Spicy IP Weekly Review: 4th Week of April, 2013

Image from hereThe weekly review starts with a post by Gopika on the UK Supreme Court decision in Public Relations Consultants Association Limited v. The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited, a case that dealt with whether copyright infringement proceedings could be brought against internet users for merely viewing copyrighted content on a website if they did not have a license from the owners of the copyright. The five judge bench unanimously held...

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Guest Post: A look at the new notice and takedown regime under the Copyright Rules, 2013

Chaitanya, a Stanford law student, who has previously blogged for us over here, has written for us this very interesting post analysing the safe-harbour provision under the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012, the Copyright Rules, 2013 and has also contrasted it to the safe harbour provisions under the DMCA in American law. As Chaitanya concludes, it is a pity that the Government lost this opportunity to firm up the safe harbour provision for intermediaries...

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The patent litigation bug bites Indian pharma companies: Symed sues Glenmark

Image from hereIn a sign of yet more litigation between Indian pharmaceutical companies, the Hyderabad based Symed Labs Ltd., represented by Fidus Law Chambers has sued the Mumbai based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Laboratories before the Delhi High Court for allegedly infringing two of its patents: 213062 & 213063. The ‘062 patent was granted for “Novel intermediates for linezolid and related compounds” while the ‘063 patent was granted for “A novel...

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DU Copyright Controversy continues: Media joins the Fray

Image from hereThe readers of Spicy IP may be interested to know of the manner in which what had started off as a brief spark in the Indian copyright scenario is fast being stoked into a raging fire all over the country and beyond. No prize for guessing as such, I am of course referring to the Delhi University photocopy controversy. On the off-chance that a reader is getting to know of the incident for the first time, the previous posts describing...

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SPICY IP TIDBIT: IPAB reverts “DARJEELING LOUNGE” matter to Registrar

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SpicyIP Tidbit: SC stays release of Zanjeer 2.0

Image from hereAs blogged about here, the Bombay HC had allowed Amit Mehra to go ahead with the production and release of the remade Zanjeer. Against this order, an SLP was filed by Sumeet and Puneet Mehra. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ordered a stay on the release of the film. It appears from this report, that the order of stay will continue till the arbitration between the two parties is completed. The court also directed the arbitrator to expedite...

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Hindu-Microsoft spar over AICTE story

Earlier this week, Hindu reported on how “Come June 30, over 80 lakh college students all over India would have little choice but to use Microsoft Office 365 in their college computers, locked by a government contract that may well be more expensive than the use of an open source equivalent in the long run.” The report then claimed “The decision by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) will limit engineering students to a particular product at a time when their exposure should be widened, say experts. It also forces college...

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