SpicyIP Tidbit Update: Thai Compulsory Licensing issuance of Antiretroviral

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This is regarding the recent post( here) on the Thai Government’s plans to issue a compulsory licence for an anti-retroviral drug Efaverenz, as reported by IP Komodo. The post has been updated to reflect that the first compulsory licence was issued in 2006, which expired in 2011. Furthermore, the drug was be manufactured by the Government Pharma Organisation(GPO) on a five-year compulsory license. In fact, the Thai govt. imported generic Efaverenz from Ranbaxy as an interim measure in 2007 until […]

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Copyright Hiccup: Madras High Court allows release of Thillu Mullu 2

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Image from here First Bollywood, now Kollywood scriptwriters have started making use of the copyright act to restrain release of remakes based on claims of authorship of original scripts. Whether these claims turn out to be true is still to be seen but most claims have been unsuccessful at the interim injunction stage thereby failing to prevent release of the films (e.g. Bombay Talkies, Nautanki Saala, Chashme Budoor).  In Kollywood, Thillu Mullu-2, starring Shiva, Prakash Raj, Santhanam and Isha Talwar,

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SpicyIP Weekly Review(June 3rd Week)

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The week started off with Sai Vinod bringing us up to speed with trademark infringement threats against movie producers lately. Recently, two movies- ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ and ‘Ankur Arora Murder case’ were on the receiving end for trademark infringement on account of allegedly objectionable references to Rooh Afza(a fruit squash) and a certain biscuit brand respectively. In the former case, Justice Manmohan Singh passed an order restraining the home video release of the movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (the

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Indian start-up complains about unfair Google Ad-Sense contracts

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For several years now the Google Empire has been built on the fabulous success of its Ad-Sense program, which places relevant advertisements during the search results on the Google search engine and also on third-party websites. Google usually charges the advertiser only when a user clicks on the advertisement. Inevitably, as is always the case with Google, the program faced more than its share of legal challenges, especially multiple lawsuits for the infringement of trademarks. Recently, Kashyap a school-friend of

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DIPP issues notification proposing an across the board hike in patent filing fees

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In a recent notification issued by the DIPP, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry proposes to raise the fee levied for filing and prosecuting patents before the Indian patent office.  The notification may be accessed directly here.  This gazette notification of May 6, 2013 notifies the Draft Patent Rules 2013 and it is expected that they would be tabled in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament.  Comments are due by June 21  (Long post follows). As regards the fee

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Thai Govt. plans to issue compulsory license for antiretroviral

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The Thailand Government announced plans to issue a compulsory licence for an anti-retroviral drug Efaverenz, as reported by IP Komodo (a blog covering South East Asian IP developments). Thailand has previously issued licences for other anti-cancer drugs, but this is a first for an anti-retroviral drug(used in second-line treatment for HIV-AIDS). The drug is manufactured by Merck. Plans for issuance of licence were announced  way back in 2006. In 2007 it was reported that Merck had substantially reduced prices for AIDS

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SpicyIP Events: FMC-DSIR-APTDC Workshop for Identifying the Technologies for Acquisition

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The Andhra Pradesh Technology Development & Promotion Centre (APTDC) has partnered with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research(DSIR) and Foundation for MSME Clusters (FMC) to conduct a one day workshop on Facilitating Technology Acquisition in Hyderabad on 28th June, 2013. The Workshop is set to be conducted in light of the new Patent Acquisition and Collaborative Research and Technology Development Scheme (PACE), launched by the Government of India. The scheme intends to facilitate technology acquisition by industries and especially

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Movie makers threatened for trademark dilution, Karan Johar’s movie temporarily restrained

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Image from here Times of India yesterday carried a news report of an order passed by the Delhi High Court restraining home video release of producer Karan Johar’s latest movie, ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’. The suit was filed by Hamdard National Foundation over certain ‘objectionable’ references to ‘Rooh Afza’, a traditional Unani squash made of fruits, vegetables and herb. Hamdard National Foundation, a fully funded charitable organization of Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories which manufactures the Unani beverage, holds registration for the word mark

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SpicyIP Event: IPEX – 2013, Hyderabad

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SpicyIP is happy to announce IPEX – 2013, a conference and exposition on “Building and Managing an IP Ecosystem for Business Excellence”. 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 as below. SpicyIP readers should note that mentioning SpicyIP at the time of registration will give them a 30% discount on registration fees

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The Sunitinib Saga continues: Third time’s the charm?

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The IPAB has set aside the revocation of Sunitinib patent due to procedural lapses again!!(IPAB order can be accessed here). As Sunny Deol would drawl “tariq pe tariq, tariq pe tariq…” (movie buffs you know what I’m talking about).Well Justice Prabha Sridevan also expressed a similar sentiment albeit in different way and stated that the Sunitinib litigation has been delayed endlessly owing to procedural lapses in the IPO and this is unfair to both the patentee and the challenger and also

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