Guest Post: Economic sanctions and IPRs: Condition of anonymity or a smooth ride?

/ By / Copyright, Others, Patent

We’re happy to bring to our readers a very interesting guest post by Punam Kadam, where, taking off from the example of the recent cybervandalism caused sanctions on North Korea, she examines what happens to IPRs when US places economic sanctions on a country. Punam is a research professional who has worked in Pharma and Agrochemicals Industry and currently working as a Patent Associate at Inttl Advocare. The views expressed are her personal views and not that of her employers.” Economic sanctions […]

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The Entecavir mystery: Natco and BMS enter into a hush-hush patent settlement in India

/ By / Patent

In a development with significant ramifications, Natco and Bristol Meyers Squibb entered into a settlement over a patent dispute involving Entecavir (Baraclude) a drug used in the treatment of hepatitis B infections. The patent which was disputed by NATCO pharma and settled at IPAB   relates to a pharmaceutical composition for once a day oral administration comprising upto 1% of Entecavir. Entecavir US Patent status: BMS and Teva Entecavir is protected by two patents in the US viz: US5206244– product patent

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Guest Post: Are Copyrights in Logos considered Trademarks for the Purpose of Taxation?

/ By / Copyright, Overlaps in IP, Trademark

In her 2nd post for our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Arundathi Venkataraman brings us an interesting post that seeks to draw attention to a recent decision of the Madras High Court in which several interesting arguments pertaining to service tax, copyright and trademark were made. Arundathi is a 4th year student at NLU, Jodhpur. Her previous post is available here: GI for Yoga? (De)Merits and Consequences. [The deadline for submission of entries for our Fellowship application has now passed. We shall be going

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Delhi HC on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001

/ By / Plant Variety Protection

[*Long Post] The Delhi HC, in its recent judgment in Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Co and Anr v. Union of India and Anr, interpreted S. 15(3)(a) of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 (“Act”). This fairly well-written, coherent judgment, which was delivered by Justice Vibhu Bakhru, deals with certain interesting dimensions. As we haven’t dealt with many case laws pertaining to the Act especially involving technical aspects, I intend to deal with this judgment at length. My intention

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Guest Post: Of Recipes and Patents

/ By / Others, Patent

Due to some issues with the site, we had put a hold on our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series but we’re back now and will get through the remaining ones as quickly as possible. Kiran Mary George, a 2nd year student at ILS, Pune, brings us her third entry with this post looking into the questions of whether recipes can be patented or not. Her previous two entries included “The Smell Mark Conundrum” and “The iPhone v iFon conflict“. [The deadline for

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The Grand Masters 2015 – In-House Counsel Legal Best Practices Summit

/ By / Sponsored

We’re happy to announce the The Grand Masters 2015! Please note, it will be held in three different cities on three different dates in February. And please also note while registering – SpicyIP readers are entitled to a 30% discount! Details of the summit are below: Have you been facing challenges as an In-House Counsel? Have you been able to build and lead successfully an In-House Team? Have you been able to strike a balance with the External Counsel? Do you have

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INTA’s “India Emerged: Protecting Brands in India’s Evolving Economy” re-scheduled for February 6, 2015

/ By / Event, Sponsored

We’d like to announce a change in date for INTA’s India conference scheduled in February. Please see the details as below: Due to the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly Election on February 7, 2015, INTA’s India conference has been rescheduled for Friday, February 6, 2015. INTA is excited to present to you the conference in its updated format and this includes ·         Key Brand Owner Perspectives from various  industries leading high level discussions on hot topics including the Madrid Protocol, new

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Spicyip Tidbit: IP Office call for national IP awards 2015

/ By / Others

Our IP office has recently announced IP awards 2015 to “reward creation / innovation and commercialization of IP.”  The awards will be presented to the awardees at an event in Delhi, organized by the IP Office in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The awards are in 9 categories and carry a cash prize of 100,000/ and a citation.  The categories are in the following 9 categories: i. Top Indian Academic institution for Patents; ii. Top R & D institution/organisation for Patents; iii. Top

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Limiting royalties for SEPs to ‘claimed’ invention

/ By / Competition Law, Patent

In a decision issued by the US Federal Circuit that will have major repercussion on the evaluation models for standard essential patents (SEPs), the  court gave substantial guidelines for determining an appropriate royalty base on which a royalty figure may be applied. In VirnetX, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (No. 2013-1489), the appeals court held that the district court had wrongly instructed the jury that in determining the royalty base for calculating damages, it should not use the value of the entire

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Guest Post: Open Source Killing Machines: From Russia With Love

/ By / Innovation, Others, Overlaps in IP

We’re happy to bring our readers this fascinating post by Balaji Subramanian, a 2nd year student at Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad. He draws a connection between the Open Source movement, and the Soviet military hardware sector! This is his 4th post in the SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. His previous posts include 2 posts on improving usage of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (here and here), and this post on policy concerns on granting Trademarks to military hardware on classes outside of their

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