FICCI announces online certificate course on IPR and pharmaceutical R&D

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Registrations are Open for the May – October 2013 session of online certificate course on IPR and pharmaceutical R&D (CCIPR) being conducted by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). The Course provides a platform to understand the working of pharmaceutical industry, its business models, research, regulatory aspects and its relevance with respect to intellectual property rights. This is first of its kind of course introduced with specific focus on the interlinking between the pharmaceutical industry and IPR. […]

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Investors protest Rise in Royalty Rates paid by Asian Subsidiaries of MNCs: The Trend continues

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Image from here Readers may remember a piece of news that I had carried in the blog few months back (see here and here) about the new relaxation in the Indian regulatory norms about the ceiling of payment that Indian branches of MNCs can make to their parent companies by way of royalties and technology transfer fees. The apprehension at that point of time was how this relaxation could be exploited by the MNCs to milk the profit out of

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The salt form jinx:Delhi HC denies interim relief to Merck

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The Delhi HC (Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw) refused to grant interim relief to Merck (plaintiff) seeking to restrain Glenmark (defendant) from launching its products Zita and Zita met. We had blogged about it here and here. The High court however kept the main petition of the US firm pending for evidence filing and other legal proceedings on July 16.The order passed on Friday can be accessed here.Following is summary of arguments presented by either side. (Long post warning!)  Image from

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Court Stays the Screeening of Ketan Mehta’s Film

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Image from here As reported here, Ketan Mehta’s attempt to convert Dashrath Manjhi’s life story into a movie has hit a road block as the screening of the film has been stayed by the Civil Court of Patna due to a suit filed by filmmaker Dhananjay Kapoor.  Dashrath Manjhi’s or the ‘mountain breaker’ is famed to have hammered through a hillock with a chisel (it took him 22 years). This endeavor was carried out by him for his beloved wife.  Reports

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Deconstructing the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Novartis-Glivec patent case

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As promised in our last post, here is a more detailed analysis of the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Novartis case rejecting the patent application for the beta-crystalline form of imatinib mesylate (known as Glivec – “claimed invention”).  But first, here are some links to the coverage of the case by some of the top blogs in the U.S. and the U.K.: Patently O which featured two posts, one by Professor Dennis Crouch and the second post on the same

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Ramesh Sippy faces setback: Bombay High Court allowed Production of Sholay in 3-D to continue

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DIRECTOR KAUN THA? KAUN THA DIRECTOR?Image from here Much like the evergreen appeal of the cult movie Sholay remains unabated despite the passage of time, so too the various contentions and litigations surrounding the rights relating to this movie refuse to die down. This latest debate has arisen in relation to the 3-D version of the movie that has been announced to be in pipeline some time back by Sasha, nephew of Ramesh Sippy. Ramesh Sippy, who had directed the

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Bombay High Court paves the way for the release of ‘Chashme Budoor’

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In a brief, well-reasoned order dated 4th April, 2013, Justice S. J. Kathawalla of the Bombay High Court refused to grant renowned playwright, director and script-writer Sai Paranjape, an interim injunction restraining the release of the movie ‘Chashme Budoor’ today. The judgment can be accessed over here.  The movie which is being released today is a remake of a movie by the same name which was released in 1981. This older version was written and directed by the Plaintiff who had

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Bombay HC rules on Zanjeer Controversy

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As previously blogged (here and here), the judgment in respect of the Arbitration Petition in the Zanjeer remake controversy was pronounced yesterday (available here). The matter was between Adai Mehra Production Pvt. Ltd. (‘petitioner’/‘AMPL’) and Sumeet and Puneet Mehra (‘respondents’).  Though one of our readers has succinctly summarized the sequence of the dispute (here) a brief perusal of the relevant background is as follows –  The petitioner entered into co-production agreement with Fly Turtle Films for the production of the

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FICCI announces online certificate course on intellectual property

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Registrations are open for Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property (IP), May – July 2013 being conducted by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Course duration:                           3 months Registration start sate:                   1st April 2013 Registration closing date:               25th April 2013 Course conducted during:          

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SpicyIP Weekly Review(March- Week 5)

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SpicyIP Posts: The week started with L.Gopika informing us of a wonderful initiative by the Office of The Controller General Patents, Designs& Trade Marks providing for the establishment of joint committees consisting of members from Trademark stakeholders and some officers of the Trademark Registry. This initiative has been suggested as a mechanism to find constructive solutions for the various problems that arise with respect to trademark matters as well as to ensure better coordination between the TMR and the trademark stakeholders.  Next,

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