SpicyIP Events: Roundup and Calendar

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This is by way of a quick reminder to let you know of the bunch of IP-related events you can be attending across India over the next few weeks, wherever you are — October 2010 If you’re in Chennai or Kolkata later this month, you may want to drop by the INTA seminar on trademark strategies, details of which you can read here. The Chennai seminar takes place on October 29, with a team of speakers guaranteed to stir up […]

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Intellectual Property Conclave 2010 by CCH India and Fidus Law Chambers

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CCH India is organizing a one-day Intellectual Property Conclave in collaboration with Fidus Law Chambers on November 12, 2010 in Mumbai. It is for the first time that an IP event has been visualised that is entirely focused on the industry and highlights four disparate but hot IP issues to which the statutory and legislative domain often has no answers. IPC 2010 is a great platform in the Indian region where leading international IP practitioners business leaders, IP experts and

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One click patent redux: Canadian Federal Court determines Amazons ‘one click’ method is patentable

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After spending a decade+ battle at the Canadian patent office and a patent review panel, the  Canadian Federal Court has overturned a patent commissioner’s ruling that Amazon.com could not patent its “one-click” order system designed for online shopping.Amazon.com had filed the patent application under consideration for a “Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communication network” in September 1998. Justice Michael Phelan of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that: [T]he question is whether a “business method” is patentable

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Roche-Natco @ Delhi HC- Natco continues arguments

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Yes, like yourselves, we were missing the Roche-Natco matter too, which accounts for today’s post, where we update you on the latest on what’s been happening at the Delhi High Court in the case. For those of you who are wondering what this is all about, I’d urge you to read our previous posts on the issue here, here and here. By way of a quick recap, Swiss-based drugs multinational F Hoffman La Roche is fighting Natco Pharma, and specifically,

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WORKSHOP ON INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND IP POLICY

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  After the Bayh Dole Conference last year and the provocative discussions that it engendered, the NUJS IP Chair is collaborating this year with the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. A two-day Indo-European dialogue on “Innovation, Creativity and IP Policy”, will be held at NUJS on 19th and 20th November, 2010. The Conference is sponsored by Microsoft India (chief sponsor), K&S Partners and Altacit Global. The Workshop has lined up interesting speakers to take on

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Upcoming CBD meet: Sufficient to narrow the gap?

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It’s been nearly 2 decades since the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was adopted in the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and this year, which also happens to be the International Year of Biodiversity, marks the 10th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP). It will take place from 18th – 29th October, 2010 at Nagoya, Japan. The item of primary importance on the agenda at COP 10 is that of creating international protocol on Access and Benefit

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‘Knock Out’ release on schedule despite copyright infringement suit

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The IBN Live website reports that the stay on the release of the film Knock Out (starring Sanjay Dutt and Irrfan Khan) has been reversed by the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court. The petitioner, 20th Century Fox claimed copyright infringement on the ground that the the film Knock Out, produced by Sohail Maklai is a direct copy of the film Phone Booth, whose copyright lies with 20th Century Fox after the original screenplay writer Larry Cohen entered into

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Is Google’s Caching Copyright Infringement?

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In this post, I will focus on the issue of ‘caching’ and whether it constitutes copyright infringement or not. WHAT IS CACHING? ‘Caching’ is a technical process which essentially involves the storage of data so that future requests for that particular data can be served faster. In relation to Google, this can be illustrated as follows: The primary objective of Google is to crawl as many web pages as possible and serve them as results to a user when certain

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SpicyIP Jobs: Patent Coordinator for Pharma Company

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A reputed Pharmaceutical MNC is looking to hire Patent Coordinators for it’s Gobal Patent Organsation. Qualifications Atleast three years of relevant experience of working independently, preferably in a law firm or MNC and good knowledge of common procedures in connection with handling incoming and outgoing case file correspondences. Responsibilites  As a Patent Coordinator the candidate will be responsible for: (i) Independently handling all formal matters related to Indian patent filing, patent prosecution, and communications with the Indian Patent Office. (ii) Independently

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Clarification on Section 107A(b)

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In my posts on Section 107A(b), I had given the example of compulsory license under Section 84 of the Patents Act to further my interpretation of the provision. Subsequent to Prashant’s  brilliant question, I realized my example was not entirely accurate, although that doesn’t take away from the logic of the interpretation I seek to explore. That said, the posts containing the example have not been modified, so that the train of logic followed and the example are there for

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