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Life of P.I. – Keynote address by Justice Prabha Sridevan

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Justice Prabha Sridevan, Chairman of the IPAB, who just a few days ago upheld India’s first post TRIPs era Compulsory License, gave a very well received speech “Life of P.I.” (Public Interest) as the keynote speaker for the MIP India and Innovation Forum held in Delhi yesterday. Her marathon 7 hour dictation while upholding the compulsory license order started out by establishing that ‘Compulsory Licensing’ is not a bad word and her keynote address yesterday seemed to place that thought in […]

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SpicyIP Event: Announcing Expert Speaker Panel for Pharma IPR 2013

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We’d like to remind our readers of the 2nd Annual Pharma IPR 2013 conference taking place from 10th – 12th April, 2013 in Mumbai, India. This exclusive conference is specifically designed for intellectual property professionals from the pharma and biopharma industry to gain an in-depth understanding about evolving global IPR practices, updates on the patent regime and strategies to enter new and emerging markets. Patent regimes and market entry strategies will be discussed of over 10 countries including: USA, Europe,

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SpicyIP Event: MIP India IP and Innovation Forum

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The MIP India IP and Innovation Forum 2013 will be held on March 7th at Le Meridien, New Delhi.   With several notable speakers and topics which are particularly pertinent to IP matters in India currently, the forum looks to be an exciting one. To see the agenda, please click here. Please see below for a note from MIP on the event.  ‘Technical legal advice, reflections on the Indian patent system and insider guidance on monetizing IP come together at

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SpicyIP Event: Pharma IPR 2013

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We are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Pharma IPR 2013 conference taking place from 10th – 12th April, 2013 in Mumbai, India. This exclusive conference is specifically designed for intellectual property professionals from the pharma and biopharma industry to gain an in-depth understanding about evolving global IPR practices, updates on the patent regime and strategies to enter new and emerging markets. Patent regimes and market entry strategies will be discussed of over 10 countries including: USA, Europe, Japan, China, Korea,

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SpicyIP Events: MIP’s 2nd Annual India IP and Innovation Forum

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Managing IP will be holding its 2nd Annual India IP and Innovation Forum on March 7th, 2013 at Le Meridian, New Delhi. Please see more details below: “It is generally expected that despite economic difficulties in 2012, India is set to see a steady rate of improvement in 2013 where its business and innovation are concerned. Earlier this month a feature in the Financial Times stated that: ‘India’s prospects have now started to improve. Investors, economists and the government say

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Announcing the SpicyIP Fellows for 2013 – 2014!

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After a great response to our call for applications for our first SpicyIP Fellowship, we are pleased to announce the selected Fellows for 2013 – 2014. We’d like to thank all those who participated in the Fellowship application process and especially those who continued to send in multiple entries based on the feedback from previous submissions. We received about 40 submissions during the 6 week period from December 14th – January 25th. Of these, 18 were selected as guest posts

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Guest Post: Looking at IPR Policy in Climate change action

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To wrap up our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series*, we bring you a final post by Anubha Sinha. In this post, she discusses the urgent need to involve and adapt our IPR policy to better address the fight against climate change.  *Note: We are yet to review a few posts by authors that have fallen short of the three posts required for the fellowship. These will be reviewed and published in our normal guest series in the coming week.  Climate Change

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Correction: Meerut scissors GI still in application phase.

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Recently we had a guest post stating that Meerut scissors had in fact been granted GI status. After cross checking a comment we received from Shailendra, we would like to note that we made an error with this post and it is in fact still in the ‘new application’ status. According to the author of that post, the following reports led to the confusion:  The Hindu states:  “For the first time, a handmade tool from micro and small and medium

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Guest Post: Graphene – Indian Patent filings dismal compared to neighbours

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Anubha Sinha, a 4th year student from Dr RML National Law University, brings us her 2nd post for our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. In this post, she looks at the research and patents behind a fascinating new material that has been making waves in the science and technology world. After taking note of the tremendous patent activity surrounding this material in the rest of the world, she points out that Indian research centers have been left far far behind in

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Guest Post: For whom is the Indian IPR Regime?

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Aparajita Lath brings us her third submission to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Usually, when we’re discussing ‘access’ and IP, we’re referring to diffusion of innovation. In this post though, she points out that for most of our country, accessing the reigns of this system as an inventor is problematic as well. For who is the Indian Intellectual Property Right Regime?   “I went through thirty-five stages. I began with the Queen upon the Throne. I ended with the Deputy

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