Guest Post: Cricket, Death and a Trademark!

/ By / Privacy, Trademark

As many of our readers would have recently noticed, the cricketing world and social media in general was abuzz with tributes after the recent unfortunate demise of Australian cricketer Philip Hughes. The phrase “63 not out” was used in many of these tributes, both on social media as well as on various memorabilia. In response to this, the Australian Cricket Board has recently decided to trademark the phrase “63 not out”. As his first entry to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Atharva Sontakke, a […]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (21st December- 3rd January, 2015)

/ By / Others

The SpicyIP Highlights of the last two weeks: Prashant Reddy’s Guest Post on the curious case of IPRS, Indian Railways and Rabindrasangeet, where he discusses IPRS’ demand of hefty royalty amounts from the Indian Railways for playing Rabindrasangeet and other classic Bollywood melodies on trains. On New Years’ Eve, Thomas posted a hard hitting IP development on the copyright-design interface: the interpretation of S.15(2) of the Copyright Act in Mukul Goyal v. Union of India. The vires of S.15(2) was

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Guest Post: IPRS, Indian Railways, & Rabindrasangeet (!)

/ By / Copyright

Prashant Reddy, our most prolific blogger till date, takes a step out of blogging retirement to bring us this timely guest post on a curious development at the Indian Railways. It appears that IPRS, the copyright collecting society (or perhaps more appropriately, “company”, as they’ve also claimed), is trying to collect hefty royalty amounts from Indian Railways for playing Tagore’s music and other classic Bollywood melodies – the problem being that much of this is already in the public domain! This isn’t

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Call for Papers: Journal of Intellectual Property Law (JIPL), Institute of Law, Nirma University

/ By / Publication

We are glad to bring to your attention the call for papers for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law published by the Institute of Law, Nirma University. Please find the call below.  The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat hereby invites articles / research papers, case studies, and book reviews on the themes of Intellectual Property Rights for publication in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law.  The Journal of Intellectual Property Law is a

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New year wishes: Let’s all contribute towards beautifying the IP landscape

/ By / Innovation, Others

The SpicyIP team would like to wish all our readers a very happy and prosperous new year!! As we look back on the year that was, the blog has seen a very spicy year! From welcoming in a terrific new bunch to the team, to hearing words of praise for the blog from Amartya Sen, to finding SpicyIP being cited by major newspaper across the world and even (at least) one news channel! And of course – 2015 will be the year

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Delhi High Court to Test the Vires of S.15(2) of the Copyright Act: Mukul Goyal v. UoI

/ By / Design

Before the year ends, we thought it fit to bring you a hard hitting IP development that will have significant ramifications for the future of the copyright design interface. The highly controversial S.15(2) of the Indian Copyright Act has come under the juridical scanner of the Delhi High court in Mukul Goyal v. Union of India and Ors. (W.P. 8356 of 2014). Anand and Anand in a commendable effort is representing the petitioner who is raising a constitutional challenge under

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Guest Post: Innovation in the time of SEPs & FRAND licensing

/ By / Innovation, Patent

As his first entry to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Kartik Chawla brings us an interesting post looking at the smartphone patent wars from an innovation perspective. He says a disruption in the smartphone sector may help overcome some of the issues that are cropping up with all the SEP and non-SEP related licensing trouble. Kartik is a 3rd year student from Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad and has written some guest posts for us earlier here. [Readers interested in finding out more

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Guest Post: Seeking Clearance under Section 39 of the Patents Act? Think Again!

/ By / Patent

With his 2nd submission to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Aabhas Kshetarpal brings us a very interesting post looking at a recent decision of the Delhi High Court on the interpretation of section 39 of the Patents Act. He points out that the decision means that applicants filing a PCT application by way of a section 39 clearance may inadvertently delay their international filing date. He then goes on to suggest that the Court’s interpretation of the section may be incongruent with the

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Guest Post: Google Books in the Clear: The Appeal Process a Mere Formality?

/ By / Copyright

We’re happy to bring you the 1st entry selected for our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series! Aabhas Kshetarpal is a 4th year student at NLU, Jodhpur. In this post, he looks at the current status of the ongoing Google Books Library Project case and brings forth an interesting, even if possibly presumptive opinion that the bench seems to have already shown what direction they’d be taking with this case. Read on for more. [Readers interested in finding out more details about our SpicyIP

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Travelling Fellowship Award – ITechLaw [Deadline extended – 5th Jan]

/ By / Event

ITechLaw is inviting applications for their travelling fellowship award for lawyers with a minimum of three years work experience in ICT law to work with six renowned law firms in Europe. It looks like a fantastic opportunity, don’t miss the 5th January, 2015 deadline [edited]!! Here are some details about the program: “In honor of the host country of the 2015 International India Conference, the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), with the assistance and support of sponsoring law firms, will

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