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Should India Invoke Section 157A of Patents Act in the Context of Covid-19?

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 We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Shirin Syed, looking at the potential application of Article 73(b) of WTO TRIPS / Section 157A of the Indian Patents Act in the context of Covid-19. Shirin is an IP researcher and scholarship awardee from Texas A&M University, School of Law, USA for the fall of 2020. Should India Invoke Section 157A of Patents Act in the Context of Covid-19? Shirin Syed In response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a […]

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The Fortunes of Indian Copyright Societies

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A few years ago in 2018, I had written about the financial state of Indian copyright societies dealing with music. At the time, things were not looking well for the two main copyright societies in the music industry, which are the Indian Performing Rights Societies (IPRS) and the Phonographic Performance Ltd. (PPL). While IPRS collects royalties for use of music and lyrics, PPL collects royalties for use of the sound recordings. The revenues for both copyright societies at the time

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LexisNexis IP’s Live Webinar on ‘Patent Analytics: A Scientific Approach’ [August 6]

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We’re glad to inform you that LexisNexis IP is organizing a live webinar on ‘Patent Analytics: A Scientific Approach’ on August 6, 2020. For further details, please read the announcement below: Live Webinar on ‘Patent Analytics: A Scientific Approach’ | August 6, 2020 We, LexisNexis Intellectual Property, are delighted to invite you to join a live webinar on ‘Patent Analytics: A Scientific Approach’ that we’ll be organizing on August 6, 2020. In this webinar we will discuss analytics methodologies to

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Reengineering of the Requirement of Disclosure of Foreign Applications by the 2019 Patent Manual

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We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Shivam Kaushik, discussing the impact and legality of the guiding principles regarding the requirement of disclosure of foreign patent applications, as introduced by the 2019 version of the Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure. Shivam is a 5th year law student at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has previously also written two guest posts for us, titled ‘Copyright and Webinars: Ownership, Licensing and Fair Use’ and ‘Govt’s Draft Model

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Solutionism, Social Innovation and IP

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Back in 1970, Justice Stephen Breyer, (now of the US Supreme Court, then a professor at Harvard Law School), in contemplating the proposals to extend copyright terms, wrote an interesting article where he pointed out that the Copyright regime seemed to be based more on fear, than on fact (paywalled link). His conclusion regarding the copyright system, ended up echoing what the economist Fritz Machlup had famously said even earlier, in 1958, about the patent system – that if we

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Onerous Copyright Licensing, Fair Dealing and Alternatives to TikTok

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Content sharing platform TikTok is the first among the list of apps in the Indian government’s recent Press Release, announcing a ban on 59 Chinese applications due to concerns such as threat to “sovereignty and integrity of India.” As mentioned in an insightful piece by Ameet Datta, there are many copyright obstacles before the call to find a comparable Indian substitute for TikTok can be materialised. Datta refers to three types of licenses that any service modelled on TikTok’s format

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IDMA Sues the Central Government over ‘Missing’ Technical Member for Patent Cases at the IPAB

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Almost a year after the Delhi High Court’s bizarre order in the Mylan case, the Indian Drug Manufacturer’s Association (IDMA), represented by Advocate Guruswamy Natraj has sued the Central Government over the missing technical member for patent matters on the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB). The case number is W.P. 4430 of 2020. This lawsuit appears to be part of a ritual undertaken before the Delhi High Court every few years where the government is dragged to court due to

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JGLS’ Panel Discussion on ‘Can We Reimagine International Institutions? A Third World Perspective’ [July 25]

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We’re glad to inform our readers that Centre for International Legal Studies at Jindal Global Law School is organising an online panel discussion on ‘Can We Reimagine International Institutions? A Third World Perspective’ on July 25, 2020, as part of a series of events title ‘International Law, Political Economy and COVID-19’. For further details, please read the announcement below: Panel Discussion on ‘Can We Reimagine International Institutions? A Third World Perspective’ | July 25, 2020 We are pleased to invite

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Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Trademark Law: How Freely Can Imagination Run?

/ By / Trademark

We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Bhavya Solanki and Medha Bhatt, discussing the applicability of the fair use provisions of trademark law to unauthorised use of trademarks in the virtual world. Bhavya and Medha are 2nd year students at Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU), Mumbai.     Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Trademark Law: How Freely Can Imagination Run? Bhavya Solanki & Medha Bhatt Technologies like Virtual Reality (‘VR’) and Augmented reality (‘AR’) are witnessing a

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Does JioMeet’s GUI Infringe Copyright in Zoom’s Software?

/ By / Copyright

Recently, Reliance Jio launched its video-conferencing application called ‘JioMeet’. The launch, however, has been muddled with controversy as the graphical user interface (‘GUI’) of the application is considerably similar to its competitor ‘Zoom’. In a recent statement, Zoom has mentioned that it is discussing with its legal team and is contemplating a possible suit for such copying of its interface. If the dispute does end up reaching the courts, it would be India’s first major litigation addressing the issue of

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