Contd…Delhi High Court rules on Section 47: Provides the Indian Railways a carte blanche to bust patents

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Continuing from the last post on Justice Murlidhar’s Order, this post will attempt to understand the Delhi High Court’s interpretation of Section 47 of the Patents Act. As already explained in the earlier post one of the primary arguments of the Defendants was that Defendants 2,3 & 4 were manufacturing the infringing product on behalf of Defendant No. 1 (The Ministry of Railways) who had supplied the drawings of the product. Defendants Arguments: It was argued by the Defendants that […]

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Delhi High Court rules on Section 8 and 47 of the Patents Act: Lack of disclosure under S.8 = No interim injunction

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Thanks to Sumathi’s wizardry over Google we have for your viewing pleasure yet another order authored by Justice Murlidhar on two very crucial provisions of the Patents Act – Section 8 and Section 47 (In this post I’ll cover only the Section 8 aspect, the Section 47 aspect will be covered in a subsequent post – for now let it suffice to say that the patentee lost the case on both sections). The judgment can be accessed here at the

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Panel Discussion on Bilski

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The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) Washington College of Law, American University and the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will host a panel of experts to discuss the much debated Bilski v. Kappos on November 19, 2009,4.30 pm-6.30 pm, EST. This is being made possible due to outstanding efforts of Prof. Josh Sarnoff of Washington College of Law who has written extensively on the matter here and here . The case essentially throws light on the limitations on patentable

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Copyright Access for the Disabled and Collaborative IP Policy

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In previous posts, we covered the Right to Read Campaign, a campaign aimed at increasing access to copyrighted works for the print impaired. As many of you know, most works of literature, science and the arts are practically out of bounds for the disabled, unless converted to readable formats such as Braille or digitized and accessed via expensive screen reader software such as JAWS. Recently, this campaign, the brainchild of CIS and Inclusive Planet, came home to us at NUJS,

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Global Health Policy- when is the price right?

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Our readers will remember this post by Suchita which apart from a highly memorable picture from Shrek, also dealt with the important issue of profit margins in terms of pharmaceutical manufacture. And now, SpicyIP is thrilled to report to its readers that there is finally a down to earth, honest admission by an Indian entrepreneur on the state of Global health care, and India’s contribution or lack thereof to it. Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, known to most Indians as a

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IP Job Opportunities in Pune and Gurgaon

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Two key IP positions are open at one of India’s leading law firms, details of which are below. If interested in applying, please write to spicyipjob[at]gmail.com with your CV. Location: Pune (1 position) and Gurgaon (1 position) Roles and Responsibilities: Prosecution and advisory work related to trademarks, copyrights and designs. IPR litigation experience would be an advantage. Should be able to handle IPR work independently. Likely to also involve IP transactional and corporate work. Required Qualification: i) 3 – 5

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Cybersquatting gets Sharp Rap from INDRP Arbitration: Bloomberg Finance Wins

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(picture source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6449363.stm) Among the recent cases that have been decided in relation to .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP), the following one has seen Bloomberg Finance L.P., (BF) a United States-based company, winning the domain name Bloomberg.net.in (full judgment available here). BF had filed a complaint with the .In Registry, National Exchange of India (NIXI), against Mr. Kanhan Vijay, a resident of Nagpur, India and claimed to be the registered proprietor of the services mark BLOOMBERG in India

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Legality of Grey Market Goods in India

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Sai Deepak did an excellent post capturing the essence of a recent judgment by Justice Muralidhar (of the Roche vs Cipla fame). While the judgment got it right in several places, and will come as music to the ears of patentees, who’ve so far been at the receiving end of the Indian judiciary, it loses out on a fabulous opportunity to clarify the scope of section 107A(b), the section dealing with parallel imports. As many of you may recollect, this

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SpicyIP Tidbits: The UPOV Uprooting Participation?

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An interesting article in IP Watch caught the attention of the SpicyIP team this week. In keeping with our endeavour to increase transparency and discussion on intellectual property related topics, this article in IP Watch has provided us with ample information. The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants this month to grant two advocacy groups, the “observer status” as has been provided for under the Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Convention.

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Google Book Settlement- Indian Government Protests…Finally

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“Don’t Be Evil” apparently is the unofficial slogan of Google; though, it isn’t clear if this Hammurabic finger-wagging precept is Google’s pearl of wisdom to the rest of the world or if it is directed inwards to monitor itself… (by the way, those who may be interested in tracing the origins of the expression “wagging the finger”, check this out). Anyways, most IP aficionados would be aware of the raging controversy surrounding the Google Books Settlement; for others, here’s a

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