SpicyIP Announcements: Extension of deadline for IJIPL

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The deadline for submissions for Volume 4 of the journal ‘Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law’ has been extended to February 28th, 2011. The Submissions must be made in accordance with the Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policy found in the ‘submissions’ section of their website: http://www.ijipl.com Submissions are to be mailed to [email protected] For any queries please mail: [email protected]

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Liquid Sunshine from Scotland gets GI in India

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Scotch Whiskey of Scotland has been accorded geographical indication status by the Geographical Indication registry. This is the fourth product from across the border to be accorded GI status in India. The Scotch Whiskey was accompanied by local products; Byaadgi chilli from Karnataka, Khandua saree and fabrics from Orissa, Phulkari from Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, Payyannur Pavithra Ring from Kerala among others. The other GIs from abroad that have been registered in India are Pervian Pisco from Peru, Champagne from

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SpicyIP Tidbits : Coke formula leaked!

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One of the biggest stories of the day has been the leakage of one of the world’s fiercely guided trade secrets- Merchandise X, the formula of coca-cola. While we do not have much details on this as of now, this is definitely going to be one of stories we would love to track! As reported, an American public radio show claims to have found the recipe kept in an Atlanta steel vault. It is said, only two employees of the

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Vakilsearch: The All-new Easy Online Access to Legal Services

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(Image taken from here) For those despairing to find easily accessible pocket-friendly online legal services, Spicy IP bears forth some long-overdue good news, in the form of Vakilsearch. A brainchild of Hrishikesh Datar, alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, it takes a good shot to fill a lacuna that has been there for quite some time. Among others of its unique features, it enables a person to find competent and reliable professional legal help in

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The Sound of Silencing (a blog)

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If there is one thing that we cherish on this blog, it is the ability to speak our hearts and minds freely, within the reasonable bounds of propriety and the law. Naturally, we are wont to take umbrage at any attempt to silence us, particularly by those that have a vested interest in the outcome of a case. Given that a prime objective of this blog is to foster transparency in IP institutions, we often have to hunt for and

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‘Dive’ into more SpicyIP content with Dhiti

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Those of you who’ve been visiting our blog over the past fortnight or so (and not just receiving email updates or accessing posts via RSS feed), will have noticed a box that appears at the bottom of each page which gives you a list of recommended related reading from within our blog. Do try clicking on some of the topics there to see how the recommended readings change. This is the result of an impressive little widget called Dive that

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IPO publishes Draft Design Manual; seeks comments

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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has released a Draft Manual of Design Practice and Procedure, for those design prosecutors among you. The Draft Manual can be downloaded and read here. The Manual promises much, including e-filing of design applications, open access to design file wrappers, and a 3-month turnaround time from filing to registration starting April 2011. The IPO notification requests interested persons to send comments and suggestions on the Draft to [email protected] latest by 10 March 2011. (Speaking of

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Did the Copyright Office goof up when it recognized IPRS as a Copyright Society back in 1996?

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I know it’s a little late to be asking such a fundamental ‘brick & mortar’ question but I’ve just noticed, during the fag end of a due diligence on IPRS’s documents, that the Copyright Office may have goofed up in registering IPRS as a Copyright Society, without first asking them to amend their Articles. Image from here. As most of our readers may know IPRS was registered as a Copyright Society only on 27th March, 1996, two years after the

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Enercon Litigation Gets Wings – Flies from Madras to Delhi; IPAB hosts Enercon orders on its website

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The IPAB website is finally hosting the Enercon Orders over here. It has recently come to our notice that Dr. Wobben, the owner of Enercon GmBH has filed a appeal before the Delhi High Court against the Orders of the IPAB striking down 12 patents belonging to Dr. Wobben. (We’ve blogged about these orders over here and here)The appeal, invoking the writ jurisdiction of the Delhi High Court, was heard by Justice Murlidhar, who has recorded in his order, dated

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Will the Registrar of Copyrights ensure ‘Justice for All’ affected by the mismanagement at IPRS?

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This is the last in the series of posts on the state of affairs at IPRS. The previous posts on the subject can be accessed over here, here, here & here. When I started of this series I had clarified that the contents of the posts were only one side of the story, as I had not contacted either PPL or IPRS for their side of the story. However the revelations in the last few posts, raise several prima facie

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