India finally publishes a list of International Non-proprietary Names (INNs) for pharma-trademarks!

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The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) has finally published a list of International Non-Proprietary Names (INNs) as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). The entire list can be accessed over here. Hopefully this publication will be followed up by an official notification, following which Trade Marks Trade Mark Examiners will be mandated to examine pharmaceutical trademarks for any similarities to the INNs published in the list. Any names which are identical to those on the […]

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SpicyIP Event: India IP & Innovation Forum, 28 Feb 2012, New Delhi

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By way of a reminder to all those of you interested, James Nurton, the Managing editor of Managing IP sends us a note about the India IP & Innovation Forum. You can also click through the banner on the left column of the blog for more details on this. India IP & Innovation Forumwww.managingip.com/IndiaIP2012 Regency Hyatt Hotel, New DelhiFebruary 28, 2012 Free for IP counsel, academics and R&D professionals Managing IP’s inaugural India IP & Innovation Forum takes place in

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Recruitment & Promotions at the Trade Marks Registry

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Continuing from my earlier post on the HR Policy at the Patent Office, I will briefly discuss the status of recruitment and promotions at the Trade Marks Registry (TMR). Image from here. The relevant rules for recruitment and promotions at the TMR are called the ‘Trade Marks and Geographical Indications Registry (Registrars and Examiners) Recruitment Rules, 2011. (click here to download these rules) These rules create 6 classes of officers at the Trade Marks Registry:  (i) Senior Joint Registrar of

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Let’s divide the internet!

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For those not familiar with internet meme’s, this is “Insanity Wolf’, who as the name suggests, does not always follow the sane means of achieving his goals. In a move that could potentially mark the beginning of a divided, monitored and censored internet, blogspot has started redirecting users to country specific sites by introducing country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs). If you look in the address bar of your browser, our Indian readers will likely see spicyipindia.blogspot.in instead of .com (and

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Does the DIPP need to revamp the Patent Office HR Policy?

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I’ve recently had a chance to glance through the recruitment and promotion rules for the staff at the Patent Office. A copy of these rules which were procured from the DIPP under the RTI Act, are available for download over here.  The Rules prescribe the minimum qualifications for each category of officers in terms of educational qualifications, age and years of service in order to qualify for promotion. The first set of Rules, pertaining to the staff at the Patent

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Contemptible Comments

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The past few weeks have seen the quality of comments received on the blog sink to abominable levels. If it were simply low quality comments with no bearing on the topic under discussion, one might have deleted it and left it at that. And hoped that commentators would work harder the next time to read the post carefully and leave a comment that was somewhat meritorious. It bears noting that our threshold for “merit” in a comment pretty much mirrors

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‘Practice-directions’ and Anton Piller orders in ‘software piracy’ cases

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Manupatra Intellectual Property Review (MIPR), in its October issue, published one of my articles, critiquing the ex-parte orders that are issued by the Delhi High Court in copyright and trademark infringement cases. The article focuses on three issues: the abuse of the special jurisdictional clauses, ‘Anton Piller’ orders and ‘John Doe’ orders. The article is available for download from SSRN over here.  This post will stress only on the aspect of the ‘Anton Piller’ orders that are granted by the

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Of bouncing cheques and incomplete applications – A case of ‘trademark’ incompetence?

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Lawyers complaining about the delays and hassles faced at the ‘Trademark Registry’ is commonplace. However in a recent role-reversal, the CGPDTM has put up two public notices complaining about the incompetence amongst lawyers who are practicing before the Trademark Registry. Image from here.  In the first notice (available over here), the Trademark Registry has complained about the large number of incomplete applications that it has been receiving from applicants. Some of the regular flaws and the remedial advice from the

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Public Health players combine forces

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January 30th marked an unprecedented level of cooperation between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, several top pharmaceutical companies, governments and other big players in the public health field towards combating and attempting to eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade. These NTDs affect about 1.4 billion people a year and primarily those in developing countries and LDCs.  “Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases“, which was held in London yesterday, marked several sizable contributions and

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INTA announces Annual Calendar of Events

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(Image taken from here)The followers of Spicy IP would undoubtedly already be familiar with the name INTA, which stands for International Trademark Association, a not-for-profit membership association (having close to 6000 trademark owners as members) dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective commerce. Time and again, INTA has brought forth several significant and informative discussions and programs on trademark law-related issues in the past, which have been announced/reported in

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