Over the last few months, FICCI has been becoming more visible in the IP arena. Perhaps it has something to do with the joining of Akash Taneja (ex NIPO person and noted IP expert) as Executive Director and Sheetal Chopra, as Senior Assistant Director. Their latest offering is a wonderful bimonthly newsletter capturing the latest happenings in the IP world in India. The December issue includes snippets on the Bajaj TVS patent dispute, the Novartis case, the Youtube copyright case…

Moral Rights Under Copyright Laws: A Peep Into Policy – 3

by Mrinalini Kochupillai January 13, 2008

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As promised, here’s more on the right of integrity under Copyright law. I start the discussion from a slightly dated article referred to in the first post in this series. Mira T Sundara Rajan discusses the right of integrity in her article “Moral Rights in the Public Domain: Copyright Matters in the Works of Indian National Poet C Subramania Bharati” 2001 SING. J. LEGAL STUD. 161. The article discusses the dilemma faced by the Indian government when it realized the…

SpicyIP Jobs: Research Assistance on Pharma Data for LSE Professor

by Shamnad Basheer January 11, 2008

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An exciting research assistant offer from Prof Ken Shadlen of the LSE, who is known for his excellent scholarship on the politics of IP, particularly in relation to generic companies, ARV supplies etc. He wishes to hire a research assistant who can help with collecting data on ARV drug supplies, speciality generics from India etc. If you’re interested, please write to him at [email protected]>. Please send him your resume and contact details as well.

SpicyIP Tidbits: Will India Become the New Vanguard of the Open Source Movement

by Shamnad Basheer January 11, 2008

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1. [email protected], an excellent online business journal from Wharton business school has this very interesting article on how “open source” may help make Indian software companies more competitive. SpicyIP has in several earlier posts wondered why Indian software companies never really made the transition from “services” to “products”. This article advocates that Indian software companies should gear more towards open source, as these are more “service” oriented. And this may help Indian companies gain a competitive edge. Anyway, for full…

The Bajaj-TVS Patent Dispute: India Plugging Ahead on the Patent Litigation Highway!!

by Shamnad Basheer January 11, 2008

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Just after we reported on the Bilcare litigation, there is news of more sparks flying, as the Bajaj patent dispute (concerning patented spark plugs) makes it to the Supreme Court of India. And more exciting to our pharma afficionados, threat of an imminent suit against CIPLA by Roche over an anticancer drug (as reported in the Mint). We will however report on this Roche -CIPLA duel in our next post. Exciting times ahead!! The number of patent cases seem to…

Bilcare: Patent Office Gives the Delhi High Court the Bird?

by Shamnad Basheer January 11, 2008

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Money control reports that the Controller of Patents recently upheld Bilcare’s Patent in a post grant oppn proceeding. Here is an excerpt: “The Controller of Patents pronounced its decision of dismissing the two oppositions against Bilcare‘s (patent no 197823) on Metallized Packaging Films and uphold the validity of the said patent. The judgment was pronounced after multiple hearings from Mumbai Patent office and the Assistant Controller of Patents stated :”In view of my findings as above after careful consideration of…

SpicyIP Jobs–patent posn in Infosys BPO, dubai teaching job and inhouse counsel at luxor

by Shamnad Basheer January 11, 2008

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We would request that when you are writing to the concerned people (whose emails are shown below), please mention that you are coming via SpicyIP (as a favour to us–if you think this is a valuable service that we provide). At the very least, they will know that you are upto date on IP matters 🙂 It will only do you good…..Thanks very much in advance. 1. Senior Patent Attorney and Junior Patent Attorney Required at an Infosys BPO: Ritivik…

Arogyapacha: A "Green" Approach to Pharmaceutical Innovation

by Shamnad Basheer January 8, 2008

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Happy New Year to all of you. We thank you all for your readership and for the outstanding support in all our causes last year. There will be plenty more coming in this year! What better way to start the “new” year than by focusing on the “old”. In one of my earliest posts on the blog (in 2005, when sheer boredom prompted me to dabble with a blog) I had committed to bringing you an update on a famous…

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SpicyIP Tidbits

by Aysha Shaukat January 6, 2008

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1.The International Music Score Library Project faces closure. In what could be termed as black letter for music aficionados around the world, the IMSL has been shut down after threats from music publishers. Started by a student in Canada, IMSLP was a major resource of music scores of western classical music uploaded by a global community in PDF form. Further IMSLP only collected only scores whose copyright had expired. A befitting tribute and obituary to the Project: IMSLP was a…

SpicyIP Interview

by Aysha Shaukat January 6, 2008

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It will mark the coming together of two exquisites: India, the land of Basmati and the Mysore mallige, and Switzerland, home to precision-engineered Swiss watches, are on the threshold of signing a key bilateral where significant focus rests on IPR issues, specifically Geographical Indications (GIs). In recent years, there have been many high-level visits and regular dialogue between the two governments exploring new ways and means to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment.( Economic times) Felix Ador, Chief Legal Officer…