SpicyIP Tidbits:Bayer Patent Linkage

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Updating our readers more on the Bayer patent linkage case ,the Supreme Court on February 26,has refused to stay a Delhi High Court Order ,dated February 10. The said Order had rejected Bayer’s attempt to block the Drug Controller General of India from allowing Cipla Ltd. to market its generic version of Nexavar. A notice has been issued to Cipla and the matter has been listed for further hearing in the third week of April. We shall keep you updated […]

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INTA’s 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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Rin v. Tide: Taking Indian Advertisement to a Different Level… (below the belt?)

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  “Bold and brash” is in and it’s the new chic(k?). Gone are the days of harmless understated advertisements (Oh I am not complaining at all, maybe I will after a few decades, but not now). If Deepika Chikhalia was the epitome of the “Bharateeya Naari” (thanks to Ramanand Sagar’s “Ramayan”) for “Nirma Super” for what seems like ages ages ago, the new set of female characters in advertisements for detergent powders appear to be scheming conniving “saas-bahu” types straight

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Bayer appeals to SC in patent linkage case

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We have an interesting tibdit via Indu Bhan of the Financial Express: Bayer has decided to take Cipla to the Supreme the grant of marketing approval under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act (DCA) to Cipla’s drug Sorafenib. A Bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari has posted the matter for hearing today. You will recall Prakruthi’s comprehensive post on the decision of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in the matter a fortnight or so ago. The Division Bench

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SpicyIP Tidbits: India trendy on IP matters!

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Whiling away some time on the internet, I decided to check Google Trends – which ranks countries based on the frequency of the search term entered – for ‘patents’, ‘copyrights’, ‘ipr’, ‘intellectual property rights’, ‘intellectual property laws’, etc. To my surprise, I found that, with the exception of one or two search terms, India is far, far ahead of any other country for almost every IP-related search term!Even for terms where India was not on top, such as ‘trademarks’, ‘innovation’,

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Andhaakaanoon: An Obtuse Copyright Exception for the Disabled?

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In previous posts, I noted the need for a meaningful copyright exception in favour of the “disabled”, a category not necessarily limited to those that are visually impaired, but includes any person unable to enjoy copyrighted works in their “normal” format. Illustratively, legendary scientist Stephen Hawking who suffers from ALP (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is unable to read a printed book, but has to have this book digitized and then filtered through special software which reads it out to him. Many

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Seminar on “Music and Copyright”

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The seminar is being organized by the Tech-IPR Cell of ILS Law College, Pune. Date: 6th March 2010 Time: 9:45 am to 6:45 pm Venue: Laxmi Building (behind Pavilion), ILS Law College, Law College Road, Pune 411004 Registration: 18 – 28 Febraury 2010 Sessions: “Musical Works” by Prof. Kedarnath Awati, Professor, Music, Dean of Academics, FTII, Pune.“Copyright in Musical Works: Development of Law” by Mr. Tehemantan Daruwalla, Advocate and Solicitor, Patent and Trademark Agent.“Copyright in Musical Works: Infringement and Liability”

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Reforms at the IP Office

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Mint has newly launched a blog titled Vanishing Point which will focus “on intellectual property law to analyse issues that come up at the point where law converges with technology”. Srividhya Raghavan who is a Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law and is specializing in intellectual property and C.H Unnikrishnan, a national writer with Mint who has been consistently covering intellectual property news will be writing on the blog. The first piece on the blog

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Workshop on "How to Manage Online Identity"

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Cyberspace & Intellectual Property Foundation (CIPFO) is organizing a workshop on “How to Manage Online Identity”. The workshop will focus on technical, legal and social aspects of Domains and User Names in Web 2.0 environment including those created on Facebook and Twitter. Well known experts from legal and new media would be sharing their views and experiences. Date: 26th Feb 2010 Venue: Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, India Sessions: • Choosing the right Domain Name• How to protect your Domain

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Montblanc Undertakes to not sell "Gandhi" Pens

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A legal dispute over the use of the Gandhiji’s imagery on a commemorative Montblanc pen may be seeing closure soon. Montblanc gave an oral undertaking before the Kerala High Court (a bench consisting of the Acting Chief Justice PR Raman and Justice Ramachandran Nair ) today that it would not sell any pens with the image of Gandhiji, till such time as its application for permission is decided by the Central Government. Under section 3 of the Emblems and Names

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