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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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Strengthening Innovation: Kerala’s Vision for IPR and TK

/ By / Innovation, Patent, Traditional Knowledge

Recently, a committee to revise Kerala’s 2008 IP and TK policy was formulated. The Committee will work on the draft 2025 policy and revise the policy for the state after 17 years. Looking at the draft version of the 2025 Policy, SpicyIP Intern Advika Singh Malik highlights its key recommendations and compares it with the previous policy from 2008. Advika is a third-year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Noida. She is interested in pursuing IP and tech litigation. Her

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Analysing the Results of Patent Agent Exam 2025

/ By / Patent

Discussing an anomaly in the results of the Indian Patent Agent Exams, Rajiv Kumar Choudhary explains how viva voce played a determinative role in the results for some of the candidates, despite them securing the qualifying marks in Paper I and II. Rajiv is a practicing advocate based in New Delhi. He specialises in IP law, with a focus on high-technology and patent law. His core IP interest areas are the intersection of technology and IP, Indian IP policy, innovation,

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Announcing the SpicyIP Summer School!

/ By / Opportunities

Something exciting is in the works for the Indian IP enthusiast community. After a sneak peek a few weeks ago, we have now started accepting applications for the inaugural edition of the SpicyIP Summer School! Designed to empower students to cultivate critical pluralism in approaching Intellectual Property (IP) law and policy, the Summer School aims to break move away from the traditional approach that treats IP in isolation, and rather, positions it as a dynamic governance mechanism that shapes and

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New Twist in the PPL-Azure Tale: Supreme Court Stays the DHC’s Direction to Azure to Pay PPL at the RMPL Rates for its Sound Recordings   

/ By / Copyright

[This post is authored by Kartik Sharma. Kartik is a fourth-year student at the National Law School of India University and was the third prize winner in the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP law.]  To all the interested readers, there is another intriguing update in the Azure-PPL litigation story. Last week, a division bench of the Delhi HC had modified the single bench’s interim injunction passed against Azure Hospitality and on law held that PPL cannot issue licenses without itself

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