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SpicyIP Tidbits: WHO and DCGI- A Sweet-Sour Relationship

September 04, 2008 12:55

In what seems to have become a regular affair, the WHO has “has objected to the practice of Indian pharmaceutical companies misusing international non-proprietary names (INN) as trademark protected brand names.” If newspaper reports are to be believed…:“In a recent letter to the Drugs Controller...

The OOXML standard: a paper tiger?

June 15, 2008 11:23

The standards debate over the preferred international document format has been ongoing for months now. The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has officially put on hold the certification of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML), after registering appeals from India, Brazil, South...

Hari Puttar: Reviewing the movie and the judgment

Prashant Reddy
September 30, 2008 13:04

The movie reviews of ‘Hari Puttar’ are still flowing in and trust me they aren’t very flattering towards the movie. CNN-IBN’s Masand apparently couldn’t even sit through the first half because it was that bad. Another review from buzz18.com ran the title of the review as ‘Hari Puttar is such crap’....

Ranbaxy and Pfizer Bury the Hatchet.... For Now.

June 20, 2008 13:42

In a bid to sweeten the kitty for Daiichi Sankyo, Ranbaxy has reached an out of Court settlement with Pfizer in the baap of all patent litigations involving latter’s patents on the blockbuster drug, Lipitor bringing to a close a bitter row in 12 countries except Finland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark...

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SpicyIP Announcements: Socio-Legal Review Essay Competition

March 21, 2012 19:33

The Socio-Legal Review, the student edited peer reviewed journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is holding the 2nd Annual SLR Essay Competition.Students from law schools and other undergraduate courses in India and around the world can participate and submit their...

Mayo v. Prometheus: Natural law ++ Significant application ~ Patent

March 21, 2012 18:57

The United States (US) Supreme Court recently invalidated an extremely broad patent, allowed by the Federal Circuit (CAFC), covering a method for determining the proper dose of a drug used to treat autoimmune disorders.  We had previously, in a guest post by Sooraj Abraham, briefly...

Guest Post: Madras High Court overrules IPAB on 'Rhizome Imperial Gold'

March 21, 2012 07:24

Arun C. Mohan, a practising IP lawyer before the Madras High Court has sent us this interesting post regarding the mark 'Rhizome's Imperial Gold' which was under litigation before the IPAB and subsequently the Madras High Court. This is yet another judgement in the long-running litigation in India...

Incentivising Diseases?

March 20, 2012 23:32

Image from hereIn the recent post on India’s first post TRIPS era compulsory license, a comment by Hersh Sewek brought up a very relevant question of how, if at all, this affects the innovation eco-system in India. Shamnad pointed out that very few papers have been written about the effects of such...

Guest Post: The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the EPO

March 19, 2012 21:14

Tufty the Cat, who is qualified as a U.K. and European patent attorney and who maintains a blog by the same name, accessible over here has written for us this interesting guest post on the veracity of the several claims made by TKDL. Tufty had earlier left a comment on one of my posts questioning...

SpicyIP Tidbits: Iranian Pop Band threatens to sue producers, music directors and distributors of ‘Agent Vinod’ for copyright infringement

March 18, 2012 18:33

A PTI report in DNA has reported that an Iranian band, by the name ‘Barobax Corp’, an underground Iranian Pop band, has served a legal notice on music director Pritam Chakraborthy who has composed the ‘Pyaar Ki Pungi’ song for Saif Ali Khan’s home production – ‘Agent Vinod’, which is due for a...