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SpicyIP Poll: Viva or No Viva for Patent Agent Exam & IIT-M’s Internship Opportunity for 2017 Exam Aspirants

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In our last post on the patent agent exam, we had questioned the credibility of the recently released viva scores and revived the controversy over the constitutionality of the viva exam. We have now initiated an opinion poll on this controversy and would like to know our readers’ views on whether viva voce should be a part of the patent agent exam or not. Those of you who are of the opinion that it should form part of the exam, please tell us whether…


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Trademark

Legalising the IPAB: The Madras High Court Vindicates!

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In an earlier post, we bemoaned the fact that an unconstitutional IPAB continues to surf the IP wave in India, rendering one IP judgment after another, despite being cocooned in a shell of structural illegality. Unfortunately our writ petition questioning all of us continues to languish at the Madras High Court without progress. Ammini Karnan vs IPAB   In a vindication of sorts, a Division Bench of the Madras High Court recently agreed with our assessment and opined that the…


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"Quinn" Poll for Leading Patent Blog: Please Vote

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For those interested, Gene Quinn of IP Watchdog is conducting a poll of the top patent blogs. He has listed 50 leading patent law blogs and is calling for readers to indicate their favourites. SpicyIP is grateful for making this shortlist. Gene’s survey comprises two key questions:i) Which is your favourite blog (only one selection can be made here)ii) Which blogs do you regularly read (multiple selections can be made here) Voting continues till 30 June and the results are…


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Trademark

Warner loses the Hari Puttar plot

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Hari Puttar- A Comedy of Terrors is going through for release finally this Friday, after the Delhi High Court decided against Warner Brothers, hinging its 26-page judgement on the issues of delay in filing the suit, and suppression of facts. We wait to see if Warner appeal against this judgement or not, but meanwhile, for the benefit of our readers, I reproduce substantive paragraphs of the judgement below (as a result of which this post is uncomfortably lengthy). Delay in…


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Copyright

SpicyIP Poll: Does the Name "Hari Puttar" Make You Think of "Harry Potter"?

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I’m assuming that most of our readers are familiar with the Harry Potter vs Hari Puttar controversy before the Delhi High Court. Justice Reva Khetrapal is expected to issue her decision any day now. For those that came in late, do check out Sumathi’s well researched posts on this big ticket litigation, that is expected to delineate the scope of “trademark” rights over movie titles. Prashant also raised a very interesting “free speech” issue in his post here. Article 19(1)…


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