Bollywood warned about Button remake

US media giants, Warner Bros, have warned Bollywood against any attempts at remaking one of their latest hits “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” through a public notice in the Times of India newspaper and various Trade Magazines. “Recent press reports have indicated that certain parties are in the process of producing a film in Hindi based upon the aforementioned film,”A lawsuit will be slapped on anyone producing a film “either in English or Hindi or other language, having a […]

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EU-India FTA Negotiations continue : Details… Unknown.

An agreement between the European Union and India slated to cover many areas including trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property rights, competition policy, government procurement etc. Sounds promising? Except the details of the same remain largely unknown. Begun in 2007, the EU-India rounds of negotiation to establish a Free Trade Agreement between the two, aims to have far reaching consequences in the way the trade is carried out. However, there have been several gaping holes in the proper

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Software Copyright Raids: Striking an Optimal Balance

A. Introduction In two previous posts, we discussed the issue of software raids from two different perspectives. One from the point of view of a raided party, to whom such raids are often inequitable, and the other from the point of a view of an IP enforcer, to whom speedy enforcement is absolutely essential for protecting their valuable IP rights. In a previous post, I promised that we we would run a future post “synthesizing some of the more recent

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GREEN BRANDING – CASHING IN ON THE ECO-MARKET

WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system. The WIPO Magazine, a bimonthly Magazine issued by WIPO (isn’t that a guess!) aims to inform readers about WIPO-led activities, and to show intellectual property, creativity and innovation at work across the world. Thus, the magazine features selected initiatives, policies, meetings, and other activities that have an impact WIPO’s work and the work of the

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Ensuring Transparent Functioning: Functioning of Patent Offices to be revamped

Our readers will remember that the Mint and subsequently this blogger had not so long ago reported on alleged bias and corruption that ruled rampant in the Patent Offices across the country. It seems that those reports in fact made an impact! Announcing that the patent offices are now changing the process of examining applications, one of the Controller General of Patent, Design and Trademark (wishing to remain anonymous until an official order was released) further stated to the Mint

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Another Bajaj-TVS Showdown in the Offing?

Readers may recall SpicyIP had extensively reported on Bajaj-TVS twin spark plug controversy around the same time early last year. It appears we will have more meat to chew on this year on a different technology but involving the two auto giants again. Yesterday it was reported in the Business Line that Bajaj was granted a patent 231498 dated March 5, 2009 by the Indian Patent office for its ‘ExhausTEC’ invention”. The press release issued by Bajaj states that ExhausTEC

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Placing Software Piracy Raids in Perspective: A Response by the BSA

Our last post on software raids elicited some very interesting responses. The post was an attempt to highlight the various inequities inherent in some intellectual property raids. No doubt some of these inequities can be easily addressed by courts that could, whilst granting the order to raid premises and collect evidence, ensure that the business of the raided party is not drastically impacted and that such party is not put to undue losses. We plan to run a future post

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THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO OFFSHORING PATENT SERVICES TO INDIA

Research and Markets, one of the world’s largest research resources, has recently released a guide to Offshoring Patent Services to India. The report gives an exhaustive account of the Indian patent services offshoring industry, and deals with topics ranging from the present market players and future growth figures. The report, first of its kind on the Indian market, provides an in-depth analysis of the buyer market as well as the Indian vendor space along. Based on secondary data as well

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A few updates on Global IP

Seizures on Drug Consignments At the recent WTO TRIPS meeting, India and Brazil, along with 9 other developing countries strongly criticised the EU for its attitude towards generic medicines in transit between developing countries. On 26th of March, Indian officials said that they will be ready to drag Brussels to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if they do not change their stance on allowing Indian drugs transit through EU customs even after their bilateral negotiations. In previous posts, we have

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Ghost Post on IP (Software) Raids: Court Sponsored Extortion?

In a first of its kind for SpicyIP, we bring you a “ghost-post”, a term that we use to refer to a post by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Interestingly, I met this certain someone (“X”) during my years in active IP practice. We had raided a small firm accused of software piracy and X was the defendant’s counsel. It was perhaps one of the last software piracy raids that I ever did–as it left a bad taste in

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