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Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Many such examples have piled up throughout the years.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 17 – February 23)

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A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. We also have the initiation of our attempt to bring IP conversations to wider audiences through multilingual writing!

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Daniel Alexander KC says "no" on indemnity costs, blanket confidentiality orders and permission to appeal in Oxford University Innovation dispute

The IPKat

In the consequentials hearing judgment [2023] EWHC 138 , the Judge dealt with (1) royalty payments; (2) costs; (3) confidentiality; and (4) permission to appeal. Of the most interesting to this Kat was the treatment of costs (well, some of them), confidentiality and permission to appeal.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 17 – February 23)

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Softgel: The Errors of Comity The Madras High Court accepted a Letter Rogatory from The US District Court in Delaware directing India-based Softgel Healthcare to furnish confidential information to the US Court. The defendants argued that the plaintiffs were engaging in a fishing and roving inquiry into confidential business information.

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Misc. Docket 22-160: Is your (old) appeal on this list?

Patently-O

These records predate the court’s transition to its electronic case management filing system in 2012 and once transferred to the National Archives will remain in only paper format and will not be made available online. The latest appeal was docketed in 2012, and most of the appeals listed were docketed between 2003 and 2010.

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New PatentlyO L.J. Article: The AIA at Ten – How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter?

Patently-O

Stoll, Maintaining Post-Grant Review Estoppel in the America Invents Act: A Call for Legislative Restraint , 2012 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 ( Stoll.2012.estoppel.pdf Bernard Chao, Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court Records , 2011 Patently-O Patent Patent Law Journal 6 ( chao.sealedrecords.pdf ).

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Defending Design Patents

Patently-O

those not filed through the Hague System) are kept confidential and unpublished unless and until they issue as patents. We note that our findings are consistent with what Andrew Torrance found in his 2012 study of design patent litigation. By the mid-1990s, that rate was nearly 80%. But most regular design applications (i.e.,