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We’re pleased to inform you that a free online course on intellectual property starting on July 31, 2023 is being offered for students on the e-learning platform SWAYAM by Dr. Yogesh Pai, Associate Professor of Law, in charge of the SPRIHA IPR Chair at National Law University, Delhi. For further details, please see the announcement below: Join SWAYAM (Free) Online Course on Intellectual Property by NLU Delhi Title SWAYAM (Free) Online Course on ‘Intellectual Property’ About the Course The course is launched […]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 17- July 23)

/ By / Copyright, Geographical Indication, Others, Patent, Trademark

Last week we published a literature review cum blog post on Artificial Intelligence and IP. We also came across interesting orders from different high courts, notably the Delhi High Court decision on RX Prime and Canva’s patent infringement dispute and two orders on visual similarity between the competing marks. Anything important we’re missing out on? Drop us a comment below!  This post is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Abhijeet Audichya. Abhijeet is a fourth-year law student at Hidayatullah National Law University,

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

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With a plethora of developments and discussions on AI and AI based innovations, almost everyone has an opinion on how it should develop! While there are a number of aspects covered by “Artificial Intelligence”, ranging from definitions to scope, from life-saving to life-threatening, there has been surprisingly limited public policy discussion on the intersection of AI and IP in India. In this post, developed along the lines of a literature review cum blogpost, Yashna Walia has looked through the various

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trademark

[This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Yashna Walia. Yashna is a fifth-year law student at UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law.] Last week saw blogposts on the history of the Berne Convention, data questioning whether patent filing and grant numbers tell the full story, and criticism of the EPOs patent grants. We also came across the Delhi High Court orders on the interplay between the Patents Act and the Competition

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The Wonder That is Berne

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Readers will recall that last month Swaraj announced our IP History series which was followed by Shivam’s incisive posts on India’s entanglement with Berne Convention and the Stockholm Conference. We are now very pleased to bring an intellectually delightful stream of consciousness piece by Achille Forler, triggered in response to our IP History posts. A longtime friend of the blog, Achille is currently serving as an Advisor to the Board of the Indian Performing Right Society. He is also the

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 3- July 9)

/ By / Copyright, Patent, Plant Variety Protection, Trademark

Last week, we had some interesting discussions on the blog and saw some important IP development across the courts. We featured a total of 5 posts discussing 2 significant orders from the Karnataka High Court on Twitter’s writ petition against blocking orders issued by the GOI, and on the copyright infringement complaint filed against the Indian National Congress. We also highlighted that the CGPDTM will recruit 553 Patent and Design Examiners with the help of an autonomous organization, the Quality

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How India Learnt to Stop Complaining and Love Copyright

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[This post is a part of the IP History series and is authored by Shivam Kaushik. Shivam is a 2020 law graduate from Benaras Hindu University and is presently working as a law researcher at the Delhi High Court. The first post of the series on India and the Berne Convention can be accessed here and his previous posts can be accessed here.] In the story of Indian copyright law, the city of Stockholm has a prominent place. We copyright

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 26-July 2)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trademark

Last week was pretty action-packed here on the blog. We featured 8 posts discussing important IP developments like the Bombay High Court’s important clarification on the re-assignment of copyright, the opacity on public money spent on R&D by the government, in the last decade. We also featured important news reports about the change in the roster of Delhi High Court IPD and the declaration of results for the 2023 Patent and Trademark Agent Exams.  Here is our quick recap of

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Sifting Through the Pages: SpicyIP in the Junes

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SpicyIP, in its over 17 years of existence, has discussed a substantial part of Indian IP’s modern evolution. From Prof. Basheer’s first SpicyIP post in October 2005, ‘from the sprawling corn fields of Illinois, Champaign’, till now, July 2023, at 17 years and 8 months old, the blog is nearing the age of legal majority! Another interesting number – in approximately 6400 days of its existence, there have been about 6200 blog posts – averaging almost a blogpost a day

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The Tussle with NCERT: A Copyright Angle

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[This guest post is authored by Pranav Aggarwal. Pranav is a second-year student pursuing B.A.LL.B.(Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He has a keen interest in commercial laws, especially in IP and allied fields.]  The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an autonomous body set up by the Government to ‘assist and advise the Central and State on policies and programmes for qualitative improvement in school education’. And as many readers would know, it has recently

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