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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 10 – July 16)

[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

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)

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

[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)

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

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

[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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‘Win-Win Situation’: Compulsory Licensing Royalties Decided by Madras High Court

[This guest post is authored by Devangini Rai. Devangini is a graduate of the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She is an IP lawyer based out of New Delhi. Though she has represented the parties involved in this dispute in the past, the views expressed here are those of the author’s alone. She has previously written for SpicyIP here.] Pronouncing yet another judgement in the compulsory licensing litigation under Section 31(1)(b) of

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Over the Last Decade India has Spent Rs. 1,00,000 crores on Scientific Research with No Transparency: Time to Resuscitate the PUPFIP?

We are extremely pleased to bring to our readers a guest post by Prashant Reddy T. and Saranya Ravindran on the lack of transparency on public funded R&D in India. Prashant, one of our most prolific bloggers, is an advocate and an author. Saranya is a 3rd year student at Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad. Over the Last Decade India has Spent Rs. 1,00,000 crores on Scientific Research with No Transparency: Time to Resuscitate the PUPFIP? Prashant Reddy T. and

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Proving ‘Bonafide’ Marriages: Del HC’s ‘Sanskari’ Interpretation of Section 52(1)(za)

[This guest post is authored by Anjali Baskar. Anjali is a fourth-year student pursuing B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from School of Law, Christ University, Bengaluru. She is keenly interested in exploring various fields in law, especially IP, Media & Entertainment.] (Unsatisfactory) Track Record vis-à-vis Section 52(1)(za) Last time the court tried to interpret Section 52(1)(za) regarding playing of copyrighted sound recordings (back in October 2022), it resulted in an ‘amicable’ settlement between the parties, being PPL (Plaintiff) and an event management

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