FICCI announces online certificate course on intellectual property

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  The Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property (IP) started by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has been much appreciated by the participants of the Course. The next Online Course would be conducted from January – March 2013. Registration for the same has started from 1st December 2012.  The details are: Course Duration:                             3 Months Registration Start Date:               […]

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DU Photocopy Review: The Melody of Justice

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In an earlier post, we’d highlighted how an unfortunate grammatical construct led to an order against Delhi University (DU) and Rameshwari Photocopy.  While the restraining order was directed effectively only against Rameshwari, the alleged “admissions”/”undertakings” of DU to the affect that they would not commit any infringing acts complained of by the plaintiffs in the suit were recorded in the order.  Aggrieved by this recordal, DU approached an appellate bench of the Delhi High Court consisting of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog

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Meeting on the Future of the Internet – Mired in lack of transparency

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Level of Transparency these days depicted above Why is transparency such a difficult proposition nowadays? It seems to be constantly popping up as an issue in nearly any large bureaucratic process. There are only two possible answers of course – either a belief that true democracy (which requires information as a basis for choices) is untenable as a governing mechanism, or that democracy is undesirable to those “leaders” unwilling to conduct transparent proceedings. I would lean towards the latter. For those more

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Guest Post: Beg to Differ

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We have today for our readers, a guest post by Mr. Jagdish Sagar, an independently practicing lawyer, who in my opinion is one of the leading authorities on copyright law in India. He was formerly a partner at Anand and Anand, till 2011. Prior to that he was a civil servant till  2004. During his service with the Central Government he served as the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources & Development in the earlies 1990s and was

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Legalising Tribunals: A Judicial Sell Out?

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In a watershed development, the Government of India announced that it is now considering an umbrella legislation for all tribunals. Those of you tracking this space will appreciate that tribunalisation has been one of the most contentious issues in India, with  fresh constitutional challenges filed against tribunals almost every year.  Essentially a creature of Mrs Gandhi’s anxiety to rein in the power of a fiercely independent judiciary, tribunals were set up as allegedly speedy and specialised alternatives to regular courts. As expected,

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SpicyIP Tidbit: RSC puts forward excellent US Copyright analysis; gets retracted next day

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On Nov 16th, in a little over 8 pages, Republican Study Committee (RSC) staffer Derek Khanna put forward a succinct and accurate report on US Copyright laws, its problems and some policy solutions. About 24 hours later, the RSC issued a statement saying that they were retracting the policy brief as it had been published without adequate review and failed to meet their standard for publication.  (As per wiki page, “The Republican Study Committee [RSC] is a caucus of over 170 conservative members

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Civil society sounds the war cry for affordable Herceptin – Roche’s worst nightmare comes true

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A coalition of NGOs, breast-cancer-survivors and academics have shot off a letter to the Prime Minister of India demanding measures to ensure that Herceptin, the breast cancer drug sold by Roche is made more affordable for Indian women. The letter dated 5th of November, 2012 can be foundhere and does not appear to have been picked up by the mainstream media as of yet. You can join the Facebook group over here. The letter provides the Prime Minister with details

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November Week 4)

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Another relatively quiet week in the IP world has passed us as we go deeper into holiday season. Having said that though, there have been a few very notable developments in this last week. Starting off, in what is definitely the highlight this last week, is the 5-6 hour hearing that Prof Shamnad Basheer received as an academic intervenor over a 2 day period in the much highlighted Novartis case presently before the Supreme Court. As Prashant writes, ‘His arguments (as expected)

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Bayer makes an attempt to nix NATCO’s CL for Nexavar

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Image from here Bayer Corporation, which earlier this year lost its bid to oppose NATCO’s application for a compulsory license (CL) for its Nexavar patent, is now attempting to terminate the CL on the grounds that NATCO has violated the terms and conditions of the CL by exporting its generic version of Nexavar to Pakistan and China. The Controller General’s order was very clear that NATCO was licensed to market the drug only within the territory of India.  Bayer had

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BCCI blocks Photo Agencies in India-England Test Series: International News Agencies say "It’s not Cricket!"

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(Image taken from here)Well, the cricket enthusiasts among the readers of Spicy IP are no doubt glued to the daily reports of the India-England ongoing test series, with the series poised on 1-1 in a tantalizing manner. The traditionalists would undoubtedly swear by the attractions of a well-crafted test match news report (with stalwarts like Neville Cardus having created not a few rare gems in that field). However, it is not the fate of the entire global populace to savour

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