SpicyIP Tidbits – No Magnum, More Glivec, Namenda Para IVs, & bio-trade in Namibia

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1. After 15 years, High Court rules, “No use of ‘Magnum’ as trademark”13 Jan 2008, Times of India Allowing a petition filed by cigarette giant ITC, a division bench of Justices S Radhakrishnan and Anoop Mohta recently quashed an order allowing rival GTC Industries to register a trademark for ‘Magnum’. “We are of the view that the word ‘magnum’ is of common usage and purely descriptive,” said the judges. “It can serve as an indication of character or quality or […]

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Candico’s sticky trademark dispute over its ‘Big Bubble’ chewing gum

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The BS reported recently that Candico, the Indian confectionary MNC, lost its long standing trademark dispute with Perfetti – the Italian confectionary major (makers of Mentos) – before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. Candico is one of the largest players in the chewing gum market in India and has been “making millions of children smile”.The trademark dispute started way back in 1998 with a legal notice from Perfetti to Candico, demanding that the company stop using the words ‘The Big

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FICCI Launches IP Newsletter

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Over the last few months, FICCI has been becoming more visible in the IP arena. Perhaps it has something to do with the joining of Akash Taneja (ex NIPO person and noted IP expert) as Executive Director and Sheetal Chopra, as Senior Assistant Director. Their latest offering is a wonderful bimonthly newsletter capturing the latest happenings in the IP world in India. The December issue includes snippets on the Bajaj TVS patent dispute, the Novartis case, the Youtube copyright case

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Moral Rights Under Copyright Laws: A Peep Into Policy – 3

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As promised, here’s more on the right of integrity under Copyright law. I start the discussion from a slightly dated article referred to in the first post in this series. Mira T Sundara Rajan discusses the right of integrity in her article “Moral Rights in the Public Domain: Copyright Matters in the Works of Indian National Poet C Subramania Bharati” 2001 SING. J. LEGAL STUD. 161. The article discusses the dilemma faced by the Indian government when it realized the

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SpicyIP Jobs: Research Assistance on Pharma Data for LSE Professor

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An exciting research assistant offer from Prof Ken Shadlen of the LSE, who is known for his excellent scholarship on the politics of IP, particularly in relation to generic companies, ARV supplies etc. He wishes to hire a research assistant who can help with collecting data on ARV drug supplies, speciality generics from India etc. If you’re interested, please write to him at [email protected]>. Please send him your resume and contact details as well.

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Will India Become the New Vanguard of the Open Source Movement

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1. Knowledge@Wharton, an excellent online business journal from Wharton business school has this very interesting article on how “open source” may help make Indian software companies more competitive. SpicyIP has in several earlier posts wondered why Indian software companies never really made the transition from “services” to “products”. This article advocates that Indian software companies should gear more towards open source, as these are more “service” oriented. And this may help Indian companies gain a competitive edge. Anyway, for full

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The Bajaj-TVS Patent Dispute: India Plugging Ahead on the Patent Litigation Highway!!

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Just after we reported on the Bilcare litigation, there is news of more sparks flying, as the Bajaj patent dispute (concerning patented spark plugs) makes it to the Supreme Court of India. And more exciting to our pharma afficionados, threat of an imminent suit against CIPLA by Roche over an anticancer drug (as reported in the Mint). We will however report on this Roche -CIPLA duel in our next post. Exciting times ahead!! The number of patent cases seem to

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Bilcare: Patent Office Gives the Delhi High Court the Bird?

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Money control reports that the Controller of Patents recently upheld Bilcare’s Patent in a post grant oppn proceeding. Here is an excerpt: “The Controller of Patents pronounced its decision of dismissing the two oppositions against Bilcare‘s (patent no 197823) on Metallized Packaging Films and uphold the validity of the said patent. The judgment was pronounced after multiple hearings from Mumbai Patent office and the Assistant Controller of Patents stated :”In view of my findings as above after careful consideration of

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SpicyIP Jobs–patent posn in Infosys BPO, dubai teaching job and inhouse counsel at luxor

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We would request that when you are writing to the concerned people (whose emails are shown below), please mention that you are coming via SpicyIP (as a favour to us–if you think this is a valuable service that we provide). At the very least, they will know that you are upto date on IP matters 🙂 It will only do you good…..Thanks very much in advance. 1. Senior Patent Attorney and Junior Patent Attorney Required at an Infosys BPO: Ritivik

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Arogyapacha: A "Green" Approach to Pharmaceutical Innovation

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Happy New Year to all of you. We thank you all for your readership and for the outstanding support in all our causes last year. There will be plenty more coming in this year! What better way to start the “new” year than by focusing on the “old”. In one of my earliest posts on the blog (in 2005, when sheer boredom prompted me to dabble with a blog) I had committed to bringing you an update on a famous

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