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SpicyIP Interview Series – Carl Malamud on Gandhi, Satyagraha and Open Access in India

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On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 149th birth anniversary, we at SpicyIP celebrate by bringing you a conversation with Mr. Carl Malamud – pioneering web archivist, open access advocate, the founder of PublicResource.org and a satyagrahi on a mission to free knowledge from the restraints imposed by archaic laws, institutions and values. Mr. Malamud has been at the forefront of the fight for better access to public knowledge – having taken on (and won against) various US Government agencies like…


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In Conversation with Priyanka Khimani: Pondering IP, Law & Leadership

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In June last year, I welcomed the news of the Anand and Anand & Khimani merger with the (shared, I’m sure) gut feeling that this was history in the making. I must confess, this gut feeling came armed with the sound of drumroll emanating from somewhere within the folds of my conscience. As luck would have it, I was asked to report the merger on the blog. There was consensus among the team members that when I did report the…


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SpicyIP Interview Series (1): Justice Prabha Sridevan on Life, Laughter and IP

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As promised in our new year post on the relativity of “newness” (and the impending death of the patent system), we bring to you our freshly minted SpicyIP Interview series. And who better to kick this off than the inimitable Justice Prabha Sridevan. She hardly needs an introduction, as her legacy is stamped indelibly on many a fine Indian IP decision (which she penned both as high court judge and later, as the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal[IPAB])….


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SpicyIP Interviews: Artistik License

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  Working hard at protecting the rights of artists and creative entrepreneurs in India, is a dedicated venture called ‘Artistik License’. Artistik License is an interesting new start up that seeks to go to what is really the heart of the IP-incentive system – helping artists and creators. They describe themselves as a legal education and services platform dedicated to addressing the needs and queries of artists and creative entrepreneurs in India. With a strong emphasis on making legal know-how…


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Part II: IPCheckups & Intellectual Ventures: What are they about?

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Part I of this 2 part series covered a discussion with Matthew Rappaport, founder of IPCheckups, a patent analytics firm which is looking to uncover the super secretive patent portfolio of Intellectual Ventures, a company which may be the largest patent holder company in the world.  After speaking with Matthew, I got in touch with Nicholas Gibson, International Marketing Director of Intellectual Ventures. Specifically regarding the IPCheckups project, he gave the company’s official statement. However he was more than happy…


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Part I: IPCheckups & Intellectual Ventures: What are they about?

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Intellectual Ventures (IV) is a private company that is quite often heard about in the IP community.  As per it’s wiki entry, “Intellectual Ventures is a private company notable for being one of the top-five owners of U.S. patents, as of 2011.[1] Its business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these patents to companies. Publicly, it states that a major goal is to assist small inventors against corporations. In practice, much of their revenue comes…


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SpicyIP Interview: Plant Variety Protection in India – in conversation with the PVP Authority Chairperson

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Warning: Long post I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Dr S Nagarajan, the Chairperson of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FR). This interaction was prompted by the realization that SpicyIP has not covered PVP (plant variety protection) in a very long time, and that it would be interesting to update on the activities of the Authority of late, particularly since the opening up of the process of registration for protection last year. It…


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Roche v. Cipla: The ‘Mint’ interviews Roche India’s MD on the recently concluded Tarceva litigation

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The Mint recently carried an interview of Mr. Girish Telang, managing director of Roche Scientific India Pvt Ltd, the Indian unit of Switzerland-based F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Incidentally this interview seems to be one of the few public statements by Roche, in regards, its high profile litigation against Cipla over Tarceva. (We’ve blogged about the Roche v. Cipla litigation here.) SpicyIP however was rather surprised by the re-statement of some facts by Mr. Telang, since all these facts were very…


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SpicyIP Interview with Dr. Samir K Brahmachari

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I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Samir Brahmachari, the new Director General of CSIR. It was a pleasure to see the enthusiasm with which he spoke about his open source drug discovery model and his plans for the growth of CSIR. Given all the media attention that his OSDD has already received, I thought it would be best to dig a little deeper into the model. We provide not just excerpts from his interview, but also excerpts…


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It will mark the coming together of two exquisites: India, the land of Basmati and the Mysore mallige, and Switzerland, home to precision-engineered Swiss watches, are on the threshold of signing a key bilateral where significant focus rests on IPR issues, specifically Geographical Indications (GIs). In recent years, there have been many high-level visits and regular dialogue between the two governments exploring new ways and means to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment.( Economic times) Felix Ador, Chief Legal Officer…


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