SpicyIP Tidbit: ‘Mad Men’ Litigation settled

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In my earlier post almost a year back, I had reported that yesteryear model Gita Hall May had sued Lionsgate, the production company of the hugely popular TV show ‘Mad Men’ in the Los Angeles Superior Court for the use of her image in the TV show’s title sequence without her consent. With Lionsgate raising First Amendment arguments, we were awaiting  the Los Angeles Superior Court ruling. However, it appears that there will be no ruling as the parties have […]

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IPAB sets aside patent office order refusing crystalline form patent of Vorapaxar

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Ever filed a patent application and have a rejection issued without any explanations? With the recent IPAB order, hopefully we won’t be having more of that anymore. In this case the patentee/appellant (Plough Schering now Merck) had filed a patent application claiming a particular crystalline form of a thrombin receptor antagonist, Vorapaxar. In 2009, the patent office passed an order rejecting the patent application under Section 15 citing lack of inventive step and lack of proof regarding therapeutic efficacy of the

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National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning- India’s Contribution to the Open Education Movement

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The National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (“NPTEL”) is an initiative led by seven IIT’s and IISc, and funded by the Government of India. The website provides access to web and video-based courses in Engineering, Science and Humanities, taught by the professors of these eminent universities. There are currently more than 1,000 courses being offered on the website. They have recently introduced several new courses on Polymer Chemistry, Infrastructure Finance, Money and Banking, and several other subjects. The courses offered by NPTEL

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Applications for the 2014 – 15 LAMP Fellowship are now open

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Legislative Assistant to Members of Parliament Fellowship 2014 – 15   PRS is offering an exciting fellowship, please read the announcement below for more details: Last for submitting applications: February 20, 1014.  Cut off age for the fellowship : 26 years (i.e. born on or before January 1, 1987). About the Fellowship: The Legislative Assistants to Members of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship places one legislative assistant to work with one MP for a period of 11 months. The Fellowship exposes LAMP Fellows to the

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GIPC IP Index: India ranked last

/ By / Copyright, Data Exclusivity, Others, Patent

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Centre recently released the latest ‘International IP Index’. As per this report, India has been placed last in terms of protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property practices out of 25 countries. India scored only 6.95 points out of 30. US ranked the highest, scoring 28.5 on 30. Even in the previous GIPC Index, India was ranked last. However, the findings of this report need to be examined. As Swaraj pointed out (here), even

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Announcing the SpicyIP Fellows for 2014 – 2015!

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With nearly 70 entries over the course of 6 weeks, from 14 different law schools, we’ve had a terrific response to our call for applications to the 2nd Annual SpicyIP Fellowship! Of all the submitted entries, 24 entries made it as guest posts to our blog. We were very pleased to note the marked increase in participation as compared to last year when we received about 40 submissions of which we published 18. The criteria for selection included topic choice, research,

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Event: Pharma IPR Conference, February 2014

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Pharma IPR is a very targeted conference focusing on patent related matters for Pharma and Biopharma Industry across the globe.  The date and venue for the conference is: 26 to 28 February, 2014 at Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport, Mumbai, India. Website: www.pharmaipr-india.com Please click here for more details about the conference. The theme of the conference is ‘US Patent Law in 2013: Winds of Change’. As the title suggests, the conference aims at highlighting and discussing important US Patent rulings

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No IPR protection for modern yoga techniques

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Early this month, the Delhi High Court in the case of Institute for Inner Studies v. Charlotte Anderson discussed the important issues of whether yoga asanas or Pranic Healing are entitled to copyright or trademark protection.  The plaintiffs argued that the defendants’ use of the yoga techniques, practices and other teachings invented by the Master Choa Kok Sui (the Master)  without the prior authorization of the plaintiffs was not permissible as firstly, it amounted to an infringement of the copyright

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Guest Post: Copyright Aspects in Open World Gaming

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In his fourth submission to our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series, Thomas Vallianeth brings us an interesting post discussing the copyright issues that arise in Open World Gaming – the phenomenon of immersive gaming with dynamic environments and character development. With this submission, we have concluded our 2nd annual SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series and we thank everyone who has participated in it! We should be announcing our new SpicyIP fellows later tonight! Copyright Aspects in Open World Gaming Video game enthusiasts might

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Moving past some starting trouble

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As we get more cozy with our new website, we’ve recently discovered that there were still a few issues with parts of it. It appears that though the website has been getting entries in both the SpicyIP Jobs section, as well as the Anonymous Tips section – the notifications haven’t been coming to us! We’re working on getting this fixed and will be manually checking for updates till then. Apologies to everyone who has tried sending us an anonymous tip

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