BioPiracy in Africa: Take 2?

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The Pelargonium Patent case and the ruling that we had blogged about here was hailed as a landmark decision against bio-piracy. It, however, seems to have done little to abate the enthusiasm of companies to set out applying for and sometimes even getting a patents for, what is considered, traditional knowledge of indigenous communities in Africa. Afro-IP, a leading blog on African IP issues, reports on two such controversial grants of patents on the Traditional Knowledge of Tanzania and Kenya, […]

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Reminder:Registration for INTA Annual Meeting

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The International Trademark Association is a non-profit membership association. It consists of 5900 trademark owners, professionals and academics, from more than 190 countries. It is dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property. INTA’s 132nd Annual Meeting is the trademark community’s premier event in 2010 for networking, continuing legal education, and committee and client meetings. Skill building workshops, industry breakouts, interactive table topics and trademark law sessions focused on international and U.S topics are being organized.

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And for those of you who missed the bus

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Here’s an exciting news!! The submission deadline for the 1st Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Law Essay Competition has been extended to April 30, 2010. Further, for clarification it is notified that the word limit of 5000 words is inclusive of footnotes. Students who have already submitted their essays are permitted to resubmit their essays by the specified deadline (i.e., April 30, 2010). Spicy IP,web media partner for the event hopes for a deluge of entries.So hurry and put

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Guest Post: To be or not to be 3(d)

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As promised, the Spicy IP readers are yet in the line for a treat in the form of the following exciting and insightful Guest Post from Suchita Saigal, a name familiar to any of the followers of this blog: SECTION 3(D) –AGAIN? In a recent article DNA reported that, several companies were filing patent applications for various forms of the same substance. The problem being that most of these forms did not satisfy the enhanced efficacy test laid down in

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OSDD successfully maps TB Genome

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The government sponsored CSIR programme, the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) (which we have written about previously here) on Sunday, announced that they had successfully completed the first ever mapping of the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) genome. The MTB gene was sequenced more than a decade ago. However of the 4000 genes, only 1000 had been annotated before the start of this online project. Known as ‘Connect 2 Decode’ (C2D) and started in late 2008, the project was unique, in that

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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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