“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato On this festive occasion, let us embrace the light and bask in its lustrous luminescence! Happy Diwali to all our readers! Speaking of light, tis’ time to hark back to our transparency campaign, a large part of our raison d’etre. From 2007 when we first shot off a protest petition (signed by many of you) to […]
The week saw the official unveiling of the new SpicyIP. SpicyIP 2.0 is now a website purely dedicated to covering the latest developments in the Indian intellectual property arena and all things relevant. Apart from the revamped look, we have a host of new features such as IP Polls, IP Petitions, IP Jobs and IP Events. We also have a Resource page, which is currently in the works, a special feedback and anonymous tip-off page available here. We would like to thank our ever-so-supportive and
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For the readers interested in exploring the various nooks and crannies of cloud computing and its legal repercussions, the Law and Technology Society of the premier law school of India, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, brings once again Consilience-2013-14, its annual flagship Conference completely organized by the NLSIU students. Since its inception, Consilience has sought to venture into the very depths of its chosen theme, clarify the different ambiguities and issues involved therein and submit a recommendatory report
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Right on the heels of our new website’s launch, we’re happy to also announce our 2nd SpicyIP Fellowship! Anubha, Aparajita and Gopika – our first crop of SpicyIP Fellows whom we’ve been very happy with – have all been invited to stay on to be part of our team after their fellowship period expires in February. [Edit: Click here to see what they have to say about their experience so far!] As was the case last year, we’re on the lookout for
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In an Order dated the 25th of October, 2013 the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), through its Technical Member S. Ravi allowed an appeal against the order of Deputy Registrar M.C. Gupta refusing an opposition filed by Sony Corporation against trademark application No. 1255896 filed by Kolkata based textile firm, AB Textiles, for the label that is pictured on the left. The label contains the words ABT and Sony on a blue background. (The order can be accessed over here)
An interesting case involving diplomatic immunity and copyright infringement was heard by the Delhi High Court recently. The parties were the Indian Heritage Society and another (plaintiffs) , represented by Mr. Pravin Anand and Ms. Tanvi Misra and Meher Malhotra (defendant), represented by Mr. Vikram Dogra, Mr. Samrat Nigam and Ms. Ankita Mahajan. The facts were that an Annual Day Event was organised by the plaintiffs in February, 2011. The 2nd defendant, daughter of the Ambassador of Ecuador in India,
In an earlier email message to the SpicyIP group of subscribers around two weeks ago (as below), I’d reflected on the delay accompanying the processing of India’s second CL application filed by BDR Pharma against Dasatinb, an anticancer drug patented by BMS. And contrasted that delay with the speed with which India’s first CL application dealing with Nexavar had been decided by the erstwhile Controller General (CG), PH Kurian. Thankfully, the matter has now been decided. In a fairly comprehensive
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Warm greetings to all our readers! We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website SpicyIP.com. It’s been eight years since Prof. Shamnad Basheer started SpicyIP as a blog dedicated to the reportage and analysis of IP laws and developments in India. We are now finally moving from Google’s blogging platform (spicyipindia.blogspot.com) to our own full fledged website – for a new look, more functionality and hopefully a spicier IP experience for our readers! Over the years our
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Recently, Mast-Jägermeister SE, manufacturers of alcohol, filed a Writ Petition before the High Court of Madras against the Tamil Nadu Police. The matter relates to the usage of the company’s registered trademark- Jägermeister in a ‘don’t drink and drive’ campaign poster by the Tamil Nadu Police (see images). As shown, the bottles of Jägermeister (with their labels) are placed next to a picture depicting a fatal accident. Jägermeister requested the TN Police to remove the signage, however, no action was taken. Hence
As LLM application deadlines approach, I thought it could be helpful for us to put out some guidelines or factors that applicants may want to consider while going through the tedious process of application and selection of universities – especially for those who are looking specifically at IP focused LLMs. (For those interested in a general LLM guide, Livelaw has put out a detailed 4 part series here). I asked Krithika D.N. if she could write us a guest post
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