Announcing the IP Events page

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Among the many fantastic suggestions we have received over the past few weeks was one that caught our eye, and which we thought was easily and immediately implementable: an Events Calendar. If you look carefully on the homepage of the blog, right under the top SpicyIP banner, you will spot a tab indicating the IP Events page, which you can access directly here. Events posting policy In future, any requests for posting events related to IP in India will be […]

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Critique of the IPRI reports

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Bibek Debroy from the Indian Express recently carried an article on the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) and India’s retreat from reforms. While the IPRI 2010 report came out a while ago, I only recently got down to looking at it.  The IPRI, which in its latest edition covers 125 countries, tries to present an index of property rights and show a link to a country’s economic prosperity. Coming under 3 heads – Legal and Political Environment, Physical Property Rights

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‘The Complete Man’ just got split in Two! Raymonds Ltd. loses Trademark Battle

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(Image taken from here)A recent decision of the Bombay High Court appears to have highlighted the intricacies of Section 29 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 to a considerable extent. In the case of Raymond Limited v. Raymond Pharmaceuticals (Suit No. 437 of 2006), a division bench of the Bombay High Court, comprising Justices DK Deshmukh and RP Sondurbaldota, had ordered on July 13, 2010, the appellant Raymond Limited (RL), a Mumbai-based textile company of the Singhania Group, to share

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Off Topic : Call for Papers : Socio-Legal Review

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The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Journal aims to be a forum that involves, promotes and engages students and scholars to express and share their ideas and opinions on themes and methodologies relating to the interface of law and society. SLR thus features guest articles by eminent scholars as well as student essays, providing an interface for the

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Indian Bayh Dole and Transparency in Public Research

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CH Unni of the Mint has a succinct report of the Parliamentary Committee Report that we blogged on yesterday. In particular, he stresses on the “transparency” norms that the Committee has asked the government to follow while revamping the Bill. He also has Mr Subbirami Reddy, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on record stating that a record 75 amendments were proposed to the original text of the Bill. If these are effectuated, we’ll certainly have a more evolved version

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Spicy IPix: India’s oldest trademark?

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Driving along the Bahut Rulaya Tumne* (aka BRT) Corridor in Delhi the other day, I spotted this taxi nudging me into the next lane. The photograph is admittedly grainy, and may not clear up even with adjustable spectacles, (it’s just a bad photo, blame it on the mobile phone that took it). For those who can’t read it (and neither can I, so I recall from memory), the metal logo of the Sikh Khanda symbol has the characters “TM” as

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Readership Survey closed: changes afoot

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The SpicyIP team thanks all of its readers for a fantastic response to our readership survey put out last month. We’ve received some incredibly valuable suggestions, ideas and comments, which we shall try to implement in the weeks to come. We are grateful for your continued support and encouragement, and hope you will keep providing us with ideas and suggestions on how to improve. We have since closed the survey, but please do not hesitate in emailing any of us

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IPAB, Pre-Grant Oppositions and the Onset of a "Heard" Mentality

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A wonderful order by the Madras High Court affirming the UCB vs Farchim decision that pre-grant rejections can be appealed–as the rejection is effectively made under section 15 of the Indian Patents Act. However, the court goes further and holds that the winning pre-grant opponent must necessarily be “heard” in any appeal before the IPAB. A well reasoned and succinct judgment–and most importantly, a “fair” one. The facts of the case are also interesting, since it is one of the

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Parliamentary Committee on Health tables report on issues relating to availability of generic medicines

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The Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recently, on the 4th of August, placed its 45th Report before both Houses of Parliament. The report titled ‘Issues Relating to Availability of Generic, Generic-Branded and Branded Medicines, their Formulation and Therapeutic Efficacy & Effectiveness‘ covers a number of issues ranging from price control to prescription practices to the buy-out of Indian pharmaceutical companies by foreign capital. It can be accessed over here. Some of the pertinent observations

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Indian "Bayh Dole" and a Painful End to the Pursuit of Pleasure

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The Parliamentary “Standing” Committee wound up its various “sittings’ on the much maligned Indian “Bayh Dole” Bill and the report is finally out! The report was recently “laid” on the floor of both Houses of the Indian Parliament, namely the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. It is now upto the government to either accept this report and frame a new bill or to reject it or even to accept/reject in part. Given that the government was closely co-opted into

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