SpicyIP Event: Nominations Declared For IP Awards – Premier IPR Conclave 2014, Mumbai

/ By / Event, Sponsored

We’re happy to bring you news of the 3rd Annual Legal Era IPR Conclave & Awards on “IPR: Global Innovation and Growth”! “With an aim to strike a balance between global and economic growth and public policy LegalEra presents you with IPR Conclave & Awards 2014, a unique forum on Intellectual Property Rights which involves discussions from creative as well as business and legal perspectives.” Please see the details of the panels, speakers and nominees below:

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[SpicyIP Tidbit] Nagoya Protocol to enter into force in October

/ By / Biological Diversity

The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is all set to enter into force from October 12, 2014 pursuant to its ratification by 51 countries (ratification by 50 countries being the threshold requirement). The Nagoya Protocol, which aims to protect countries from biopiracy and misappropriation of biological resources, was agreed to in October 2010. India had signed the same in 2011 an the Union Cabinet had ratified it in 2012. (Swaraj’s post on the same is available here). The

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Guest Post: IP Services going Global

/ By / Others, Patent

We’re pleased to bring our readers an extremely interesting guest post by Manoj Pillai that brings a very important perspective that’s been missing from our blog – the direction in which the patent infantry is headed. Manoj lives in New Delhi and does IP work. He co-founded LexOrbis, an IP firm, and co-promoted Clairvolex, an IP solutions provider. IP services is going global and soon it is going to be global IP Solutions A convergence of two significant developments in the

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (7th-13th July, 2014)

/ By / Others

  SpicyIP Highlight of the Week! The SpicyIP Highlight of the Week was Thomas’ analysis of the Delhi High Court order calling for the blocking of 219 websites which were found to be infringing the exclusive broadcast rights of MSM Satellite in the recently concluded FIFA World Cup 2014. Titled ‘Ashok Kumar Goes on a Rampage’, the post concludes as “There are clear issues with this order and the potential for misuse is extremely grave.” Early on in the week,

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Bombay HC dismisses challenge to Nexavar Compulsory License

/ By / Patent

Earlier today, Justice M.S. Sanklecha of the Bombay High Court dismissed a challenge by Bayer AG to the IPAB’s decision to grant Natco a compulsory license to manufacture and distribute a generic version of Bayer’s patented kidney cancer drug, Nexavar. As per the Mint report, Justice Sanklecha stated, “We don’t see a reason to interfere with the order passed by IPAB and, therefore, the case is dismissed.” In upholding the Nexavar compulsory license, generic versions of the drug can continue to

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Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for Malayalam Wiki Library

/ By / Copyright

The New Indian Express reports that in a terrific effort, more than 1000 school students and 234 members of the public across the state of Kerala digitized, proof-read and uploaded more than 150 rare and out-of-copyright Malayalam books as part of a digitization contest organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wiki Source project by the Centre for Internet and Society, the state government run IT@School project, Swanthanthra Malayalam Computing and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi online library. While these rare books were

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Merck – Glenmark to mediate in Januvia (Sitagliptin) patent infringement case

/ By / Competition Law, Patent

As reported by the TOI, in an interesting turn of events Merck has sought a settlement with Glenmark in the Januvia (Sitagliptin) patent dispute. Earlier this month, Merck applied in court to refer the Sitagliptin patent case to the mediation centre. Since the defendant Glenmark had no objection and was agreeable to engage in mediation, Justice AK Pathak allowed Merck’s application. According to TOI reports the matter is to be listed before the Delhi high court mediation and conciliation centre

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Protection over common expressions

/ By / Trademark

Recently, the Bombay High Court came out with a brief and well-reasoned judgment on the issue of IPR protection for common expressions. The subject matter in dispute, in this case of Techlegal Solutions v. Genelia Ritesh Deshmukh & 7 Ors, is with respect to the Marathi phrase ‘Lai Bhaari’ which is not only the title of the new Ritesh Deshmukh starrer (which incidentally, appears to have  opened to more or less good reviews) but also a major part of the domain name of a

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Indian cinema inspiring Hollywood?

/ By / Copyright

Recently, IBNLive carried an interesting article on certain Hollywood movies that were potentially copies of Indian films. The article has gathered several critical comments from readers. Though I haven’t seen all the movies on the list, movie aficionados are welcome to comment. Shouvik and Swaraj have written interesting posts about movies and IP here and here. The author lists ten Hollywood movies that have been ‘inspired’/ ‘copied’ from Indian films (not only Bollywood). The article uses the words ‘copy’ and

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SpicyIP Tidbit: 50th ICANN Meeting- Discussions on gTLDs and Net Governance, But No Conclusions

/ By / Others

The 50th ICANN Meeting was held from 22nd-26th June, 2014.  The website of DiPLO Foundation has carried an informative piece outlining what happened at this High Level Government Meeting. The following is a quick summary: One of the most controversial aspects of ICANN is that it functions under the United States Department of Commerce. The legitimacy of US Government controlling a global resource such as the internet has consistently been questioned. At the meeting, representatives of China and the EU

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