Lack of Transparency in Domestic Policies harming the Pharmaceutical Sector? The Industry speaks out

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(Image taken from here) It will be quite superfluous to reiterate to the readers the strong vantage position that the Indian pharmaceutical industry holds at present in the global arena, as the second largest exporter of bulk drugs and largest formulation exporter in the world. Yet all may not be well insofar as the domestic growth of the industry is concerned, with all the flak it has been taking by unfavorable policy decisions by the Indian government, especially with respect […]

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Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management Inaugurated by Government

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The union Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma inaugurated the National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (NIIPM) building at Nagpur on the 21st of July, 2012 and named it the “Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management” . The primary objective appears to be to train professionals to deal with the recent surge in patent applications in India. There was also an announcement of the decision to establish the India Intellectual Property Foundation, which the Department of Industrial Policy

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The Basmati Controversy rears Head across the Indo-Pak Borders

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(Image taken from here) The followers of the Basmati controversy (for our earlier posts, see here) may have been under the impression that the matter had been put to rest back in 2008 when the Indian Parliament had authorized the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to have ownership rights for the purpose of registering Basmati rice grown in the state of Punjab. However, matters have not yet come to a satisfactory conclusion, if reports from across

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Managing IP names Justice Prabha Sridevan in its list of 50 most influential people in the IP world

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Photo courtesy: MIP Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) has announced its annual list of the fifty most influential people in the IP world. Past editions of this list have featured former Controller General P.H. Kurian, Justice Ravinder Bhat of the Delhi High Court, Javed Akhtar & SpicyIP. The only Indian to feature in this year’s list of 50 personalities from around the world is Justice Prabha Sridevan, Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB). In pertinent part MIP notes her

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‘Shaadi.com’ introduces spicy new twist to existing trademark battle involving Google, ‘Bharat-Matrimony’ etc.

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Close on the heels of the Colgate case, where a Delhi Court issued summons to the top brass of Colgate and a Registrar from the trademarks registry for allegedly forging a trademark certificate, we have been informed of a similar controversy brewing before the High Court of Madras in an existing case where Consim India Ltd. had sued Google and other competing matrimonial websites such as People’s Interactive Pvt. Ltd. (Shaadi.com), Times Business Solutions Ltd. and Jeevan Sathi Internet Services

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India 64th in Global Innovation Index

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India dropped a couple of places from its last year’s ranking of 62 to rank 64 this year on the Global Innovation Index (GII) which is prepared by INSEAD and WIPO. India’s rank has consistently dropped over the years – 62nd in 2011, 56th in 2010 and 41st in 2009.   Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore once again took the top 3 places, while the Republic of Moldova was the top Lower Middle Income country at 50. China, which topped the Lower Middle group

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Fair Dealing – Circulating Extracts to Students and Song Previews

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One of the issues that often comes up when trying to explain fair dealing rights to others is the extent to which such a right extends. There are a few recent decisions of the Candian Supreme Court that are significant in this light, since they interpret the fair dealing defence in some depth – a defence which is reflected in almost identical terms in the Indian Copyright Act.  There are two cases that pertinent to this post as explained in

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SpicyIP Announcements: Call for Papers – National Law School of India University

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  The National Law School of India Review is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 25(1). The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship law journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. The NLSIR is a bi-annual, student edited, peer-reviewed law journal providing incisive legal scholarship on issues that are at the forefront of contemporary legal discourse. Over the last 20 years, the NLSIR has regularly featured articles authored by judges of

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Yet another problematic acronym – the IPAA

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ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, COICA, even TPP… and now IPAA. And that is without considering the various bilateral treaty negotiations (CETA being the newest one to hit the headlines). If there were points in life for trying to maximise IP regimes, it seems certain Hollywood lobbyists (and others) would be getting top scores. (For fun, try to read that top line out loud as fast as you can) While the EU is trying to push ACTA provisions in the backdoor (after rejecting it in

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WIPO: Third party submissions in the PATENTSCOPE search system

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In what would probably be music to the ears of the Indian generic industry, WIPO under the PCT system now allows for third party submissions to be made for a published PCT application, similar to our pre-grant opposition system.     Because the PCT system follows strict time schedules for sending in submissions, it is suggested that those who may be interested in making such submissions should monitor the WIPO database regularly to identify applications of interest as early as

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