ICANN renders ‘domain tasting’ unpalatable

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The Hindu recently carried an extremely interesting article by T. Ramachandran on how ICANN has made the practice of ‘domain tasting’ unpalatable for those who were abusing it. As most of you may know ‘domain tasting’ refers to the practice of whereby a person or company registering a domain name is allowed an ‘Additional Grace Period’ (AGP) during which he can judge the traffic towards the domain name. If the person is not satisfied with the domain name he can […]

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Notes from a GI Seminar

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This post emerges from the National Seminar on Geographical Indications held in New Delhi recently which I had the opportunity to attend in part. That ‘part’ extended only to the first day, but shed some interesting light on the evolution of GI protection in India. (Details of the event, organised by the Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, can be found here). For the benefit of readers, I highlight below three issues that emerged in discussion that day which I found

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Indian innovation: Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta on the Cross Pollination of innovation and its promotion

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Recently, Sumathi pointed the SpicyIP team to this article in the Wall Street Journal about Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta and I grabbed the chance to post about him before anyone else could. I first heard about Prof. Gupta last year, when as a member of the Editorial Board for a Journal published by my University, we began to look for diverse influences in the sphere of Intellectual Property to be on our Advisory Panel. Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta in my

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Montblanc’s ‘Gandhi pen’ lands in court

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“I have no copyright in my portraits but I am unable to give the consent you require.” Thus wrote Mahatma Gandhi in May 1931, in response to manufacturer who wanted to use his portrait in roofing tiles. Nearly four score years on, an international luxury brand wants to do precisely what Gandhi expressly bid against – use his portrait in the manufacture of prohibitively expensive, limited edition pens. But it’s been a noisy launch, and perhaps very unexpected and discomforting

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Applying for Patents does pay: Wockhardt wins Kudos from the Indian Government

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Wockhardt Limited, a renowned Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company (logo image taken from here) that has its base in Mumbai, has recently earned quite a significant accolade from the Government of India for the large number of patents it has filed for and been granted in course of the past few years. It was on September 24, 2009 that the Union Government had made its decision known of awarding to the company the prestigious title of the ‘Pharmaceutical Company with

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Print Impairment and Copyrights

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There have recently been discussions by the CIS (The Center for Internet and Society) over some important issues relating to the intercourse of copyright protection and accessibility of content. Bringing up important points about the lack of access that certain categories of people have to printed material, they seek to approach the government for appropriate amendments to the present copyright laws. They have broadly defined ‘print impaired’ people as those who cannot access standard printed material due not only visual

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SpicyIP Jobs: Fabulous Opportunity for Patent Attorneys

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Position Title: Patent Attorney Firm Profile: One of India’s leading law firms Location: Delhi Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications 2. Dealing with Patent Oppositions 3. Preparing written opinions on issues of patentability 4. Conducting patent searches, patent landscaping, analysis etc Required Qualification: 1 – 2 years experience with patent drafting and prosecution Salary: Commensurate with the best in the industry Contact: If interested, please drop an email with your CV to [email protected] @gmail.com>

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Dancing to the Tune of Garba and Dandiya: Gujarat High Court says "No Fair"?

/ By / Copyright

A recent decision of the Gujarat High Court has caught the attention of the SpicyIP team, which appears to be capable of sparking off a rather lively debate. The decision is the one that has been reached in the case of Devendrakumar Ramchandra Dwivedi v State of Gujarat and Others (Special Civil Application No. 9979 of 2009). This was an example of a unsuccessful public interest litigation that the Petitioner had filed, apprehending disruption of Navaratri Garba and Dandiya Mahotsav

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Call for Papers: The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT)

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The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is an annual law journal published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association, at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. IJLT is the first and only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law. The previous issues of IJLT have featured articles by distinguished authors such as Yochai Benkler, Donald S. Chisum, Raymond T. Nimmer, John Frow, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Liang

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Video Pirates, Preventive Detention and the Constitution of India

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SpicyIP’s good friend K.V. Dhananjay, a practising Advocate, at the Supreme Court of India recently brought to our attention the news that the State of Karnataka was planning to enact a legislation to allow for the preventive detention of ‘Video Pirates’ i.e. people who have been charged with copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, 1957 atleast once. The trend of putting away ‘video pirates’ under preventive detention statutes has picked up with atleast three states already having enacted such legislations

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