IPR Amicus

IPR Amicus covers the developments in the laws relating to intellectual property rights, covering Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Designs, Plant Varity Protection and Geographical Indications. This newsletter includes authored 'Article(s)' on relevant topics of current interest, 'Statute Update' on different legislative changes, ‘Ratio decidendi’ covering selected decisions of High Courts, Supreme Court of India and various other foreign courts, and ‘News Nuggets’ highlighting other important developments in this area of law.

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IPR Amicus: December 2015
IPR Amicus of December 2015 covers an article on Divisional Applications for patents. It is opined that there is no settled jurisprudence that a divisional application can be filed only based on the invention claimed in the parent application.
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IPR Amicus: November 2015
IPR Amicus, November, 2015 covers an article ‘Slogans - An issue of descriptiveness’. This article discusses about the difficulty in getting trademark protection for slogans as it is often accompanied by one particular hurdle of retaining exclusivity, which results from their descriptive nature.
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IPR Amicus: October 2015
Article in this October 2015 issue of the IPR Amicus discusses recent Delhi High Court Judgement granting permanent injunction in the case involving patented diabetics drug.
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IPR Amicus: September 2015
IPR Amicus, September, 2015 covers an article titled ‘Software inventions - Examining patentability’. This article discuss about recently issued version of the Guidelines by Indian Patent Office for Examination of Computer Related Inventions. Ratio Decidendi secti
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IPR Amicus: August 2015
IPR Amicus, August, 2015 covers an article titled ‘Make in India meets the Biological Diversity Act’. This article explains about the nation-wide initiative of the Government of India launched in September 2014. It also analyses the importance of having harmonization among the wo
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IPR Amicus: July 2015
IPR Amicus, July, 2015 covers an article on ‘Separation of rights under copyright & design laws’. This article explains that protection available to artistic work under Designs Act and Copyrights Act are different, and considering the inherent overlapping, one should opt carefully for
Read More 01 Jul 2015
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IPR Amicus: June 2015
The article in IPR Amicus, June, 2015 on law of disparagement, comparative advertising and acceptable competitive behaviour as regards trademark discusses the meaning of disparagement and the extent to which the comparing is allowed in advertising of products keeping in mind the fairness
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IPR Amicus: May 2015
The Article Section of IPR Amicus, May, 2015 discusses the initiative of government in promoting the Digital India project and issues like copyright, use of Open Source Software (OSS) and underlines the need for the cohesive policy platform to realize the dream of Digital India. R
Read More 01 May 2015
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IPR Amicus: April 2015
The Article section of IPR Amicus April, 2015 contains a discussion on the Central Government guidelines for implementation of International Treaty on plant genetic resources under Multi Lateral System for food and agriculture. The Ratio Decidendi section covers the Delhi
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IPR Amicus: March 2015
Article in this month’s IPR Amicus discusses elaborately the draft National IPR Policy released recently by the IPR Think Tank. According to the author, while the draft policy is a step in the right direction, the challenge lies in implementing its objectives within a realistic timefra
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IPR Amicus: February 2015
Article in this issue of IPR Amicus discusses at length process patent litigation in the pharma sector. The author notes that it will be interesting to see if courts continue to employ intermediates as the criteria or if parties are able to convince the courts of other parameters to ascertai
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IPR Amicus: January 2015
An overview of Design registration in India is provided by the Article in this January 2015 issue of IPR Amicus.
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