2nd IPR Researcher’s Confluence at IIT Bombay!!

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Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) , IIT Bombay will be hosting the 2nd IPR Researcher’s Confluence during February 11-12, 2011. The confluence is an attempt towards creating an environment where people interact, share and unlearn to learn new concepts, appreciate issues and brainstorm to identify suitable approaches to the problems raised. This year’s theme has been titled as Paradigm of IPR in the Digital Context , which tried to understand the literal linkage between digital technologies,legal and business […]

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Progress(?) in International Effort to Tackle Pandemics

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The  ‘Open Ended Working Group” on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness recently completed its 2nd meeting and has resulted in some breakthroughs in the long standing effort by nations to prepare a framework for tackling pandemics, especially for poorer countries which do not have the capacity to develop or receive vaccinations. As usual, there is a developing – developed country divide on certain issues. [William New of IP Watch has an interview with a key negotiator of these meetings here.] The issue which they’ve

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INTA – Trademark trailblazers – 12th February, 2010

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Despite the surge in the domestic economy, home grown brands are slow in registering their trademarks overseas and lack robust brand management strategies. It is important to expose Indian brand owners to international trends in trademark law in order for them to better compete with other brands at the global level. At Trademark Trailblazers in India, taking place February 12 in Mumbai, you’ll receive updates on global developments and local trademark issues and learn cutting edge strategies on leveraging a

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Copyrighting a Wrong and Injecting Fairness into Bollywood

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A Parliamentary Standing Committee recommendation that music composers and lyricists are to get an equal share of all revenues that flow from the commercialisation of film music has stirred a hornet’s nest. Bollywood producers are now threatening to strike against this provision and apprehend that if this provision converts to law, they will be forced to shut down! As we debate the pros and cons of this historical provision, we need to ask ourselves a fundamental question. What is the

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The debate on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 to spill out on the streets of Delhi

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In what must be a first for Copyright Law in India, film producers across the country have announced a one day strike, on the 6th of January, 2011, during which they shall carry out protest marches in New Delhi against the proposed amendments, to the Copyright Act, 1957, which not only promise greater royalties to composers and lyricists but also bar assignments of copyrights to producers. In addition to the strike, the Film Federation of India, the mother body of

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Copyright Act Standing Committee Report:Technological Protection Measures

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In the next few posts, I will be covering various aspects of the Parliamentary Standing Committee’s report on the proposed amendments to the Indian Copyright Act. I will try and highlight the key points discussed during the committee proceedings with minimal analysis, and provide links to our earlier discussions and posts on the concerned issue. I hope to present the different industry positions and lobbying strategies, in the name of transparency. In this post, I will be covering the issue

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First GNLU-Y. J. Trivedi Annual IP Essay Competition

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We are pleased to inform you that GNLU in collaboration with the Y. J. Trivedi & Co., Ahmedabad is organising a National level Annual Intellectual Property Rights Essay Competition 2010-11. Following are the topics for the IP Essay Competition: 1) IPR: A key driver of business strategy in I.T. Industry 2) Protection of Database: An analysis of international scenario and the Indian Position – the road ahead. 3) The role of Indian Judiciary with special reference to the Global IP

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IMRSCI announces Second Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law

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(Image taken from here)Followers of Spicy IP may be interested to know that the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMRSCI: A joint initiative by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law as well as the Department of Economics, the Munich School of Management, and the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich) and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich have decided to jointly host the Second Workshop for

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Delhi Metro Rail Corp. v. Sudhir Vohra: State’s Copyright not exempt under RTI Act

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In the present petition, the Delhi High Court day before yesterday (December 24th 2010) rejected the contentions of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). DMRC had refused to disclose the design of the Metro Pillar sought by an RTI applicant. Facts: The Respondent, Mr. Sudhir Vohra is an architect who sought the designs of the Metro Pillar No. 67, which collapsed on 12th July, 2009 killing seven. The Central Public Information Commissioner and the Appellate Authority rejected Mr.Vohra’s contentions. The

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Bennett Coleman appeals Financial Times order

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An update via Mint, we hear that Bennett Coleman Co. Ltd. (BCCL) has appealed against the 15 December 2010 order of a Single Judge Bench of the Delhi High Court which refused to stay an infringement suit filed by the Financial Times Ltd. (London). Readers will recall a post we’d run some days ago in the matter, which you can read here. The Mint story reports that the appeal has been admitted by a Division Bench of the Delhi High

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