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

/ By / Event, Patent, Trade Secret

And it’s a wrap!After five months of engaging with thought-provoking policy recommendations on pressing issues concerning SEPs and trade secrets, we are delighted to announce the results of the 1st National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property & Innovation 2025, organised by SpicyIP in collaboration with CIPAM, DPIIT. The final round of the competition was held on February 27 at a grand and elegant setting befitting the occasion, in Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi. The event saw eight finalists present their […]

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Announcing the Finalists of the 1st National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property & Innovation 2025!

/ By / Opportunities, Patent, Trade Secret

After an engaging pre-final round on February 10, we are delighted to announce the finalists of the 1st National Policy Brief Competition on Intellectual Property & Innovation, 2025 organized by SpicyIP and CIPAM, DPIIT! The pre-final round witnessed thoughtful presentations from our shortlisted teams, followed by rigorous engagement with questions from the fantastic panel of judges comprising Ms. Sumathi Chandrashekaran, Ms. Abhilasha Nautiyal, and Mr. Murali Neelakantan. We are immensely grateful to our judges for their time and careful evaluation,

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2025

/ By / Competition Law, Copyright, Data Exclusivity, Design, Drug Regulation, Geographical Indication, Innovation, Patent, Plant Variety Protection, Podcast, Trade Secret, Trademark

[This post is completely human authored 🙂 These humans include – Praharsh Gour, Vasundra Koul, Arshiya Gupta, and Vikram Raj Nanda. Selection and Supervision by- Praharsh Gour, Swaraj Paul Barooah, and Bharathwaj RamakrishnanResearch Inputs from Yohann Titus Mathew, Riddhi Yogesh Bhutada, Ayush Shetty, Sumit Kumar Singh, Shailraj Jhalnia, Himanshu Mishra, Bhavya Gupta, Aali Jaiswal, Anushka Kanabar, Srishti Gaur, Arshya Wadhwa, and Daanish Naithani.] 2025 was quite an eventful year. On the judicial side, we saw a variety of novel developments, such

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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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