IP Vacancy in Delhi

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Firm Profile: One of India’s leading IP and Litigation & Arbitration law firms Location: New Delhi Roles and Responsibilities:  i. Handling Domain Name Disputes (UDRP/INDRP) ii. Handling contentious IP files (Oppositions/Rectifications/Lawsuits)  Required Qualification: i. One year of experience in trademarks practice, preferably litigation ii. Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal  Salary Commensurate with the best in the industry Contact [email protected]

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Ten suggestions for the better functioning of the IPOs website/workings

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Ten suggestions for the better functioning of the IPOs website/workings Don’t get us wrong-we love our IPO but there are at least few things that the IPO can do better in order to make the site more user friendly and content a bit more easily accessible to the users.  In the software world, Linus’ law states that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”   Therefore, this post is written to provide constructive feedback for our patent office. The suggestions are

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SpicyIP Resources: Manupatra shares with us its copy of the Hilltone judgment

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Mr. Deepak Kapoor of Manupatra.com, one of India’s leading online legal portals, has been kind enough to, promptly, share with us, his copy of the Hilltone judgment rendered by the Additional District Court, Sirohi District, Rajasthan, along with a translation of the same. We thank him for the same. It is now available on our website over here. Please note this is the judgment against which an appeal has been filed by the Rajasthan High Court and not the order

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Rajasthan HC refuses to ‘stay’ the operation of the permanent injunction in the ‘Hilltone v. Hilton’ case

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In a surprising order, the Rajasthan High Court has refused to stay the order of the Additional District Judge, restraining Hilton from using its name in relation to the hospitality sector. The story has been carried by the IE,. We had earlier blogged about the District Court’s order over here. The Plaintiff in this case – Hilltone Hotel – located in Mount Abu, had filed this suit against Hilton International Corporation alleging ‘deceptive similarity’ to its own name and praying

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Access to Medicine groups call for a halt on USTR’s 301 Process

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Since 1988, the USTR has been coming out with its “Special 301” report, a unilateral measure which essentially patronises the rest of the world by ranking countries based on how much the USTR appreciates their IP regimes, and based on those rankings, threatens lower placed countries with sanctions. (See our previous posts on the 301 process here). As usual, TRIPS-plus policies are the ones US considers desirable and are the ones that are promoted. They are considered ‘adequate’, while IP regimes which

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"Prioritising" Pharmaceutical Patents in India?

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Many pharma patent cases (including the Novartis Gleevec case and the Roche Valcyte case) raise the issue of “relevant” priority dates. Tahir Amin dealt with this issue at length in this wonderful post here. I extract his introduction as under: “Ask the question whether pre-95 drug inventions are patentable in India under the 2005 Patents Act – and the answer you are likely to get is ‘no they are not’. The reason? India became a member of TRIPS on 1

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SpicyIP Tidbit: ‘ Greenpeace ‘advised’ to remove TATA logo from game

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Readers have very likely already seen the news of TATA having dragged Greenpeace to the Delhi High Court in a defamation and trademark infringement suit over the use of its logo (stylized T in a circle) in an online game. TATA has alleged that the use of its logo is “disparaging” and “libelious”. The Greenpeace game was launched to mark the ongoing conflict between attempts to protect the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles and TATA Steel’s port located off the coast

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Natco & Ranbaxy delay proceedings in the Glivec case before the Supreme Court

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I had earlier carried a post on how the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear the Novartis (Glivec) case in the month of July, 2010. The case was initially scheduled for the 6th of July, 2010 before the Registrar S.G. Shah. The Registrar usually oversees the case until all necessary pleadings are completed after which the matter is listed before a bench of the Supreme Court for hearings. On the 6th of July, 2010 when the matter was listed before

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Welcoming Rajiv Choudhry to the Blog

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I have great pleasure in announcing that Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, an Indian patent agent working in the US (and qualified in both India and the US, albeit partly) will be joining us on SpicyIP, starting today. Rajiv has a B.E. in Electronics from Nagpur University and an LL.B. from the University of Delhi, Law Center-II. Not content with two degrees, he went on to acquire an LL.M. in IP law at the George Washington University Law School and an MBA

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‘Inception’ and Ideas: Lessons for the Copyright Hungry

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“An idea can transform the world and re-write all the rules. Which is why I have to steal it” – Dom Cobb (from the film ‘Inception’) It’s not often we quote lines from Hollywood movies on Spicy IP, but this particular dialogue by Leonardo DiCaprio in the recently released Hollywood film – Inception, immediately caught my attention and is certain to give any copyright law enthusiast a chill down the spine for its striking accuracy as well as its ability

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