Guest Post: Kerala’s Endosulfan Ban – The science that never got discussed

/ By / Drug Regulation

We have for our readers today, a post by an award-winning journalist, Priyanka Pulla who has previously blogged for us over here on Ayurvedic medicines. She was recently awarded the first prize in the Science and Innovation category of the RedInk Awards for Journalism, 2013 for this story on Flock Theory and the Synchronies of Nature, published in Open, over here. One of her more recent stories in Open Magazine, available over here, was on the Endosulfan tragedy where she […]

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Patent Office publishes all ‘Statements of Working’ – Finally!

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In a very welcome development, the Patent Office, for the very first time in its history, has made available all of the “Statements of Working” filed by all patentees for the year 2012. You can view the information over here. Every year, under Section 146, the Controller General calls on patentees to submit in Form 27 information pertaining to the working of the patent. In this Form 27, the Patent Office usually asks for information on whether the patent is

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 4th Week)

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Image from here This week SpicyIP brought to its readers very interesting and informative guest posts on recent cases in the US, interesting announcements, insightful and eye opening posts on surveillance by the Central Monitoring System, URL blockings and other legal developments.  Anubha brought to our readers a very interesting piece of news akin to USA’s PRISM project happening in India. The Indian government is in the process of setting up a Central Monitoring System which will provide security agencies

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Rise of the Indian Big Brother

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In wake of the furore surrounding USA’s controversial PRISM project, attention has turned homewards with reports indicating that the Indian government is in the process of installing a nationwide surveillance and interception system. The Central Monitoring System (CMS) will provide security agencies with unfettered real-time access to all data exchanged online as well as telephonically. All individuals can be monitored, regardless of whether there is a suspicion of indulging in illegal activities. The CMS has already been tested and has

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SpicyIP Jobs: Lawyers Collective seeks to recruit lawyers for its HIV/AIDS Unit

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Lawyers Collective seeks to recruit three legal officers for the HIV/AIDS Unit in New Delhi. The job profile includes excellent opportunities for drafting, filing and making appearances at various patent controllers’ offices for pre and post grant patent oppositions. The post is open to entry level professionals as well as those having 2 to 3 years of experience in the field of pharmaceutical patent law. Preference will be given to those with a sound background in organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutical

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SpicyIP Event: IPEX – 2013, Hyderabad

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As mentioned last week, SpicyIP is happy to announce IPEX – 2013, a conference and exposition on “Building and Managing an IP Ecosystem for Business Excellence”. This promises to be an excellent event and we hope that all interested parties are able to attend it. The event is partnered by the Indian Patent Office, USPTO-GIPA as well as Nalsar University of Law. We’re also happy to announce that SpicyIP is the Media partner for this event. Please see the details

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SpicyIP Announcement: Franklin Pierce Centre for Intellectual Property Essay Competition, 2013

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Image from here SpicyIP is delighted to announce the Franklin Pierce Centre for Intellectual Property Essay Competition, 2013 conducted by the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Concord USA in association with the School of Law, Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan. The competition aims to encourage research in emerging areas in the field of intellectual property law. The competition is open to law students of Indian sub-continent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan). Co-authorship is permitted. Topics:  The

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Guest Post: U.S. Supreme Court rules on the legality of ‘Reverse-Payment’ settlements

/ By / Competition Law

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court finally delivered a long awaited opinion in the Actavis case, regarding the legality of reverse-payment settlements, where generic pharmaceutical companies accept payments to withdraw Hatch-Waxman challenges to patents owned by innovators.  We had earlier covered the oral arguments, in a guest post by George Yu, an experienced patent litigator with Schiff-Hardin LLP. You can read that post over here. Geroge was kind enough to write us another post providing us with an analysis

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The trend of blocking URL’s on ISP’s continues in India?

/ By / Others

Recently, Medianama reported that certain URL’s such as Uploaded.net, ul.to, stooorage.com and lookingglass.blog.co.uk have been blocked on certain ISP’s in India. These URL’s are those of file sharing sites, image hosting sites as well as a foreign blog on politics. These come in a long line of websites blocked on the orders of the DoT, such as the orders to ISP to block 78 URL’s in India as well as the April 2013 order to block websites such as Zegde and Care.org in

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Guest Post: The opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Myriad case

/ By / Patent

As many of you may have already heard, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a ruling on whether human genes could be patented. We had covered this issue at the stage of arguments in two guest posts, over here and here. One of our regular guest bloggers, Chris Ohly, a partner at a leading U.S. law firm has been kind enough to send us a guest post, analysing the latest opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in this case. The

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