Author name: Swaraj Paul Barooah

.

Japanese light signs for proceed, caution, stop

[Updated] COVID-19 Related Adjournments at Indian Patent Office, IPAB

/ By / COVID-19, Others

[Further related adjournments have been updated on this page. If readers know of other adjournments that are not listed here, we request you to mention them in the comments below. The edits that have been included since the first posting of this include: Final Edit: 26/03/20:  Cancellation of hearings in Patent Office amid COVID19: See here All IP Offices to remain closed for 21 days:See here Last date to Register for Patent Agent Exam-2020 Extended to 15.04.2020 : See here […]

[Updated] COVID-19 Related Adjournments at Indian Patent Office, IPAB Read More »

3D medical depiction of coronavirus

Patent Politics in the Time of Corona

/ By / COVID-19, Data Exclusivity, Patent

The new coronavirus threat/scare seems to be increasing with every passing day. At the time of writing this, it is reported that there are 138,941 cases (of which 80,815 are in China), of which 70,727 have recovered, 57,317 in mild condition, 5,786 are serious, and 5,111 have died. India has 81 cases of which 4 have recovered and 1 person has died. The new Coronavirus, or COVID 19 as it is technically known is, is now the 7th known coronavirus (other

Patent Politics in the Time of Corona Read More »

graffiti saying "Secret Party, shhh"

What MoU? What Review of IP Acts?

/ By / Others

Yesterday evening, Reuters sent out a short report titled “India clears accord on intellectual property rights with U.S.” It contained the following three lines: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to sign an initial pact on intellectual property rights with the United States, a government minister said, days ahead of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump. The United States has long urged India to strengthen protection for intellectual property and that has been a

What MoU? What Review of IP Acts? Read More »

US flag vs India flag

The GIPC IP Index 2020: The Misleading Saga Continues

/ By / Innovation, Others, Patent

(This post has been co-authored with Bhavik Shukla) Recently, the Global Innovation Policy Center (“GIPC”) released the 2020 edition of its international IP Index. Titled “Art of the Possible”, the report lays emphasis on a strong IP ecosystem to make the art of transformation of economies to 21st century knowledge-based economies possible. It has unfortunately continued with the same flawed indicators from the previous years. In the past, one of the authors of this post and Kartik have elaborately discussed

The GIPC IP Index 2020: The Misleading Saga Continues Read More »

Players playing table-tennis

The Ping-Ponging Paradigm of Patenting Computer Programmes in India (“Software Patenting” 1999-2020)

/ By / Patent

Patents for Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) or “Software Patents” have, unfortunately, been an evergreen issue in India, with much confusion, lobbying, changes, misunderstandings, and anything else one could imagine, playing its role at some point or the other. As Shamnad had once written – its indeed confusingly confounding! Readers may recall a recent post which discussed the Ferid Allani order. As Sandeep Rathod helpfully pointed out in the comments on that post – that patent application has once again been

The Ping-Ponging Paradigm of Patenting Computer Programmes in India (“Software Patenting” 1999-2020) Read More »

"Technically Moses is the first man to download files from the cloud using a tablet"

Looking at the Ferid Allani Order on Software Patents

/ By / Patent

Who would have thought a Tunisian citizen would end up having a couple of major impacts on the Indian IP landscape? Yet, Ferid Allani, in his quest to get a patent on a “method and device for accessing information sources and services on the web” has inadvertently done just that. Back in 2008, in the course of an appeal against the IPO’s deeming of the patent to have been abandoned, Justice Gita Mittal of the Delhi High Court, passed an

Looking at the Ferid Allani Order on Software Patents Read More »

The 7 pillars that it refers to are: Innovation input aka 'enabler' pillars: (1) Human Capital, (2) Investment, (3) Knowledge Employment, (4) Business Environment, and (5) Safety and Legal Environment; and Innovation output aka 'performance' pillars: (1) Knowledge Output and (2) Knowledge Diffusion. While the report 

The India Innovation Index 2019 – Great Start, But Why Hide Section 3(d) and CLs in It?

/ By / Innovation, Patent

On October 24th, the Niti Aayog released the first edition of the India Innovation Index (III). The Institute for Competitiveness was the knowledge partner for this endeavour. After years of various other global and pseudo global innovation (and IP) indices, it is a welcome development to see a national index that examines innovation within the country. It’s a 250+ page document with a substantial amount of data and analysis, as well as a large number of (very useful) graphical representations,

The India Innovation Index 2019 – Great Start, But Why Hide Section 3(d) and CLs in It? Read More »

News clipping with text quoting Abhijit Banerjee, "Yes. It was very early in the morning. I’m not an early morning person. I figured it would be an assault to the system if I don’t continue my sleep"

(Nobel) Prizes and Patents: Kremer and AMCs

/ By / Innovation, Patent

As readers know by now, the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially known as “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”) went to Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for their work in development economics. All three have done remarkable work and several sites have discussed this in varying degrees of detail as a web search will show (for eg: do check the Marginal Revolution blog which has listed out the various papers done by

(Nobel) Prizes and Patents: Kremer and AMCs Read More »

A picture of Prof Shamnad Basheer

The Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of Law [Apply by Sep 15]

/ By / Others

Even as we continue to come to terms with the passing of Prof. Shamnad Basheer, it has been of some comfort to hear of the various initiatives and ideas that people have started considering to help continue carry his legacy forward, in both the IDIA community as well as the IP community. While we look forward to seeing many of these ideas bloom, we are pleased to bring to our readers news of one such initiative that has just been

The Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of Law [Apply by Sep 15] Read More »

India’s National IPR Policy Approved

/ By / Others

India’s National IPR Policy was approved by the Union Cabinet yesterday. Readers can view the final policy here (PDF). I’m yet to go through it, so am reserving comments for now. Our previous posts on the draft policy can be found here. Press release pasted below: “Creative India; Innovative India: रचनात्मक भारत; अभिनव भारत”  The Union Cabinet yesterday approved the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy that will lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India. The Policy recognises

India’s National IPR Policy Approved Read More »

Scroll to Top