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Analysis of February 2024 Delhi High Court Judgment in InterDigital v. Oppo – I
I provided an overview of the 21 February 2024 Delhi High Court judgment in the earlier post . I will analyse the judgment in this...
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Indian Patent Office Puts out 1532 Orders in One Day!
How many Controller decisions are given in one day? Following a curious post by Sandeep Rathod on LinkedIn noting that a whopping 1500+ patent...
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Workshop on Patent Oppositions in the Pharmaceutical Field [Kochi, April 26-30]
We are pleased to announce that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are jointly organizing a...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Error 404! DHC addresses the Out-of-Order Condition of Trademark Registry’s Website
The troubles for the Office of the Controller General of Patent, Designs, and Trade Mark (CGPDTM) just don’t seem to end anytime soon. In...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Supreme Court Grants Booking.com Permission to Use ‘MakeMyTrip’ as Google Adword – Looking Beyond the 3-Line Order
Image from here [ This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta. Aarav is a third-year law student at National Law...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: Book on Patent Law by DHC Justice Prathiba M Singh Launched
Having started back in 2015 , Delhi High Court judge Justice Prathiba M. Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts including a post discussing the concept of hot...
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Imputing Bad Faith in Trademark Infringement Disputes: Analysing DHC Nova v. Novya Judgement
[ This post has been authored by SpicyIP Intern Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in...
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Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in High-Stakes Patent Infringement Case
Image from here “The judge is not a rustic who has chosen to play a game of Three Card Trick. He is not fair game. Nor is the...
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A Case of Reverse Passing Off: DHC Rules In Favour Of Western Digital On Trademark Infringement
On 26 February 2024, the Delhi High Court (DHC) in Western Digital Technologies Inc & Anr vs Geonix International Private Limited ,...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: The Competition Act v. The Patent Act: Catch 22
The Supreme Court last week issued notice on a special leave petition filed by the Competition Commission of India(CCI) against...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 26- March 3)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 6 posts including a post on the PAC Chairperson’s...
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PAC Chairperson Demands Probe by Chief Vigilance Commission Into Corruption Allegations Against CGPDTM!
Image from here “Out of the frying pan, into the fire” seems to sum up the current predicament of the Office of the Controller General...
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Navigating Denied Filings: Trademark Justice at the Crossroads of the Commercial Courts Act
[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in understanding...
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Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)
Image from here Welcome back to the “ Sifting Through SpicyIP Pages ” series! This time, I have journeyed through the pages...
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Announcing the Inaugural SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow!
SpicyIP Doctoral Fellow Malobika Sen Our readers would have noticed that since November 2023, we have been publishing hard hitting,...
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Arthrogen v. Controller Gen of Patents: The DHC’s Dilemma of Identifying the Method of Treatment under Section 3(i) of the Patent Act
On 5th Feb, a Single Bench (SB) of the Delhi High Court (DHC) overturned a previous order by the Controller General of Patents that had...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 19- February 25)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts on the MHC’s interpretation of Section 3(d)...
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SpicyIP Tibdit: Delhi High Court directs Oppo to make interim deposit in InterDigital v. Oppo proceedings
By judgment dated 21 February 2024 , the Delhi High Court ordered Oppo to deposit an undisclosed sum as pro tem deposit (interim deposit) with...
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Product-by-Process claim: DHC to the rescue
Image from here The Delhi High Court (DHC) judgement in Vifor (International) Ltd. v. MSN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. ,explaining and...
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Legislative Oversight? Addressing the High Court Jurisdiction Vacuum Post-IPAB vis-a-vis Cancellation Petitions under the Trademark Act
Recently, the Delhi High Court referred 3 questions regarding the jurisdiction of a High Court to hear trademark rectification applications, to...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 12- February 18)
Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments. Last week we published 3 posts on the E&Y’s report on music publishing in India, MHC’s...
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‘Non’-Pharmaceutical Substance and Efficacy under Sec 3(d)
Can Section 3(d) be applied to a non pharmaceutical invention? The MHC in Novozymes v. Asst. Controller of Patents and Designs made some...
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SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Launches Open House Helpdesk Portal
Image from here In a welcome development, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM) launched the...
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E&Y Report on The Rise of Music Publishing India: Reflections from an IPR Perspective
Every year, a diverse community of over 40,000 music creators in India produces a remarkable 20,000 to 25,000 original songs! This sector...