‘Tis the season for migrations – Remfry & Sagar loses key partners to Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan

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In an interesting turn of events, both, MIP & Legally India have reported that, Delhi Based IP firm, Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan, have poached two key partners from IP giant – Remfry and Sagar. The two partners are Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Head of Patents at Remfry & Sagar for over 13 years & Ms. Arpita Sawhney, Litigation Partner at Remfry & Sagar for over 5 years. Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan is a combined Tax & IP firm which is currently […]

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SpicyIP Tidbits:GIs to Bhadohi Carpets and Paithani Sarees

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It seems to be raining GIs for India. After the Hyderabadi Haleem, it is Bhadohi Carpets and Paithani Sarees to be conferred with the GI status. BHADOHI CARPETS: Bhadohi carpets are inspired by classical Indian and Persian motifs and often consists of very intricately knotted designs which have made them a very sought after piece for home decor. The GI status is therefore the much needed respite against the potential infrigements.  UNCTAD India project  supported the artisans, weavers, producers and

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SpicyIP Guest Tidbit: Free pdf conversion and lessons for the Copyright Board

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We have today a quick but mighty amusing tidbit via Ashish Arun on the recent Copyright Board order on music royalties. Readers will recall we’ve posted on the decision in this space here and here already. This post has little to do with the content in substantive terms, but definitely warrants a wave in the direction of the Copyright Board – hope they’re listening! Ashish, who’s written for us before, is a law graduate from the National University of Juridical

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SpicyIP Review: Book on Valuation of IPR

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Akshat Pande, Senior Associate and Head-IPR of SRGR Law Offices, has written a book on Valuation of Intellectual Property Rights published by Eastern Law House, Kolkata. Akshat is a company secretary and a practicing advocate. Following is a short note written by Mr.Pande reviewing his own book. The book is reasonably priced at Rs. 550. This is the first edition of the book and is probably among the first books in India on concepts and fundamentals related to valuation of

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Patently Shameful Career Prospects?

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In a hard hitting article, CH Unni reports on the rather deplorable career prospects at the Indian Patent Office. I extract below: “An Indian examiner’s monthly salary and other incentives at Rs.35,000-40,000 is the lowest and less than a third of her counterpart in foreign patent offices even after taking into consideration the purchase power parity. ….“We have been working for the office for more than seven years and in return we have not got a single promotion or pay

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SpicyIP Events: One Day Seminar on "PRECEDENTIAL PATENT CASES"

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The Academy of Intellectual Property Studies, Mumbai announces a One Day Seminar on “PRECEDENTIAL PATENT CASES” on September 23. 2010, at their premises in Goregaon. The Seminar will be conducted by Feroz Ali Khader, the Chennai-based IP lawyer, and author of several books on patent law in India. It will likely be a fascinating seminar to attend. The added bonus to registration is that all participants will get access to the Patent Fast Reporter, a patent reporting journal edited by

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SpicyIP Trivia: The ‘Mal’-factor of the Indian IP Scene

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During the course of a random discussion, with a friend, on prominent voices and faces on the Indian IP scene I discovered that a disproportionately large number of these prominent voices and faces were from ‘God’s own Country’ – Kerala. People from Kerala, are sometimes fondly referred to as ‘Mallus’ or ‘Mals’, after the language that they speak which is, Malyalam. When I was at NLSIU in Bangalore, we even had a ‘Mal Mafia’, in the senior batches, whose members

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Update on Bayer-Cipla patent infringement suit: Nexavar patent infringement suit before the Delhi High Court goes directly to trial

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In a significant departure from the standard practice in Indian patent trials, Justice Ravinder Bhat, who is presiding over the Nexavar patent infringement suit filed by Bayer against Cipla, has ordered, on the 23rd of July, 2010, that the suit be expedited directly to trial. We had previously blogged on this case over here. In the normal course of events the Court would have first disposed the interim injunction application after which the matter would be directed to trial. This

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WIPO and Patent Exclusions: Public Health and Medical Methods

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At the start of this year, WIPO commissioned a group of us (under the stewardship of Professor Lionel Bently, the famed Cambridge IP don and co-author of the leading treatise: Bently and Sherman on IP) to do a report on exceptions, exclusions and limitations in patent law. This report was prepared pursuant to the work at the SCP (Standing Committee on the Law of Patents) and will be tabled at the 15th SCP session this October. The background to this

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Results :1st Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Law Essay Competititon,2010.

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The Results of 1st Franklin Pierce Law Centre Intellectual Property Law Essay Competition, 2010in association with National Law University, Jodhpur have been announced. Heartiest congratulations to all the winners! We wish them all the best. Name Title of the essay Prize details First Subhajit Banerji Patenting Software Full tuition waiver for the Intellectual Property Summer Institute and Concord, New Hampshire and a cash prize of Rs. 15,000 (INR) Second Neha Choudhari and Tarun Gopalakrishnan Open season on the biotech range

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