Author name: Sumathi Chandrasekharan

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

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For the Pharma enthusiasts amongst you, SpicyIP wishes to inform readers of the upcoming Pharma IPR India 2012, 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. The organisers of the event inform us that you will get an early bird discount upon registering with them before 9 December 2011. The organisers also send us the following details about the event: DATES: 31 Jan: […]

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"Concept level rethinking" helps Virgin survive pre-grant from Jet

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In a matter closely tracked by patent attorneys and the aviation sector for some years now, the Chennai Patent Office last week finally issued its decision on the opposition filed by Jet Airways and the UK-based Contour Airspace Ltd in favour of the patent applicant, i.e., Virgin Atlantic Airways. You can download and read the 128-page decision here. This case, as you will gather, involves a complex series of events, including the filing of two oppositions, and a parallel re-examination

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FICCI launches Online Certificate Course in IP

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FICCI has launched an Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property, for which registrations are scheduled to begin next month. FICCI sends us the following information on the course, and related registration details. Please don’t forget to mention you came via SpicyIP! — Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has started an Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property (IP). The objective of the Course is to increase awareness about IP in the Society for the benefit of the

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Of ties, school ties and alumni

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School ties are easy enough to get rid of. Mine was navy blue, with sky blue stripes on it. Not very pretty, but I have still kept it, grudgingly, to remind me of those horror-some years. But college ties are a completely different story. As I was to discover in the three years after school. It’s been a while since, but college is still not out of mind. (image from here) But enough about me and my collection of ties.

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SpicyIP Events: IIPRD hosts patent symposiums in Mumbai/Hyderabad in Oct ’11

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SpicyIP is informed that the Institute of Intellectual Property Research and Development (IIPRD) will be hosting two symposiums on Advanced Patent Issues in Mumbai and Hyderabad in October 2011. Details of the events are as below. You can also see them in the SpicyIP calendar. IIPRD (Institute of Intellectual Property Research & Development), a premier IP Consulting Firm in India, is pleased to announce its two Annual Symposiums on Pharma/Biotech and Software/Electronics Patent issues respectively. SYMPOSIUM 1: One Day International

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Darjeeling Lounge survives: Tea Board loses appeal

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The Tea Board of India has lost its appeal before the Calcutta High Court to injunct the Indian conglomerate ITC Limited, and its hospitality/hotel chain, from using the word “Darjeeling” in connection with its tea lounge. In its order dated 24 August 2011, a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court emphatically upheld the earlier decision of the Single Judge (which we reported on here and here), saying that the injunction had been refused on “well-established principles”, and that the

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An RTI wake-up call for the IPO

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A recent decision of the Central Information Commission under the Right to Information Act (and no, this was not drafted by people at SpicyIP!) has asked the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), Kolkata, to respond to a request for basic clarifications about the patents system in India. You can read the decision here. Ordinarily, this would have been dismissed as being fairly inconsequential and peripheral to discussions on SpicyIP, but on second glance, it raises some relevant questions about IP awareness

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SpicyIP in MIP’s Top 50 Shaping the Future of IP

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SpicyIP is pleased to report Managing IP’s annual selection of the top 50 who are shaping the future of intellectual property. This year, MIP has focused on individuals rather than institutions which includes an unconventional and eclectic collection of bloggers, artists, litigants and campaigners, besides politicians, judges, regulators and bureaucrats form around the world. The SpicyIP team is honoured and (at least on my part) a little overwhelmed to have been selected to be on this list. SpicyIP is among

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SpicyIP Jobs: IP Associate opening in Delhi

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We have a job posting for an IP associate with a niche IP law firm in south Delhi. Pooja Dodd, Chief Guru, at IP Gurus, sends us this note below. Please do send across your resume to her if you are interested, and don’t forget to mention that you came via SpicyIP! “We are a niche IP law firm based in South Delhi. Although we are small in size, our firm is listed in the Managing IP India rankings. We

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Guest Post: German-published computer programme keeps copyright in India

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Our regular guest blogger Suchita Saigal sends us this post on a copyright infringement suit recently decided by the Delhi High Court, in favour of SAP AG, a Germany-based global IT company with expertise in enterprise software applications. Sap Aktiengesellschaft & Anr. v. Mr. Sadiq Pasha (CS(OS) No. 255/2005) is a software copyright infringement case decided by the Delhi High Court. The case was decided in favour of the plaintiffs and the defendant was ordered to pay punitive damages amounting

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