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Ghost Post: Controllers stuck between a grant and a hard time?

/ By / Patent, Trademark

A few of our recent posts have focused on the executive power of the Patent and Trademark Office (IPTO). Spadika’s post on the order triggering this debate — (Intellectual Property Attorneys Association (IPAA) unsuccessfully challenged an order by the Trademark Registry pertaining to Pre-Registration Amendments of Trademark Application) —  can be found here. Shamnad then followed it up with his post that commended the trend of judicialising the executive, while also critiquing the reasoning in that order. We then had […]

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SpicyIP named in list of Top 50 IP influences once again!

/ By / Others

We are extremely pleased to announce that SpicyIP has been named in ManagingIP’s 2014 list of 50 most influential people in IP worldwide! I reproduce their introduction followed by their portion on SpicyIP. “This is the 12th year we have compiled a list of the 50 most influential people in IP worldwide. Over that time, ideas about influence have changed. It’s no longer the case that IP law and policy is determined by self-important officials sitting in the centres of

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Event: Seminar on Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – Bangalore, August 1st

/ By / Event, Sponsored

IPMetrix is organizing a seminar on “TRIZ” also known as “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving”. Research & Development heads, Engineering, CTO’S Product Designers, Process Designers & New Product Developers may find this seminar to be of interest. Please find the details as mentioned below.   Course Details Registration Details About TRIZ:·      TRIZ is a premier disruptive technology for innovation that can be used throughout many industries and sciences.·      TRIZ is a systematic process that develops critical thinking skills and promotes creativity

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Global Innovation Index 2014 released: A look at India’s performance

/ By / Innovation

Earlier today, WIPO released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2014. The GII is perhaps the most nuanced and holistic annual innovation index that currently exists. The GII 2014 covers 143 economies and uses 81 indicators across a variety of themes. It is co-published by WIPO, Cornell University and INSEAD. You can see our coverage of previous GII editions and how India performed here: 2013, 2012 & 2011. At the outset – this may not be a perfect one, but let me

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SpicyIP Event: Nominations Declared For IP Awards – Premier IPR Conclave 2014, Mumbai

/ By / Event, Sponsored

We’re happy to bring you news of the 3rd Annual Legal Era IPR Conclave & Awards on “IPR: Global Innovation and Growth”! “With an aim to strike a balance between global and economic growth and public policy LegalEra presents you with IPR Conclave & Awards 2014, a unique forum on Intellectual Property Rights which involves discussions from creative as well as business and legal perspectives.” Please see the details of the panels, speakers and nominees below:

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Guest Post: IP Services going Global

/ By / Others, Patent

We’re pleased to bring our readers an extremely interesting guest post by Manoj Pillai that brings a very important perspective that’s been missing from our blog – the direction in which the patent infantry is headed. Manoj lives in New Delhi and does IP work. He co-founded LexOrbis, an IP firm, and co-promoted Clairvolex, an IP solutions provider. IP services is going global and soon it is going to be global IP Solutions A convergence of two significant developments in the

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Bombay HC dismisses challenge to Nexavar Compulsory License

/ By / Patent

Earlier today, Justice M.S. Sanklecha of the Bombay High Court dismissed a challenge by Bayer AG to the IPAB’s decision to grant Natco a compulsory license to manufacture and distribute a generic version of Bayer’s patented kidney cancer drug, Nexavar. As per the Mint report, Justice Sanklecha stated, “We don’t see a reason to interfere with the order passed by IPAB and, therefore, the case is dismissed.” In upholding the Nexavar compulsory license, generic versions of the drug can continue to

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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library

/ By / Copyright

The New Indian Express reports that in a terrific effort, more than 1000 school students and 234 members of the public across the state of Kerala digitized, proof-read and uploaded more than 150 rare and out-of-copyright Malayalam books as part of a digitization contest organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wiki Source project by the Centre for Internet and Society, the state government run IT@School project, Swanthanthra Malayalam Computing and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi online library. While these rare books were

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A quick note of appreciation

/ By / Others

As many of you may know, our SpicyIP team consists of a small group of people (currently 7 students, 2 lawyers and 3 academics/policy folks) who take time out of our usual day-to-day activities to write about this area of law that we feel so passionately about. Though we do try, as I’m sure many of you can also appreciate, it is difficult to keep track of all the important developments occurring in the Indian IP scenario – especially, given

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