Guest Post: Taking a look at Online Piracy in India

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Snigdha Roy brings us her third submission to the SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. This post looks over piracy in India and also takes a brief look into some new controversial reports on the funding sources of online piracy.  Online Piracy: Gross Copyright Infringement Online piracy is on a rise and it is soon to replace physical piracy. Nowadays, one can download anything for free be it movies, music, software or books. Online piracy is a menace no doubt but one […]

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Guest Post: Madurai Malli is granted GI status

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We’re pleased to bring you yet another guest post by L. Gopika Murthy. She brings us the news of a recent GI granted on the jasmine flower, Madurai Malli.  Image from here Madurai Malli, the jasmine flower known for its fragrance and its distinctive petal colour, that originates from the district of Madurai in Tamil Nadu has been granted the GI(Geographical Indication) tag by the Registrar of Geographical Indications on January 11, 2013. This flower is the first horticultural product from

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SpicyIP Events: Workshop on Tools for Researching and Managing Intellectual Property

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  SpicyIP would like to remind its readers of Patracode’s upcoming workshop on tools for researching and managing intellectual property this Friday and Monday, at Bangalore and Pune respectively.       “Patracode, founded in 2010, is a unit of quick learners who are actively involved in catering the needs of seekers in the field Intellectual Property. They have earned good experience of handling the sophisticated clients of IP fraternity by successful representation of reputed global IP products in India.

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INTA announces Annual Calendar of Events – 2013

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SpicyIP is pleased to bring its readers the list of events that the International Trademark Association (INTA) has planned for this coming year. FEB 8-9, 2013: TRADEMARK PRACTICE TRENDS IN INDIA (MUMBAI) INTA’s third India Conference is back in a new format this year as a two day event. Day 1 is a niche program to provide participants with a background on trademark processes in India. While Day 2 offers five panel discussions on: Trademark Office Practice UpdatesCustoms Recordal of

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Guest Post: Why are Business Method Patents being granted?

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Aparajita Lath, a 3rd year student from NUJS, brings us this incisive guest post on Business Method Patents in India. Using examples, she points out that many business method patents are still being granted despite the express statutory exclusion of the same. After pointing out that many such applications are pending approval, she also discusses the policy considerations for denying the grant of such patents. This is her first submission in the SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. Business Method Patents –

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Guest Post: Bare Licensing in India

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Anubha Sinha, a 4th year student from Dr RML National Law University brings us an interesting post on the concept of Bare licensing – a topic that I believe our blog hasn’t touched upon before. She takes us through the concept in foreign jurisdictions as well as in India and concludes that bare licensing in India will lead to an abandonment of the trademark. This is her first submission in the SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series.  Quality Control in Indian trademark

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Guest post: LAVA aims for 100 Mobile App Patents

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Snigdha Roy, a 3rd year student from GNLU, brings us her second submission in our SpicyIP Fellowship applicant series. In this post, Snigdha looks beyond the press statement made by a certain Indian mobiles devices company to examine a possible trend that may be starting in this sector.  LAVA aims for 100 Mobile App Patents One of the earlier cases regarding cell technology involved Star Trek! Necessity is the mother of all innovations and innovation is the key to success. To survive the

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SpicyIP Events: Patracode announces Workshop on Tools for Researching and Managing Intellectual Property

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SpicyIP is pleased to announce Patracode’s workshop on tools for researching and managing Intellectual Property. Interested participants should note that while there is no registration fee, seats are limited, so all interested parties are requested to confirm by January 21st, 2013. More details as stated below:       “Patracode, founded in 2010, is a unit of quick learners who are actively involved in catering the needs of seekers in the field Intellectual Property. They have earned good experience of

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Samsung at the Supreme Court: Nationalising Exhaustion?

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As expected, Samsung appealed the Delhi High Court order endorsing the concept of “international exhaustion” (parallel imports) under the Indian Trademarks Act. For those not in the know, we’ve outlined the concept of exhaustion and contrasted “international” with “national” exhaustion in this article here. For ease of convenience, let me illustrate this with an example. Assume that Apple Inc owns the trademark “iPhone” in the US, EU, India and several other jurisdictions including Bangladesh. An India retailer figures out that

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Analysing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, 2013

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[*Long post] I had earlier introduced Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, 2013 (“Policy”).  I shall analyse the Policy in this post. An encouraging but incomplete policy document The Policy is quite an encouraging policy document. It marks a significant shift in the approach of the government vis-à-vis its earlier policies – Scientific Policy Resolution of 1958, Technology Policy Statement of 1983 and Science and Technology Policy of 2003. As I had stated earlier, the Policy comes in the light of

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