The plaintiff filed an infringement suit against the defendants from using any mark which is identical or deceptively similar to the plaintiff’s word and device mark “BEARDO”. The Court granted ex parte ad interim injunction dated 4 May 2021. The Court directed Amazon (the defendant No. 3) to remove the products
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[This SpicyIP Weekly Review is authored by Kevin Preji. Kevin is a second-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore. His passion lies in understanding the intersection of economics and public health with intellectual property rights. His previous posts can be accessed here.]
After a busy week at the blog, here is our recap of last…
Patent Rules Published: A Quick Look
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On March 15, the Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2024 were published in the Gazette of India, making crucial changes in the Indian patent regime. There will likely be more posts in the coming days that take a deeper look into these Rules. For now, on a quick skim, some of the notable amendments…
Analysis of February 2024 Delhi High Court Judgment in InterDigital v. Oppo – II
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In the given case, the Court refused to accept the bank guarantee issued by HSBC-Paris – since it does not fall within the jurisdiction of Delhi High Court. HSBC-India declined to confirm the bank guarantee citing that HSBC-India and HSBC-Paris are technically two different entities (para 22).
My understanding is, the guarantee issued…
Analysis of February 2024 Delhi High Court Judgment in InterDigital v. Oppo – I
I provided an overview of the 21 February 2024 Delhi High Court judgment in the earlier post. I will analyse the judgment in this series.
Broadly speaking, I am unable to agree with the concept of providing an interim deposit when there is a clear timeline in place for completing the trial. The award…
Indian Patent Office Puts out 1532 Orders in One Day!
How many Controller decisions are given in one day? Following a curious post by Sandeep Rathod on LinkedIn noting that a whopping 1500+ patent decisions, perhaps the largest ever in a single day, were put out yesterday, we took a quick look at the information available to see for ourselves. It looks like there’s been…
Workshop on Patent Oppositions in the Pharmaceutical Field [Kochi, April 26-30]
We are pleased to announce that the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies (IUCIPRS), CUSAT, and Third World Network are jointly organizing a workshop on ‘Patent Opposition in the Pharmaceutical Field’ between April 26-30, 2024. The last date to apply for the workshop is March 24, 2024. For further details, please read the call for applications below:
Workshop on Patent Oppositions…
SpicyIP Tidbit: Error 404! DHC addresses the Out-of-Order Condition of Trademark Registry’s Website
The troubles for the Office of the Controller General of Patent, Designs, and Trade Mark (CGPDTM) just don’t seem to end anytime soon. In yet another “out of the frying pan and into the fire” situation for the CGPDTM, after the corruption allegation (covered here), the Delhi High Court passed an order on 7…
SpicyIP Tidbit: Supreme Court Grants Booking.com Permission to Use ‘MakeMyTrip’ as Google Adword – Looking Beyond the 3-Line Order
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[This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta. Aarav is a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. He is passionate about geopolitics, foreign policy, international trade, and intellectual property and spends his time reading and watching sports.]
The very anticipated Google AdWords case has reached a significant juncture in the Supreme…
SpicyIP Tidbit: Book on Patent Law by DHC Justice Prathiba M Singh Launched
Having started back in 2015, Delhi High Court judge Justice Prathiba M. Singh’s book on Patent Law is finally out. It has been published by Thomson Reuters in two volumes and was launched on 9th March 2024 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Pragati Maidan. Also present were foreign dignitaries, including Annabelle Bennett…