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Not A Saathi After All: Why Sanchar Saathi Rings Alarm for Trade Secrets

/ By / Privacy, Trade Secret

The Sanchar Saathi application has largely been analysed as a privacy issue. However, as Anjali Tripathi argues in this entry for the SpicyIP–jhana Blogpost Writing Competition, it raises a more serious and underexplored concern—one that could directly threaten the protection of trade secrets and confidential business information in India’s smartphone-first economy. Anjali is a fifth-year law student at JGLS with an interest in IP rights, access to education, and the creative arts. Not A Saathi After All: Why Sanchar Saathi […]

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Announcing 1st National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property & Innovation 2025 by SpicyIP and CIPAM, DPIIT

/ By / Drug Regulation, Opportunities, Patent, Trade Secret

Kickstarting November with some good news for young IP policy enthusiasts, we are elated to announce the 1st National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property & Innovation 2025! This exciting competition aims to encourage students to look beyond textbooks and statutory provisions, and to explore the dynamic relationship between intellectual property, innovation, and societal progress. By engaging with contemporary IP issues that shape India’s legal and creative ecosystem, the competition seeks to foster critical thinking and contribute meaningfully to the

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Event Report of the Inaugural SpicyIP Summer School!

/ By / Copyright, Drug Regulation, Event, Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark

Last month saw SpicyIP converting a long-standing idea into reality, with the successful completion of the 2025 SpicyIP Summer School! An idea that had first been mooted maybe a decade or so ago by Shamnad, it was something that we had just not been able to get to for various reasons. This year too, as we moved close to March, we had almost given up on trying for it this year. But fortunately, a conversation with Dr Zakir Thomas took

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 13 – January 19)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the post on the analysis of Cigma Events Private Limited v. Deepak Gupta & Ors and enforcing criminal remedies against IP infringement in India. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week Trust Issues – When Secrets Come with a Commercial Price: Analyzing Cigma Events Private

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Trust Issues- When Secrets Come with a Commercial Price: Analyzing Cigma Events Private Limited v. Deepak Gupta & Ors

/ By / Trade Secret

Discussing the Delhi High Court’s clarification regarding the economic value of the information to qualify as confidential information, SpicyIP Intern Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan explains the Court’s finding in Cigma Events v. Deepak Gupta. Bharathwaj is a 3rd year LLB Student at RGSOIPL, IIT Kharagpur, and loves books and IP. His previous posts can be accessed here. Trust Issues- When Secrets Come with a Commercial Price: Analyzing Cigma Events Private Limited v. Deepak Gupta & Ors By Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan In a recent case

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 30 – January 5)

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summaries of the posts on India’s Top IP Developments in 2024, a potential trade secret litigation at the Delhi HC and Screenwriters Rights Association of India’s registration as Copyright Society. This and a lot more in this week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below to let us know. Highlights of the Week A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2024

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Revisiting Trade Secrets in the Light of The Delhi High Court’s Decision in the Navigators Logistics Case

/ By / Trade Secret

[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Kaustubh Chakrabarti. Kaustubh is a second year BA.LLB. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.] Recently, a division bench of the Delhi High Court in Navigators Logistics Ltd vs Kashif Qureshi has provided relief to an appellant whose plaint application was rejected by a single judge bench back in 2018. The single judge bench had relied on Order VII Rule 11 of CPC to reject the plaint holding that there was

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SpicyIP 2024 Year End Review

A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2024

/ By / Biological Diversity, Competition Law, Copyright, Geographical Indication, Innovation, Others, Patent, Plant Variety Protection, Privacy, Trade Secret, Trademark, Traditional Knowledge

[This post is authored by – Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan, Md. Sabeeh Ahmad, Aishani Chatterjee, Swaraj Barooah, and Praharsh Gour with research inputs from Aarav Gupta, Tejas Misra, Aditi Bansal, Mansi Bhatia, Yukta Chordia, Bhuwan Sarine, Shravya Pandre, Deepali Vashist, and Malavika S. Nair.] 2024 has been an explosive year for IP developments in India, with more IP divisions coming up in different High Courts, an increasing number of IP registrations and an overall higher degree of attention on IP issues in

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New Roster Out: Welcome Calcutta HC Intellectual Property Rights Division

/ By / Copyright, Design, Patent, Plant Variety Protection, Trade Secret, Trademark

[This post is authored by Md. Sabeeh Ahmad. Sabeeh is an Advocate and is a law graduate from AMU, Aligarh. His previous posts can be accessed here.] The Calcutta High Court has on October 8, 2024, notified the new roster of judges. Most noticeably and for the interest of our readers, the Cal HC has also notified the roster for the newly formed Intellectual Property Rights Appellate Division and Intellectual Property Rights Division with effect from November 4, 2024. Readers will

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Calcutta High Court Notifies IPD Rules: A Quick Comparison 

/ By / Copyright, Design, Geographical Indication, Patent, Plant Variety Protection, Trade Secret, Trademark

On September 20, the notification for the Calcutta High Court’s IP Division Rules were published in the Kolkata Gazette, making it the newest High Court, after Delhi and Madras, to have its own dedicated IP Division and relevant Rules. These Rules, officially called as “The Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules of the High Court at Calcutta, 2023”, (Cal HC IPD Rules or Final Rules) are drafted consequent to the abolition of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board via the Tribunal Reforms

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