Searching for Bright Sparks this Festive Season

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SpicyIP wishes its readers a wonderful Diwali, often referred to as the “festival of lights” (though, with the sound of firecrackers dominating each season, one might be tempted to rename it the “festival of sounds”). On this festive occasion, might we prod you towards a “green” celebration by reminding you that the brightest light of them all is the light of knowledge. And the most potent sound of them all is the sound of silence. But for those of us […]

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Delhi High Court bars the use of ‘Krishna’ as a trademark to market dairy products

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We have another guest post from Tania Sarcar, this time in relation to a judgment of the Delhi High Court on the use of ‘Krishna’ as a trademark to market dairy products. We had earlier carried a post on the judgment of the Single Judge in the same case. Delhi High Court bars the use of ‘Krishna’ to market dairy products by Tania Sarcar This post presents a brief note of a recent judgment by the Delhi High Court in

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Branded Babies?

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I’ve never bred any babies of my own (well, at least to the best of my knowledge). But have helped several friends in what must be one of the most taxing tasks ever known to mankind: that of finding appropriate names for babies. While some of us want baby names to be unique, others are content with simply naming them after their favourite gods, goddesses, sport-stars, rock-stars, cine-stars…you name it! And yet others don’t give a damn…name and be done

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An update on the PILs against the IPAB and the Copyright Board

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As we had reported earlier, the Division Bench of the Madras High Court had ordered the State Government and the Central Government to co-operate in relocating the IPAB to a new office with adequate space. The State Government came back with a proposal to relocate the IPAB at the TIDEL Park Building which had the required space. The proposed rent was pegged at about Rs. 15 lakhs per month. Apparently the Central Government found this to be too expensive and

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Shah Rukh Khan’s RA.One in Copyright Dispute

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Shah Rukh Khan’s latest film venture, RA.One, an expensive affair to begin with, just got costlier by Rs. One crore, for a potential intellectual property rights violation. This isn’t the first time the release of an expected Bollywood blockbuster has been hindered by the prospect of having violated provisions of the Indian Copyright Act. Interestingly in this case, the court did not not stay the release of the film, but rather asked SRK’s company, Red Chillies Entertainment to deposit Rs.

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FICCI launches Online Certificate Course in IP

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FICCI has launched an Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property, for which registrations are scheduled to begin next month. FICCI sends us the following information on the course, and related registration details. Please don’t forget to mention you came via SpicyIP! — Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has started an Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property (IP). The objective of the Course is to increase awareness about IP in the Society for the benefit of the

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Of ties, school ties and alumni

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School ties are easy enough to get rid of. Mine was navy blue, with sky blue stripes on it. Not very pretty, but I have still kept it, grudgingly, to remind me of those horror-some years. But college ties are a completely different story. As I was to discover in the three years after school. It’s been a while since, but college is still not out of mind. (image from here) But enough about me and my collection of ties.

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Reflecting on the Transparency Crusade

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The genesis of SpicyIP in 2005 had strong roots in the fervent desire to weed out corruption at Indian IP offices, by interalia, fostering greater levels of transparency. While we’ve witnessed some modest success along the way, it really falls several notches short of what we initially set out to do. All of us have day jobs/preoccupations that cast serious limitations on the time that we have at our disposal, but that is no excuse. The road to transparency has

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Roche files a total of ten law suits for infringement of its ‘erlotinib’ patent – IN 196774

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While Novartis was the first land mark case on Section 3(d), it was the Roche-Cipla tussle over Indian Patent No. 196774, which laid down the first judicial precedent for the grant of interim injunctions in the case of infringement of pharmaceutical patents. This infringement suit was filed in January, 2008 and Justice Bhat subsequently delivered orders on the interim injunction application within 2 months. The matter then went to trial, which is now complete and should hopefully be argued before

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Managing IP brings India IP Focus 8th Edition

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The regular readers of Spicy IP may already be familiar with Managing IP, an organization providing global resources for IP news and analysis, whose IP webinars have often been announced and reported in the past in this blog (here, for example). One of the resource units in the Managing IP website concentrates exclusively on relevant and contemporary India-specific IP issues, titled India IP Focus. The latest edition of India IP focus, for example, brings for the readers a wonderful repository

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