Bar Exams and Election of Bar Council Chairman

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Gopal Subramanium, the current Solicitor General was recently elected as the Chairman of the Bar Council of India. We wish him the very best as he pilots this body and the profession that it represents to new heights. In an earlier post, we highlighted a Supreme Court ruling that relied extensively on a report by Mr Subramanium and mandated the conduct of bar exams this year. Now that he has been elected as the Bar Council Chairman, the prospects of […]

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IP Talk at NUJS on Current US Patent Law

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On Monday (12th April), Meenakshy Chakravorty will speak at NUJS on current trends in US patent law, including software patents. Those interested in attending this talk may send an email to shayonee[at]gmail.com. The talk is in Room 107 and is expected to range from 4 pm to 6 pm. Meenakshy Chakravorty is an associate with Finnegan Henderson, a leading IP firm in the US. She specializes in litigation and patent prosecution. Her work covers a wide range of technical areas,

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Call for Papers: Public Interest Reviews of the International Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda

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American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) is going to host a workshop of scholars and advocates on June 16-17, 2010, for gauging potential public interest impacts of the shift of international intellectual property norm setting to an enforcement agenda. Following the workshop, a working paper series on Public Interest Analysis of the International Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda is scheduled to be launched. The agenda includes suggestions for a central Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement

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Urgent Request for Help: JPC Report and Indian Bolar Provision

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I’m hoping that one of our readers can help us out here. We’re looking very urgently for the JPC (Joint Parliamentary Committee) report that recommended the insertion of section 107A (a) (the Indian “Bolar” provision) into India’s patent regime. As many of you know, this Committee was set up to recommend changes to India’s patent regime and submitted its report to the Parliament on 19 December 2001. According to the report: “the provision [section 107A(a)] has been made to ensure

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Spicy IP Tidbit: Cross Retaliation by Brazil succeeds

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In what surely represents a big victory for Brazil, after its long standing dispute with USA over their illegal cotton subsidies, Brazil and US have reached a preliminary agreement just 1 day before Brazil was to start enforcing sanctions of $830 million against US. The sanctions were to include $591 million in the form of higher tariffs on a wide range of goods, as well as $239 million in the form of cross-retaliatory measures against American intellectual property. Brazil would’ve

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European Court of Justice Rules in Favour of Google Adwords Program

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SpicyIP has earlier blogged on the Google Adwords controversy wherein we had discussed the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) before the European Court of Justice in the dispute involving Google and Louis Vuitton. On the 23rd of last month, the ECJ held in favour of Google ruling that its sale of trademarks as keywords under its lucrative Adwords program is not violative of the right of the trademark owners. The ECJ distinguished between use of the registered trademark by

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An Indian Bar Exam in the Offing?

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Despite being passed in December 2009, a Supreme Court judgment with tremendous ramifications for the practice of law came to our notice only recently. In Bar Council of India v. Bonnie Foi Law College, Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice H. L. Dattu mandated the Center to conduct bar examinations to test candidates for their suitability or otherwise for entry into the legal profession. You heard right: current law students who expect to graduate this year may not be able to

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Guest Post: Arguments against Software Patents in India

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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a name familiar to many owing to its engagement with matters concerning digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange. The organization seeks to influence the form of internet and its relation with the contemporary political, cultural, and social environment, by way of research, intervention, and collaboration. The Spicy IP team is glad to bring forth to the

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The Great Indian Paradox – India preparing to challenge E.U. regulations at the WTO while also attempting to seal the Indo-E.U. FTA

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Yet again, an anonymous official of our democratically elected government, has informed the ET that the Indian Government is ready to file a WTO complaint against the E.U. for the ‘seizure’ of transiting Indian drug consignments. Apparently talks with the E.U. over the issue have failed and the Indian Government is waiting for the Brazilians to get domestic clearance before both countries file a joint complaint against the E.U. In October, 2009 we had blogged on similar news reports which

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DRMs in the draft Copyright Amendments

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Recently, we’ve had a well written guest post by Amlan Mohanty, wherein he discusses several conceptual and practical problems with laws for the anti-circumvention of technological measures. As pointed out in the post, India is not a member of the WIPO Treaties such as WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty) or WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonogram Treaty), and therefore is not obligated to be importing/implementing DRM provisions into the Copyright law, not to mention that it is a TRIPS plus provision; yet,

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