Tidbit: Job Opportunity at International Trademark Association

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We’d like to remind our readers of this job opportunity at INTA. Please note, the deadline to apply is Today – April 22nd, 2015. Read on for more: An exciting opportunity has opened up at the International Trademark Association (INTA). The role is for an India Consultant, to be based out of New Delhi.  The Consultant is expected to provide consultancy services to INTA; specifically assist in strengthening INTA’s presence in the country by supporting policy efforts throughout the region; growing […]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 12 – April 19, 2015)

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This week on SpicyIP, our Highlight of the Week is Spadika’s post on a Brazillian team finally seeking permission to milk the benefits of the Ongole Bull, a species that is indigenous to Andhra Pradesh. She notes that while S. 3 of the Biological Diversity Act mandates that an approval from the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) be taken before ‘foreigners’ obtain any biological resources, including animals and their by-products, or any knowledge associated with the same for research or commercial

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Brazilians (Finally) Seek Permission to Milk the Benefits of the Ongole Bull

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The Times of India reports that a Brazilian team has made an application to the National Biodiversity Authority to obtain 5,000 units of the germplasm of the Ongole Bull, a species of cattle indigenous to Andhra Pradesh. The Ongole Bull, which takes its name from the region where its mainly bred (the Ongole Taluka in southern Andhra Pradesh) is a large species of cattle which serves well in draught prone areas. This makes it naturally popular in AP, where it

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SpicyIP tidbit: IPL receives notice from IPRS, pays up for playing music at the Opening ceremony

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The Indian Premier League is back in full swing, and with its share of controversies, no less! The opening ceremony act received a lot of flak for its dismal Bollywood performances to the tunes regular Bollywood songs. While mass criticism centered around the ‘thanda’ performances, big fires were doused behind the scenes. According to reports, the organisers had failed to get the necessary licence from IPRS for using music for the performances beforehand. The licence to use music at matches

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Network Neutrality Toolkit

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Network Neutrality is, simply put, one of the bulwarks of the existence of the internet as we know it. It is one of the major reasons for the freedom that the internet provides, the freedom that has revolutionised the world and ushered in the ‘Information Era’. We have covered this issue in our previous posts here and here. This post essentially intends to create a toolkit/primer for Network Neutrality, for anyone who wishes to understand the concept better. For that

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Job Opportunity at International Trademark Association

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An exciting opportunity has opened up at the International Trademark Association (INTA). The role is for an India Consultant, to be based out of New Delhi.  The Consultant is expected to provide consultancy services to INTA; specifically assist in strengthening INTA’s presence in the country by supporting policy efforts throughout the region; growing membership; providing educational and networking opportunities to the local trademark community; and supporting the Association’s global efforts. The Consultant will report to Chief Policy Officer, Director of

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 5 –12, 2015)

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Although the 5th-12th of this month has been a bit of a slow week, we’ve had two rather interesting posts written by Mathews and Aparajita. Mathews had written on the need to consider non patent models for incentivizing drug discoveries, and discussed the various examples of newly emerging models that appear to present rather interesting opportunities. He first outlines the recently instituted Project Marilyn that launched a campaign to develop a crowd funded patent-free anti cancer drug – 9-deoxysibiromycin or 9DS. He then the

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After 66A, Writ to Decriminalize Defamation before Supreme Court

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  In what seems like a great month for freedom of speech in India, Subramanian Swamy filed a Writ Petition before the Supreme Court asking the court to decriminalize defamation in India (here). This news was brought to us by Sai Vinod, a former blogger and an integral part of the SpicyIP team. After the Times Publishing House issued a defamation notice to me, threatening criminal action, I wrote a post on SpicyIP analyzing whether Sections 499/500 of the IPC

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (March 29 – April 4, 2015)

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We covered a wonderfully wide variety of concepts over this past week – a dual takedown of PPL and IPRS, Net Neutrality, Trade Secrets, Copyright in light of parodies, more comments on the Draft IPR Policy, Open Source Software, FRAND Litigation, a new centre for IP and Plagiarism. However, the highlight of the week goes to Rupali’s powerful two-part post analyzing Shreya Singhal. In the first part, she briefly discusses the findings in relation to Section 66A and 69A of

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Policy innovation and improvisation on pharmaceutical drug discovery

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As I sit down to pen this post, I am well aware of the complex, heavily debated policy dimensions on incentivizing innovations in the pharmaceutical industry. There is no one absolute ‘right’ answer to the various dilemmas posed by this discussion. In fact, there are several answers. Each one is right in its own way. As I see it, the only way out is to ‘try out’ which, of course, entails the ability to ‘embrace’ risks. As Paulo Coelho said,

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