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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 19-October 25)

A quick tidbit on the free online version of Feroz Ali’s treatise on patent law, interesting orders from various High Courts, and exciting national and international IP developments in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we’ve missed? Drop a comment and let us know! Highlights of the Week SpicyIP Tidbit: Ali on Patents – A Treatise Built for Reading, Citing and Keeping Up Patent research often means working through lengthy judgments to find the reasoning that matters. Prof. Feroz Ali’s

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 12-October 18)

[This Weekly Review is prepared by Kaustub Boidi. Kaustub is a final-year law student at SVKM’s NMIMS, Hyderabad.] Here’s this week’s roundup of IP developments, from posts on the Kerala High Court’s Ribociclib decision, the Delhi HC’s tiered approach to patent appeals in Esteve Pharmaceuticals, the PABS Annex of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, to key judicial decisions and national and international IP updates. Anything we missed out on? Drop a comment below to let us know! Highlights of the Week

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 5-October 11)

From notable orders of the past week to key national and international IP developments, here’s the latest edition of the SpicyIP Weekly Review. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments! Posts this Week The Innovation Brief, NLU Delhi, is inviting blog post submissions on the ‘Impact of the Intersection of Innovation and Access by the EU-India FTA’. The last date to share submissions is October 20, 2026. Interested readers can read the call for submissions below. Case

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 28- October 4)

Beating the Monday blues after a long weekend, here we are with the first Weekly Review of October, featuring a post on Section 124, case summaries of orders passed by different High Courts last week, and updates on other national and international IP developments. Anything we’re missing? Drop a comment and let us know below. Highlights of the Week Can Section 124 be Invoked in Section 47 Cancellation Proceedings under the Trade Marks Act, 1999? The interplay between trademark infringement

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (21 September- 27 September)

Posts on the Delhi High Court’s Zara v Zora ruling, the Madras High Court’s ruling in TCRC v. Ganga Rudraiah, and a post remembering late Dr. Pinaki Ghosh. This and much more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. Highlights of the Week Remembering Prof. (Dr.) Pinaki Ghosh, WBNUJS IP Chair Professor Prof. (Dr.) Pinaki Ghosh’s work in intellectual property took him from laboratories and corporate boardrooms to

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TCRC v. Ganga Rudraiah: Copyright, Acquiescence, and the Cost of an Unwritten Arrangement

The Madras High Court’s decision in TCRC v. Ganga Rudraiah may appear to be about the ownership of BTS photographs from the making of the hit film ‘Aval Appadithan‘. But the reasoning gets considerably less straightforward when the Court’s treatment of Section 17(b), consideration, and acquiescence is examined closely. Vanshika Verma writes on this development below. Vanshika is a fifth-year B.A. LL.B. student at Symbiosis Law School, Noida, with an interest in commercial law, IPR, technology law and policy. TCRC

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (14 September-20 September)

In this edition of the SpicyIP Weekly Review, we have comments submitted by a few of our team members on the IPO’s Draft Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications in the Field of Pharmaceuticals, 2026, along with case summaries of the orders and judgments we were able to find. If we’ve missed anything, drop a comment below and let us know. Highlight of the Week Specific Comments on the IPO’s Draft Pharmaceutical Guidelines (2026) The IPO’s 2026 Draft Pharmaceutical Guidelines

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 7- September 13)

After another busy week and a long weekend, here we are with the SpicyIP Weekly Review with discussions on the Delhi High Court’s evolving approach to personality rights, a closer look at the Court’s decision in the Sugammadex patent dispute. We also had posts on copyright strikes and intermediary due diligence, the ongoing Ribociclib litigation before the Kerala High Court, the paper trail in IPRS v. Hotel Appolo, and the Delhi High Court’s evolving approach towards well-known marks and TM

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Unpacking Copyright Strikes, Safe Harbour and Due Diligence under the IT Rules : Part 2

In continuation of Part 1, this Part tests the arguments run by the Platforms where they state that – striking content upon complaint and terminating accounts with repeated complaints is due diligence which the IT Act and Rules requires. The Concept of a “Voluntary” Takedown The third proviso to Rule 3(1)(d), in force from 2021 until 15 November 2025, had three notable features. It covered removal “under clause (b) on a voluntary basis” and removal on grievances under sub-rule (2).

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Unpacking Copyright Strikes, Safe Harbour and Due Diligence under the IT Rules : Part 1

The Delhi High Court has been recently grappling with issues concerning Copyright Strikes and takedowns by platforms, which have been necessitating Section 60 suits before the IPD Bench in Delhi.  In Saurabh Maurya v. John Doe, CS(COMM) 870 of 2026, the Instagram account of a content creator had been suspended upon copyright strikes. Inspite of restoration of the content by Meta, the Plaintiff has pressed that the mode and manner of dealing with copyright strikes by intermediary platforms is in

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