SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We aimed to explore SpicyIP’s history, which began in October 2005, ‘from the sprawling cornfields of Illinois, Champaign,’ by our beloved Professor Shamnad Basheer. From this, he went on to problematize the absurdity o f— if and how the Indian Patent Office lacks the ‘free access’ arrangements granted to foreign IP offices.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Coming back to NIA, among other things , the NIA Act also became known for its objective to codify and consolidate the law of confidentiality and trade secrets – something for which there is no specific law in India. Patent Opposition: Navigating SpicyIP’s September pages, I chanced upon a 2009 piece from Prof.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

In Rajeev Kumar vs Jamia Millia Islamia (12th April 2021), an extremely interesting tussle was seen with the copyright over a thesis being pitted against a person’s right to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 21, 2024

Pre-Grant Opposition The first proposal relates to amending the pre-grant opposition mechanism, which allows patent applications to be opposed before the Patent Office officially “grants” the patent. From a policy perspective, pre-grant oppositions are excellent policy.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In her patent application, she claimed that her soup is free from preservatives and artificial additives. All of the above-mentioned instances raise a question “Are the food recipes patentable in India?” The claim of the applicant should not be the one existing in the public domain at the date of filing of an application.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) The October “Flashbacks” are here! Lokesh covers another super interesting round of discussions stemming from SpicyIP’s Octobers (2005-present)! on 6 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The plaintiff filed an interim injunction application against the Defendant no.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It also noted that the public statements of Archer’s senior officers were ambiguous and not necessarily conclusive that confidential information of Wisk Aero’s was brought by and used by its engineers when they joined Archer and developed its air taxi. As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit explained in Stratienko v. Cordis Corp.,

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