IIT alums lead the way in incubating ideas

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A new project of the PanIIT Alumni India to promote innovation in India may be just the right push needed to bring the achievements of budding inventors and innovators to fruition. EFY Times reports that the India Technology Centre (ITC) will be functioning under the aegis of PanIIT Alumni India (PIAI), with its primary objectives as follows: To promote and foster a culture of innovation and invention in India. To provided support and guidance to inventors, and help them to […]

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Rigging Data: IPR’s and the IMPACT of Counterfeits

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There’s no dearth of counterfeiting and piracy data. And the figures escalate year after year. Naturally these figures are followed up with clarion calls to have more aggressive IPR enforcement. And often times, these heavy duty figures (which span a variety of IP industries such as pharmaceuticals, software, music and movies) are followed up by figures on loss of jobs, employment etc as a consequence of piracy and counterfeiting. And more recently, these figures have also been linked up to

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Guest Post: Patents Patents Everywhere, no revenue in sight!

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SpicyIP is excited to bring to you yet another guest post from Sheja Ehtesham, a graduate from NALSAR University of Law currently working with Krishna & Saurashtri in Bangalore. Also my classmate, Sheja is now a self-confessed blog-a-holic and we’re pleased to bring to you another post of her’s in such a short span of time. This post discusses the murky issue of revenue that is gathered from Patent Filing in India. Patents Patents everywhere, no revenue in sight! IP

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Anjali Prasad to be new DIPP JS

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It’s all in the family: The incoming Joint Secretary (JS) of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), is going to be Anjali Prasad, who also happens to be the wife of the outgoing JS, N N Prasad. A comment on an earlier post on the 50 most influential people in IP led us to a blog appropriately named Babus of India from where the note was lifted. Apologies for the slight delay in reporting this, but I was

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PCT v. 2.0 on the anvil?

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WIPO intends to impose a “Global Patenting Regime” on the developing world, on behalf of big pharma and developed countries, if this editorial by KG Narendranath in Economic Times and this note in Pharmabiz are anything to go by. Or does it? A Madrid System for Patents “The WIPO plan is to institute a system similar to the one that exists for international registration of Trade Marks under the Madrid System… With the approval of Global Patenting at the General

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Government to introduce a whistle blower scheme in a bid to counter spurious drugs

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The Union Health Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad has proposed, in Parliament, a whistle blower scheme for all those informants who volunteer with information on spurious or counterfeit drugs. According to the policy a maximum of 20% of the total cost of consignments will be payable to the informant provided that the total compensation does not breach a ceiling of Rs. 25 lakhs. Even government officials can claim rewards under this new policy. Kudos to the Government of India for

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Guest Post: A critical analysis of the Indian Policy on seeds – Bane or Boon?

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We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Nirajan Man Singh & Sheja Ehtesham, both of whom will be graduating from NALSAR this weekend. Their post deals with the Seed Act, 2004 which is scheduled to be tabled in Parliament amidst severe opposition from farmer associations. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INDIAN POLICY ON SEEDS – BANE OR BOON?India is predominantly an agricultural country. 31% of its GDP comes from agriculture and around 64% of its labour force

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Glasgow Wants Protection for Chicken Tikka Masala

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After calls for a GI for Birmingham’s Balti dishes on which Sumathi had blogged early last month, it is now chicken tikka masala’s turn. According to the Financial Times, an MP from UK’s Labour Party, Mohammed Sarwar, has asked for a European Union protection in the form of a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) to be granted to the dish as a “Glasgow Recipe”. He claims the dish was created in Glasgow’s Shish Mahal restaurant in the 1970s (Wikipedia too

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Guest Post: Is OSHO a Trademark – Osho Friends to the Rescue

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We bring you a guest post on controversial case of the Osho trademark, as decided by the Trademark Trial and Appellate Board (TTAB) in the US. You will recall our previous posts on the frequently coinciding paths of the sacred and the profane in IP, which you can sample here, here and here. Today’s post is in continuation of the same, and draws attention to the detailed discussion by the TTAB on whether or not OSHO could be regarded as

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The Fate of the Rosiglitazone Patents: Far From Rosy?

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Recently, a colleague of mine asserted that till date, GSK had obtained only one pharmaceutical product patent in India! Given that GSK has the largest sales in India (of all the MNC’s operating within India) and have introduced most of their global products in India as well, this figure seems a tad too difficult to believe. Anyone in the know from amongst our readers? And with this puzzling statistic, which if true, could raise some very interesting questions about the

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