Drug price control order (DPCO) 2013 : What’s in store?

/ By / Drug Regulation

Last week on Wednesday, May 15 the department of pharmaceuticals issued the new Drug price control order 2013 (can be accessed here) which will alter price regulation dynamics and substantially increase the number of medicines covered by price cap umbrella. The earlier DPCO order regulated prices of only 74 bulk drugs whereas the current DPCO order will regulate prices of as many as 348 medicines. The DPCO 2013 will come into effect somewhere around July 1st i.e. 45 days from […]

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Micolube: Dual Protection and the Doctrine of Election

/ By / Trademark

On 15th May, 2013 a three judge bench of the Delhi High Court delivered its decision on the Micolube case that was reserved to it by a single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court in 2011. The plaintiffs in the case were registered owners of  designs who claimed that the defendants were infringing on their registered designs,  and sought the remedies of suing for infringement, even when the defendant is a registrant as well as that of passing off against the

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SpicyIP Tidbit: IPXI releases latest edition of its Rulebook.

/ By / Competition Law

The IPXI (Intellectual Property Exchange International) is the world’s first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property rights. My previous post on this can be found here.  The IPXI, last week, released the Rulebook that is to govern its first offerings.  This Rulebook is the product of interactions among  the various members of the IPXI which includes many IP owners as well. This Rulebook, which includes the additions recommended by the IPXI Rules Committee,(which is composed of the representatives

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The Times Publishing House threatens to sue our blogger for alleged defamation – we ain’t going down without a fight!

/ By / Others

Aparajita Lath – SpicyIP Blogger Take a good hard look at the photograph on the right. It’s a photograph of one of our youngest bloggers – Aparajita Lath, an innocent 22 year old gifted law student at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), one of the top law schools in India. Do you think this girl is capable of hurting anybody much less defame one of the largest media companies in India? Well, apparently there is somebody either at

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Microsoft v. Motorola: A FRAND-ly formula for fixing royalties?

/ By / Uncategorized

The ‘FRAND wars’ hit India earlier this March with Swedish based Ericsson suing Mircomax Informatics Ltd. for alleged infringement of their standard essential patents (SEPs) relating wireless technology standards. As an interim arrangement, Micromax agreed to pay Ericsson 1.25% to 2% on the sale price as royalty to Ericsson, an incredibly high rate as Prashant pointed out earlier over here. The fixing of FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) royalty rate has been most contentious in the telecom industry with numerous lawsuits

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Guest Post: A rejoinder from the IPKat

/ By / Uncategorized

Continuing with our debate, between Darren Smyth of IPKat fame and Siva Thambisetty, on the merits of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Novartis case, we have for our readers a rejoinder from Darren in response to Siva’s last post on this issue. The two previous posts on this issue can be accessed over here and here.  A Rejoinder from the IPKat,  by Darren Smyth  I was very interested to read the thoughts of Siva Thambisetty. However, with the greatest

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WIPS (Worldwide Intellectual Property Service) – IPR Solution experts

/ By / Uncategorized

SpicyIP is happy to bring to our readers news of a wonderful set of search and analytics tool by Worldwide Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) for those involved in the IP field. Please see as below: WIPS (Worldwide Intellectual Property Service) – IP Solution experts Description: WIPS, as a leader in the intellectual property fields, is endeavoring to provide various solutions for which clients may have difficulty in IP related issues. WIPS is Korea’s first company to offer online worldwide patent

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The curious case of medical method patent: Can doctors patent surgical procedures?

/ By / Uncategorized

Around a month ago, the Times of India reported that a Satara-based Gynaecologist Dr.R. S.Katkar had received a patent for microsurgical recanalisation operation. This story made us do a double take! Did the patent office err and grant a medical method patent or was it a case of misreporting by the Times of India? Well, we did a little bit of research on this and turns out that the patent application had just been published in the patent office journal

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Guest Post: A response to the IPKat’s "despair" by Siva Thambisetty

/ By / Uncategorized

Image from here It appears that Darren’s guest post has got the ball rolling with not only a healthy debate in the comments section to his post but also in the form of this guest post in response by Siva Thambisetty. Siva is an alumna of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the University of Oxford. She is currently a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she teaches and writes on patent

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Javed Akhtar nominated for CISAC Vice-Presidency

/ By / Copyright

CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation that works for increased recognition and protection of the rights of creators.  The Board of Directors of CISAC have unanimously recommended  French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre and Indian scriptwriter, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar as their candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of CISAC. These recommendations have been made by the Board of Directors to the General Assembly which is scheduled to meet in

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