The ‘standard form’ injunctions of the Delhi High Court in software piracy cases

/ By / Copyright

One of the main complaints against the ex-parte injunctions granted to PPL and IPRS by the Delhi High Court has been the lack of consistency in the wording of the ex-parte injunctions and the lack of protection for the defendants. Often the relief depends on which judge is hearing the matter and we’ve therefore had situations where different judges grant different orders in the same week i.e. one grants an ex-parte injunction while the other denies the same. We’ve blogged […]

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Supreme Court refuses to stay the judgment restraining Hilton from threatening Hilltone

/ By / Trademark

Several newspapers such as the Mint and the ET have recently reported on how the Supreme Court has rejected Hilton’s appeal against an adverse judgment passed by a District Court in Rajasthan last year. We have blogged previously about the judgment over here and here. It is likely though that both newspapers have been slightly inaccurate in their reporting. Both news reports seem to suggest that the order of the Supreme Court upholds the decision of the District Court. A

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SpicyIP in MIP’s Top 50 Shaping the Future of IP

/ By / Others

SpicyIP is pleased to report Managing IP’s annual selection of the top 50 who are shaping the future of intellectual property. This year, MIP has focused on individuals rather than institutions which includes an unconventional and eclectic collection of bloggers, artists, litigants and campaigners, besides politicians, judges, regulators and bureaucrats form around the world. The SpicyIP team is honoured and (at least on my part) a little overwhelmed to have been selected to be on this list. SpicyIP is among

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Forum Blasting at the IPO: Kurian’s Parting Blast?

/ By / Patent

Indian IP is complex, fun and certainly spicy. But most importantly, it is unique. And one of the factors that makes for this uniqueness is that we have four IP offices across the country (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai). Given that all offices have equal powers in many respects, it is downright derogatory to label any of them as “branches”. One might argue however, a la George Orwell, that some offices are more “equal” than others, since they house the

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Gilead dips its toes into Patent Pool

/ By / Innovation, Patent

Earlier this year, we had carried a post on UNITAID’s Medicines Patent Pool being in talks with several key pharmaceutical companies. In a press release by the Medicines Patent Pool today, they announced an agreement with Gilead Sciences, which makes them the first pharmaceutical company to join the MPP. Gilead also announced that they had already established license agreements with 4 India based drug manufacturers – Hetero Drugs Ltd., Matrix Laboratories Ltd., Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and Strides Arcolab Ltd Patent Pools

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Vacancy for Legal Manager in Trademark Law at Belgium Company’s Indian Subsidiary

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Longbow, a subsidiary of Darts-IP, Belgium, is looking for a Legal Manager in the field of Trademark Law. Darts-IP is a unique service provider for Intellectual Property professionals, offering a complete overview of European IP case law. The IP case law databases (trademark, patent, domain name, and design and models) at Darts presently contain more than 150,000 decisions from 400 courts in 22 European countries. Recently Longbow has established an office in Kolkata as a part of its expansion drive

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arunjaitley.com – A Case of Cybersquatting

/ By / Trademark

In this post, I will cover the decision of the Delhi High Court in the cybersquatting case relating to the domain name http://www.arunjaitley.com FACTS OF THE CASE: The plaintiff in this case, Arun Jaitley, is the well known politician and leader of the BJP. He wished to register the domain http://www.arunjaitley.combut found that the domain had already been registered as of the year 2009. The plaintiff sent a letter to Network Solutions (the 2nd defendant) requesting registration on 16th July,

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IP Research Fellow Position at NUJS

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Another position has opened up for an IP Research Fellow at NUJS, one of the leading law schools in India. The Research Fellow will be expected to work at the cutting edge of IP policy and research work, IP litigation and IP education. We have a number of exciting IP events planned for the future, including IP workshops/seminars/moot courts and the Fellow is expected to actively participate in all of these. Apart from this, the Fellow will be involved in

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Tracking PPL’s New Year litigation – Will it continue to repeat itself?

/ By / Copyright

I’m sure most of us are rather saturated with this blog’s coverage of the happenings IPRS and PPL. But before these issues die the quick death that they are destined to, I would like to discuss, in this post, the massive litigation initiated by PPL against hotels and restaurants in the December of 2010 over the music that these venues play for ‘New Years’ celebrations. On the 29th of December, 2010 the Copyright Society for the public performance of ‘sound

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SpicyIP Events: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights: Second Annual National Workshop for Law Students

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SpicyIP is pleased to announce the second edition of the Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights Annual Workshop, a great opportunity for students across the country, organised by the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies in association with HRD Chair on IPR, Cochin University of Science and Technology. We had blogged about the first annual workshop here. This year’s workshop is to be held from January 12 to 14, 2012 and the theme is “Indian Patent Law: Social Overtones”. Objectives of the

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