IP controversies arising out of this year’s IPL season,

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Fair Dealing or Foul Play? Copyright Claims in An IPL Breakfast Show

/ By / Copyright, Trademark

[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Sonisha Srinivasan. Sonisha is a 4th year law student at School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be) University, Bangalore. She is keenly interested in Research, Intellectual property Law, and Media and Entertainment Law.] When “Cricket” meets “Copyright”, sometimes even “Breakfast [podcast] shows” are bowled out. This is in the context of an interesting dispute that involves “The Grade Cricketer” podcast hosted by Sam Perry and Ian Higgins, which had been running a show

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Dagar v. A R Rahman Controversy: Is the Law Out of Tune with Indian Classical Music?

/ By / Copyright

In a copyright battle between two musical maestros, the Delhi High Court, in an interim order, held that the song ‘Veera Raja Veera’ from Ponniyin Selvan 2 prima facie infringed the copyright of Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar’s musical composition ‘Shiva Stuti’. The film song was composed by ace musical composer A. R. Rahman. In this post, Varsha Jhavar breaks down the Court’s prima facie finding on similarity between the two competing works and infringement, noting several critiques in the Court’s

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SpicyIP Tidbit: The Philips-Vivo SEP Showdown: How a High-Stakes SEP Battle Ended in Settlement

/ By / Patent

[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Sushant Jaiswal. Sushant is a third-year law student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, with a keen interest in intellectual property law and legal research.] In a recent turn of events, Koninklijke Philips N.V. and Vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. decided to settle their 5-year-old SEP dispute over 3G and 4G technologies. The two sides confirmed before Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court that they had entered into

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Why Should the U.S. Have All the Fun? India Must Consider Publishing a Biopiracy Watch List

/ By / Biological Diversity

In light of India featuring (again) in the “Priority Watch List” of the 2025 USTR Special 301 Report, Dr. Anson CJ explores the idea of whether India should come up with its own watch list to monitor biopiracy? Dr. Anson is an Assistant Professor at Madras Christian College, Chennai. His previous post can be accessed here. Why Should the U.S. Have All the Fun? India Must Consider Publishing a Biopiracy Watch List By Dr. Anson C J Each year, the

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Assessing the Cryogas Judgment from the lens of Section 52(1)(w)

/ By / Copyright, Design

Highlighting the missed opportunity to interpret Section 52(1)(w) of the Copyright Act in Cryogas Equipment Private Limited v. Inox India Limited and Others, SpicyIP intern Advika Singh Malik writes on whether the provision could have been roped in by the parties in the present case or not. Advika is a third-year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Noida. She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. Her previous posts can be accessed here. Assessing the Cryogas Judgment from the

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