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India getting mixed signals from Big Pharma

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The International Business Times reports that there is talk about India possibly seeing a complaint being lodged against it at the WTO due to its ‘disregard of corporate intellectual property’. This discussion came up at the US Chamber of Commerce’s event “Innovation in India: A Risky Investment?”.  According to IP-Watch, the Chamber did not do most of the talking but rather presentations were made by two think tank consultants, Shankar Singham of Babson Global and Paul Howard of Manhattan Institute. IP […]

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INTA Event: Hot TM Topics in MEASA Region

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The International Trademark Association Brings Hot Trademark Topics and Leading Experts from Around the Globe to Dubai. 2013 Hot TM Topics in the MEASA Region December 9–10, 2013 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jumeirah Emirates TowersGrowing numbers of multinational trademark owners are successfully expanding their brands in the Middle East and surrounding regions, and the trend is going strong. This steady commercial activity has led to an increased need for trademark protection as well as strategies to fight infringement and the

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Artists petition for resale rights

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The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), the European Visual Arts (EVA), and the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC) have recently started a petition to include artists’ resale rights in the next revision of the Berne Convention. The petition wants to ensure that all Berne countries guarantee that authors of graphic and plastic arts receive a small percentage of the resale price that art market professionals make when the art in question is

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NIPO IP Academy and ‘Expert programme in patents’

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We are pleased to inform our readers of an Expert Programme in Patents by NIPO. SpicyIP readers can avail of a small discount by mentioning SpicyIP at the time of registration. Please read on for more details: NIPO is an umbrella initiative on developing policy initiatives in the area of IP; harnessing Intellectual Property assets & knowledge to generate economic wealth; help & assist individuals & organizations in capacity building and work as a platform for development, promotion, protection, compliance

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Wikileaked! Leaked IP Chapter of TPP shows that US could be an IP Terrorist

/ By / Copyright, Data Exclusivity, Innovation, Others, Patent

On 13th November, Wikileaks released a leaked copy of the consolidated IP negotiating chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). [A big thanks to whoever leaked it to Wikileaks!]. This post will look into the contents of that leaked chapter and describe exactly how messed up it is – but first a tangential observation. In a couple of earlier posts (here and here) we had discussed certain (earlier) leaked provisions of the draft chapter US had put forth in the negotiations.

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Creative Commons India relaunched

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Creative Commons (CC) saw its India chapter relaunched in Delhi on November 12th by Wikimedia India, Centre for Internet & Society, and Acharya Narendra Dev College (of DU). Creative commons, as many of our readers may know, turns traditional notions of copyright on its head. Instead of the usual focus on ‘all rights reserved’, a CC license focuses on which rights the creator is relinquishing and places the focus on “some rights reserved” allowing a more contributory and participatory creative environment.

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2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship

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Right on the heels of our new website’s launch, we’re happy to also announce our 2nd SpicyIP Fellowship! Anubha, Aparajita and Gopika – our first crop of SpicyIP Fellows whom we’ve been very happy with – have all been invited to stay on to be part of our team after their fellowship period expires in February. [Edit: Click here to see what they have to say about their experience so far!] As was the case last year, we’re on the lookout for

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SpicyIP 2.0: We’re live!

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Warm greetings to all our readers! We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website SpicyIP.com. It’s been eight years since Prof. Shamnad Basheer started SpicyIP as a blog dedicated to the reportage and analysis of IP laws and developments in India. We are now finally moving from Google’s blogging platform (spicyipindia.blogspot.com) to our own full fledged website – for a new look, more functionality and hopefully a spicier IP experience for our readers! Over the years our

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Guest Post: IP LLM Guide

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As LLM application deadlines approach, I thought it could be helpful for us to put out some guidelines or factors that applicants may want to consider while going through the tedious process of application and selection of universities – especially for those who are looking specifically at IP focused LLMs. (For those interested in a general LLM guide, Livelaw has put out a detailed 4 part series here). I asked Krithika D.N. if she could write us a guest post

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Fire in the Blood – Reviewed

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The narrative of IP is one that has been more or less hegemonized over the last 30 years. Simply stated, it is that “IP rights are good. Moreover, IP rights are necessary”. More controversially though, this narrative is “logically” extended to: “If IP is good, more IP must be better”. Despite the various nuances and details that IP regimes have displayed, this simplistic narrative still holds a powerful role in both public discourse as well as policy making. Several studies have

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