SpicyIP Announcement: Copyright Amendments, 2012: A Fair Balance?

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SpicyIP is delighted to announce a two-day Conference on ‘The Copyright Amendments, 2012: A fair Balance?’ jointly hosted by the MHRD IP Chairs at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) and the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). The conference is supported by the NUJS law review and the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Society (IPTLS). The conference will held in Kolkata on November 27 and 28, 2012. The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 has been amended six times […]

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More puzzling questions about Sugen’s Sunitinib patent

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Image from here Going through Sugen’s Sunitinib patent file, once again, I came across a few more irregularities. I’ve blogged about the previous irregularities over here and here. Normally, post 2005, after a patent application is filed before the India patent office it is published in the patent office journal after which any person can file a pre-grant opposition under Section 25(1) until such time that the patent was granted. After the publication, the patent is referred to an Examiner

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Guest Post: Grievance Officer in the IT Rules – An Invisible Man?

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  We are pleased to bring to our readers this guest post from Sooraj Abraham, on a recent decision of the Allahabad High Court on the appointment of a grievance officer under R.3(11) of the Intermediary Guidelines. I had written about the movement to annul these Guidelines last week, and the surprising support of the Indian Music Industry for its continuance.    This post explains the issues relating to the appointment of a ‘Grievance Officer’. Looks like just another reason

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Probing further, Sugen’s title to the Sunitinib patent

/ By / Patent

Pursuant to my last post on Sugen’s title to the recently revoked Sunitinib patent, I received a comment telling me to ‘stop dragging this topic’ after I repeatedly questioned the logic of filing a blank Form 1 with the patent office. A puzzling comment since I was having a rather tame discussion with some of the other readers. Usually these kinds of comments are an indication that I’ve missed the main story.  So, I went back and checked the file

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Part II: IPCheckups & Intellectual Ventures: What are they about?

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Part I of this 2 part series covered a discussion with Matthew Rappaport, founder of IPCheckups, a patent analytics firm which is looking to uncover the super secretive patent portfolio of Intellectual Ventures, a company which may be the largest patent holder company in the world.  After speaking with Matthew, I got in touch with Nicholas Gibson, International Marketing Director of Intellectual Ventures. Specifically regarding the IPCheckups project, he gave the company’s official statement. However he was more than happy

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Part I: IPCheckups & Intellectual Ventures: What are they about?

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Intellectual Ventures (IV) is a private company that is quite often heard about in the IP community.  As per it’s wiki entry, “Intellectual Ventures is a private company notable for being one of the top-five owners of U.S. patents, as of 2011.[1] Its business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to companies. Publicly, it states that a major goal is to assist small inventors against corporations. In practice, much of their revenue comes

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Did Sugen have proper title to its Sunitinib patent?

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Image from here One of the main requirements, while filing a patent is to ensure that the patent applicant has the right to claim the invention which is the subject of the patent application. Most patent applications are usually filed by a company which has funded the research into the invention after the inventors of the patent application have assigned the right to file such an invention to the company. In fact Section 7 of the Patent Act, Rule 20

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3D Printing: Are we ready?

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For those who don’t know what 3D printing is, it is an understatement for me to say that you have probably missed out on hearing about this decade’s (dare I say century’s?) biggest innovation and invention. There are printers that print images 3D to the eye. But this is not what people normally refer to as 3D Printers. Put very simply, 3D Printers take images and virtual designs made using computer software and then produce physical 3D objects based on these

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Copyright Enforcement v. Free Speech: Where does the Indian Music Industry Stand?

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It is indeed unfortunate that India’s intermediary liability regulations are set up in a way that has created a trade-off between protection of copyright and the free flow of speech. This is not because stakeholders are using copyright laws to stifle legitimate speech in India (like in some other countries), but more from the folly of using the same regulation to control both copyright infringement and ’objectionable’ content on the internet. Compare this to the U.S. system where the DMCA

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Patent Office objects to attempts by CSIR & Co. to patent traditional knowledge and access biological resources without NBA approval

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Image from here For as long as I can remember, the Indian government and its scientists have never tired of tales of how unscrupulous foreign scientists were trying to steal ‘our’ traditional knowledge (TK) and indulge in ‘bio-piracy’ by accessing biological resources in contravention to the Biological Diversity Act. This was the argument used to first create the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) and then keep it confidential.  Well, as it turns out, the Indian Patent Office has been going

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