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Guest Post: WIPO Green – A new hope for green technology innovators

/ By / Innovation, Patent

We’re happy to announce the first entry for our 2nd SpicyIP Fellowship! Radhika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad brings us a timely post on a new initiative by WIPO called WIPO Green. Released just a couple of days ago, WIPO Green aims to be ‘an interactive marketplace that promotes innovation and diffusion of green technologies’. WIPO Green: A new hope for green technology innovators With environmental protection being the need of the hour, WIPO Green is […]

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Guest Post: Overview & Comparison – Amendments in the Indian Patents Act

/ By / Patent

Nishidh Patel, a final year student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur who recently brought us two guest posts on counterfeits and India, now brings us a great infogram detailing the differences between the 1999, 2002 and 2005 amendments to the Indian Patents Act. Overview & Comparison: Amendments in the Indian Patents Act – 1999, 2002 & 2005 A comparison of various amendments of any law gives us a chance to peep into the mind of the legislature which tries to achieve various objects

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Event Alert: IP Leadership Forum 2014

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SpicyIP would like to remind our readers of the IP Leadership Forum 2014, an international IP conference on the theme “IP Challenges in today’s Turbulent Environment”. The 3 day event will be held from January 7th to January 9th at Le Meridien, New Delhi. If the speaker-page is anything to go by, this is bound to be a terrific event and a great opportunity to meet and interact with several top IP professionals on recent developments in the IP world. WIPO’s PCT Seminar Calendar has

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Examining Trademark Issues in the MEASA Region

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The International Trademark Association’s upcoming conference, “Hot Trademark Topics in the MEASA Region,” marks the first time INTA will host an educational event in the region comprising the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The event will take place December 9–10 at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is being co-chaired by Hoda Barakat (Hoda Barakat Legal Consultancy, UAE) and Charles Shaban (Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property, Jordan). The conference will include three sessions on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs),

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Prices of cancer drugs to rise?

/ By / Data Exclusivity, Patent

According to various tweets (sources mentioned at the bottom) coming in from Salt Lake City, where the current, and possibly last round of the TPP negotiations are happening, MSF’s prediction may be coming true – that the TPP may become the most harmful trade pact ever for access to medicines for developing countries. The USTR is going all out to get their way in the IP and Medicines round. [For our readers who want some background on the TPP, see

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Guest Post: Counterfeit industry landscape in India: A need for introspection

/ By / Copyright, Trademark

Continuing from Nishidh’s previous guest post which looked at USTR’s OCR of Notorious Markets, this 2nd guest post of his inspects the legal landscape for the counterfeit industry in India. Nishidh Patel is a final year student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur. Nishidh also has a PG diploma in Patent law (Nalsar) and a Master of Pharmacy – PQA (MSU, Baroda). He also blogs on IP matters here. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry – Committee Against Smuggling and

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Guest Post: USTR’s OCR of Notorious Markets, 2013

/ By / Copyright, Trademark

We’re happy to bring you a 2 part guest series by Nishidh Patel, a final year student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur. Nishidh also has a PG diploma in Patent law (Nalsar) and a Master of Pharmacy – PQA (MSU, Baroda). He also blogs on IP matters here. The first of the two posts picks up on one of USTR’s reports highlighting India’s counterfeit markets. The second post goes on to examine the legal landscape for counterfeits in India. An Out-of-Cycle Review

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Hear from our Fellows 2013-14!

/ By / Others

We’d like to remind readers of our upcoming SpicyIP Fellowship application window. Applicants will need to send in at least 3 post submissions in the period between December 1st, 2013 and January 15th, 2014. For those of you who are wondering whether this is something you want to do or not, I thought it would be useful to ask our current fellows for a few words on their own experience so far. Here is what they had to say: “Blogging

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India getting mixed signals from Big Pharma

/ By / Patent

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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