India signs Treaty for the Visually Impaired

/ By / Copyright

On April 30th, 2014, in a big step towards facilitating access to published works by the visually impaired or print disabled, India signed the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled (MVT)“. The treaty, which which was first adopted on 23 June 2013, was also signed by the European Union, France and Greece, bringing the total number of countries that have signed to 64, out of WIPO’s 187 members. […]

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Special 301 Report: India not downgraded to Priority Foreign Country, will receive OCR though

/ By / Drug Regulation, Innovation, Patent

After a long period of intense speculation on whether India would be downgraded to the Priority Foreign Country category, the USTR decided to let India stay put in the Priority Watch List (India has consistently featured on this list since 1979). Our readers may be aware that US was rather miffed with India’s laws facilitating the manufacture of generic drugs and India’s commitment to promote access to healthcare. Big Pharma and the US Government made several public statements indicating a

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SEP – FRAND licensing: EU issues decisions in Motorola, Samsung cases, issues FAQs

/ By / Competition Law, Patent

The European Commission on April 29, 2014 issued two press releases in the competition law cases in investigations against Motorola Mobility and Samsung.  A very-very interesting list of FAQs have also been issued constituting in some sort – guidelines for licensing SEPs under FRAND terms.  I’ll spend some time on the guidelines as they have extremely important ramifications back here in India, but I would summarize the Motorola and Samsung decisions first.  After these decisions, the position of the EU

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SpicyIP Events: INTA’s 136th Annual Meeting

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A reminder to our readers about the INTA Annual Meeting coming up. Please note that online registration closes this Friday, May 2nd. View mobile version More than 8,100 attendees from over 140 countries have already registered for the 2014 Annual Meeting in Hong Kong. Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your expertise in India and the surrounding South Asian region at the first INTA Annual Meeting in Asia!See corporations attending!With just a few weeks remaining before the Annual Meeting, registrants

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Standard Corporation India Ltd. v. Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd- the copyright-design conundrum

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(This post has been co-authored with Aparajitha) Earlier this month, the Madras High Court heard the matter of Standard Corporation India Ltd. v. Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd, an appeal on an order passed in 2012 in a civil suit that dealt with copyright and design law. The respondent (plaintiff in the original civil suit) had contended that the appellant was slavishly imitating the tractors manufactured by it, thereby infringing on their copyright in the artistic work in the drawing for its tractors. The appellant

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SpicyIP Events: IT Legal Summit 2014

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Information Technology Legal Summit (ITLS) 2014, 22nd May, 2014 Vivanta by Taj – Whitefield, Bengaluru http://www.itlegalsummit.com Download Summit Agenda | Register Now! Aim of the Summit With globalization and IT Revolution there are issue that do not fall within the same spectrum of law or jurisdiction and making difficult to easily avail a consolidated expert knowledge of applicable laws at transaction level and any relevant interpretation thereto. The 2nd Annual of IT Legal Summit by Lex Witness provides a fast

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Guest Post: NETmundial – an overview

/ By / Innovation, Privacy

Kartik Chawla, who has earlier blogged for us on Network Neutrality and the TN govt’s proposed use of Open Source software, brings us a bit of coverage of the recently concluded NETmundial, the global multistakeholder meeting on the future of internet governance. As he points out in the latter half of the post, the final outcome of the meeting was somewhat of a disappointment, given the initial potential that a participative and deliberative multistakerholder model was expected to have. NETmundial

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It’s raining injunctions: Novartis granted injunctions against four other generic makers over Galvus.

/ By / Drug Regulation, Patent

It seems like Novartis is jealously safeguarding anti-diabetic drug Galvus against competition. In an interesting turn of events Novartis filed quia timet suits against against four other pharmaceutical generics: Glenmark generics, Bajaj healthcare, Cadila healthcare and Alembic pharmaceuticals over alleged patent infringement of Galvus (Vildagliptin). In the Bajaj healthcare case and Alembic pharmaceutical case the court  granted ex-parte ad-interim injunctions and observed that that plaintiff (Novartis) has made out a strong prima facie case for grant of ad-interim injunction. The balance

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Natco files pre-grant opposition to Gilead’s Sovaldi

/ By / Patent

In a move to block Gilead’s patent on Sovaldi in India, Natco has filed a pre-grant opposition to its pending application. Reuters reports that the opposition has been made on the ground that the drug is not “inventive”. Fairy tales have taught us that all magic comes at a price. Little do we realize that this lesson can apply in the real world! Sovaldi, hailed a ‘wonder drug’ with a purported cure rate of 90% for Hepatitis C and a short duration

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GIIP PG Diploma Course in IPR and Patent Management

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