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Two MHRD IP Chair Professors axed; Reasons unknown 27 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
In a shocking development, Livelaw reports that as of last month, Professor N.S.Gopalakrishnan has been removed as Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Chair Professor at Cochin University of...
FICCI and The George Washington University, Washington DC announce Certificate Course on US Patent Law and Practice 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and George Washington University, Washington D.C., US are jointly conducting the Certificate course on "United States (US) Patent Law & P...
SpicyIP Tidbit: IPA continues communication with Pfizer over pharma innovation policy disputes 26 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
Readers may remember the posts we did on Pfizer's testimony before the US House of Representatives and the ensuing series of correspondence regarding it. (See here, here and here). While that was part...
SpicyIP Tidbit: GI for Pedana Kalamkari Art Form 25 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Image from here Recently, as The Hindu reports, Pedana Kalamkari art form received GI protection. Members of Vegetable Dye Hand Block Kalamkari Printers’ Welfare Association, Pedana received the regi...
Colgate v Pepsodent: Comparative Advertising 25 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
Image from here Recently, in a case of comparative advertising, the Delhi High Court denied granting an interim injunction against Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) (here). Colgate Palmolive (India) Ltd. ...
SpicyIP Tidbit: Justice KN Basha to be new IPAB chairman 25 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
Justice KN Basha, a recently retired judge from the Madras High Court has been appointed as the new IPAB Chairman, according to the order issued on August 23 by Chandni Raina, the director of the depa...
IPRS complies with new copyright law & decides to collect ringtone royalties – no news about its re-registration from the Copyright Office 25 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
More than a year after the new copyright law came into force we have no news from the Copyright Office on the status of the registration or re-registration of the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPR...
Re-imposing curbs on royalty payments to foreigners 24 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm
Background We had earlier reported that the Indian government, in 2009, waived the requirement of prior government approval in case of payment of royalty by Indian companies to multinational corpora...
Debating the CIS Draft Bill on Privacy: Should this be the way forward for a privacy law in India? 23 Aug 2013 | 01:12 pm
Forbes India has published this interesting article by Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) at Bangalore on the need for private industry to push for strong privacy laws in India...
The BDR compulsory licensing application and the BMS ‘Statements of Working’ 22 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
It has been almost 6 months since BDR Pharmaceuticals filed a compulsory licensing application for the Dastinib patent owned by BMS. We had written about it over here. There has been little news about...
