Registration In A Day — Trademark’s Believe It Or Not!

/ By / Trademark

Many readers seem to have misconstrued a post that ran yesterday on the blog, about a company/website apparently claiming to be able to obtain a trademark registration in 24 hours. It was certainly NOT intended to be an advertisement for filing services, as some believe it to have been. Quite the contrary, in fact. Advocate Devanshu Jain flagged the website by way of an email to the blog team (we owe him a hat-tip for the site link and the […]

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Informing the pharma innovation debate: Harmonised IP standards and its effects

/ By / Innovation, Patent

Image from here  [Since this is a more theoretical post, in the interests of our readers, I’m stating at the outset that this piece is essentially regarding policy questions that ought to arise while considering global drug innovation policies, either patents or otherwise. For the purposes of this post, I’m keeping the “access to medicines and drug innovation policy” debate as the context, and for purposes of convenience I am broadly dividing the parties in this debate into two sides

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Want a Trademark Registration Within 24 Hours?

/ By / Trademark

If you are looking for quick TM registration, your search ends here.BMC claims that it can provide easy and cost effective TM registration within 24 hours anywhere in India. The website reads : “Our dedicated team assists you in simple, comprehensive and economical way of registering your brands and protecting it from possible infringement from competitors. BMC is voted as India’s best trademark and copyright registration consultants, equipped with experienced and dynamic team of corporate lawyers” One of the testimonials

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Major irregularities in Mr. Rahaman’s appointment to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board

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As most of our readers may already know, the constitutionality of the IPAB has been challenged on the grounds that it violates the ‘separation of powers’ between the Executive and the Judiciary. We had filed RTIs to gain an insight into the actual working of the Board and in the process we seem to have discovered major mind-boggling irregularities in the appointment process itself wherein the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) have disregarded mandatory government procedures. These irregularities

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DIPP responds to RTI queries on IPAB

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The DIPP finally replied to our RTI queries two weeks and has provided us a ton of photocopies of several documents pertaining to the IPAB’s functioning and appointments. The RTIs were filed with an intent to discover the working of the IPAB. If nothing, these replies at the very least provide a fascinating insight into the awesome bureaucratic machinery that we have inherited from the British. There is no doubt that you have to be unbelievably skilled to tackle the

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An update on the Wiley cases & ‘parallel exports’

/ By / Copyright

The ‘parallel import’ debate between publishers and civil society is slowly but steadily losing any semblance of decency and is anything but ‘civil’. Clearly the gloves are off! I’m going to refrain from lending my two bits to this debate. However I want to briefly clarify a few points regarding the so called ‘parallel exports’ issue i.e. whether it would be legal or not to export low-priced Indian books to markets like the U.S.A. and the U.K. Image from here.

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Guest Post: Made in India, faked in China

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Image take from hereSuchita Saigal, a name familiar to the Spicy IP readers, brings yet another piece of her refreshing and analytical reasoning to the fore for us, that has been presented as follows: I am of the opinion that a good post should begin with an interesting title. Hence, given the subject matter of this post, I searched for the word ‘bitter’ on Google hoping to come up with something interesting and witty, maybe a movie title, on the

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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies and Satirical Licenses

/ By / Copyright

The Social Science Research Council recently released a study titled ‘Media Piracy in Emerging Economies’, an independent, comparative study of media piracy and enforcement, with a focus on the social benefits of media piracy in different developing countries. The study is commendable for stressing on the aspects of affordability, development, access and pricing – issues that are often found wanting in the rhetoric of participants in most piracy debates, who reiterate the issues of lost sales, stricter enforcement and criminal

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Summary of 3(d) and 3(e) decisions in 2010 at the IPDTO

/ By / Patent

  In a previous post, we saw the break-up of decisions at the Indian Patents, Designs and Trademark Office (IPDTO) in the calendar year 2010.  Because of the importance of sections 3(d) and 3(e) of the Indian patent act, this post analyzes decisions related to sections 3(d) and 3(e) in the calendar year 2010.  The complete file containing the decisions analyzed can be seen here. We were not surprised to see that in 12 out of the 21 possible cases,

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SpicyIP tidbit: Designs status available online

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By way of a quick update on our last post on the newly-released Design Manual (which is still open for comments, by the way), we note that the Intellectual Property Office has made the status of Designs applications accessible online. The design applications search facility, which you can access here, is a bit like the “old” trademark search database, and requires inputting the design application number to obtain any results. If one does not have the application number handy, it

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