A secretive search for prior art

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The agreement between the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to outsource prior art searchesare the IPO’s “confidential documents”, according to CSIR, and it is for the IPO to decide “how much information it wishes to put in the public domain”. CSIR also believes that this information is exempt from being put out in the public domain as it is lying in their possession by virtue of fiduciary relationship with the IPO. This…


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IP in a song: Poplaw and theatre

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(Warning: Long post) Earlier this week, I was at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi, which was packed to full capacity and then some, watching a play called ‘Stories in a Song’. The play itself was a montage of stories which told of how different forms of music of the north Indian tradition had evolved in response to their ages. The music for the play was selected from traditional repertoire and set by Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan (they are the…


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Express right refused, Sunday Standard survives

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(Warning: Long post) An attempt by the The Indian Express (IE) to stop the use of the words ” New Indian Express” (NIE) by its estranged sibling media group outside five Indian states failed after the Delhi High Court refused to grant IE an injunction. Observing that IE had acquiesced to the use of NIE, and reinforcing that the right to carry on a business includes the right to advertise the business, the court said that no case of passing…


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IPO gets 94 new Patents and Designs Examiners

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In a long overdue status update, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) yesterday announced appointment and posting orders for 94 successful candidates who have qualified as Patents and Designs Examiners. You can read the notifications here and here. (The Controller General’s public notice is, funnily enough, dated 27 January 2011 – presumably that is a mistake. They’ve been asked to join the Office on or before 23rd January, 2012, when they will be deputed for a three-month residential training programme at…


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SpicyIP Events: Pharma IPR India 2012, Mumbai, 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2012

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As some of you get into holiday mood, the folks at Pharma IPR India 2012 send us a gentle reminder of their event scheduled for 31 Jan-2 Feb 2012, which we posted on here earlier. It is an event for managing IPR and driving global market entry strategy by analysing latest reforms, patentability and techno-legal intricacies in the pharma and biopharma industry. Holiday Offer – 10% discount on the current discounted rates for all new bookings – valid only till…


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SpicyIP Event: India IP & Innovation Forum, New Delhi, 28 February 2012

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From the folks at Managing IP, we have an event update for you on the India IP & Innovation Forum, scheduled for February 28 next year in New Delhi. See the note below for details, sent to us by James Nurton, Managing editor at www.managingip.com You can always access the event on our calendar, here. You can also click through from the banner on the left column of the blog for more details. India IP & Innovation Forumwww.managingip.com/IndiaIP2012Regency Hyatt Hotel,…


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Parliament returns ‘badly drafted’ commercial division bill

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As promised, here is my outline of what transpired in yesterday’s Rajya Sabha debate on the Commercial Division of High Courts Bill, 2010. Before heading into the meat of the debate, you may be interested in knowing what the Bill is about. Prashant had blogged about the legislation about two years ago, which you can read here. PRS has its own set of documents on the Bill, which you can access here. (Image from here.) About the Bill: The Bill…


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Copyright Bill interrupted by "conflict of interest"

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Two Bills – on amendments to the copyright law, and the commercial division of High Courts – were taken up in the Rajya Sabha as expected today. But neither of them saw any closure. The Rajya Sabha’s discussion on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 was interrupted as soon as it began. Instead, the brief discussion pivoted around the possible “conflict of interest” of the concerned Minister of Human Resource Development, Mr Kapil Sibal (pictured here). This question was raised because…


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SpicyIP Guest Post: Denial of Public Information by IP Offices under RTI Act

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Regular readers of this blog are probably very familiar with the spate of posts covered here relating to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, and applications made before various IP offices in connection with the same. Some of my co-bloggers, notably Prashant Reddy, have achieved considerable success in obtaining information from the offices (which anyway ought to have been in the public domain). Our guest post today, by Sai Vinod Nayani, our ‘regular’ guest blogger, and a fourth year student…


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SpicyIP Guest Post: IIM’s Copyright Over Cat Questions

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) organised by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is an annual examination exercise undertaken by graduate students across India. An equivalent of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), this year’s CAT was in the news a few weeks ago due to an unusual Non-Disclosure Agreement that prospective examinees were asked to sign before taking the test. Sai Vinod Nayani, our ‘regular’ guest blogger, and a fourth year student of NUJS sends us this note on…


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