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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 26-November 1)

/ By / Copyright, Drug Regulation, Patent, Trademark

Announcing the 2026 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition, a post on the ongoing Cadila-Hetero biosimilar dispute ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, and posts on the Indian Designs Office’s draft GUI Guidelines and the Trade Marks Registry’s proposed framework for the use of AI in proceedings. 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 Announcing the 2026 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on

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Announcing the 2026 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law

/ By / Biological Diversity, Copyright, Data Exclusivity, Design, Geographical Indication, Innovation, Opportunities, Patent, Trademark

Celebrating the 50th birth anniversary of Prof. Basheer, earlier this year, we had promised to return with the 2026 edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. And we are now delighted to announce the launch of this year’s competition! A master with the pen, Prof. Basheer continues to inspire us with his ability to make complex legal ideas accessible to a wider audience. Our long-time readers, and the many others who have engaged with his work,

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Draft Trade Marks Manual 2026: Gaps DPIIT Must Address Before It Goes Final

/ By / Others, Trademark

On August 21, 2026, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Trade (DPIIT) published a Draft Manual on Trade Marks: Practice & Procedure 2026 (Draft Manual) in the Gazette of India, inviting public comments within fifteen days. Running over two hundred pages, the Draft Manual is meant to be the operational rulebook for examiners and registrars and a guide for prospective applicants of a mark. The Draft Manual is an updated version of the 2015 Manual. It has added a

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A Fake Judgment, an AI-Designed Mark and a Missing Declaration: What Do the TMR’s Draft AI Guidelines Actually Regulate?

/ By / Trademark

The draft Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Proceedings before the Trade Marks Registry seek to address the growing concerns around AI-generated fabricated citations and misleading evidence. However, as explained by Kaustub Boidi, the proposed framework leaves important questions unanswered about the Registry’s own verification responsibilities, the treatment of legitimate AI-assisted translations, and whether the prescribed consequences are proportionate to different forms of non-compliance. Kaustub is a final-year law student at SVKM’s NMIMS, Hyderabad. His interests lie in

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Can You Trademark Your Way Out of Bad PR? Delhi HC Fines Niva Bupa Re. 1 for Trying

/ By / Trademark

Recently, the Delhi High Court, in Niva Bupa v. Vishal Rattewal imposed Re. 1 in notional costs after finding the plaintiffs’ suit to be a “misuse” of the IPD’s special jurisdiction. In this post, Aryan Agrawal examines whether the failure of a trademark infringement claim is sufficient to constitute such misuse, and whether the Court adequately considered the IPD Rules’ express inclusion of disparagement within its remit. Aryan is an advocate practising before the Delhi High Court and an Associate

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 19-October 25)

/ By / Copyright, Design, Patent, Trademark

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)

/ By / Copyright, Drug Regulation, Patent, Trademark

[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)

/ By / Copyright, Patent, Trademark

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)

/ By / Copyright, Patent, Trademark

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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Can Section 124 be Invoked in Section 47 Cancellation Proceedings under the Trade Marks Act, 1999?

/ By / Trademark

The interplay between trademark infringement proceedings and non-use cancellation proceedings under Sections 47 and 124 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 raises a deceptively simple question: can a Section 47 proceeding trigger a stay of an infringement suit? With the Calcutta and Delhi High Courts taking divergent approaches, Arushi Bisht and Snehal Singh examine the statutory and practical implications of treating “rectification proceedings” under Section 124 as encompassing non-use cancellation proceedings. Arushi Bisht is an Intellectual Property Attorney with four

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