Issued in Public Interest: Your Name is Not a Copyrighted Work

/ By / Copyright

Imagine that you randomly shout your friend’s name in the street out of fun, and he remarks, “Voila! You have violated my right to communicate my name to the public!”  That would sound a bit weird, right? Sadly, we live in a world where legal terms that carry heavy conceptual weight get thrown around quite easily.  Copyright is one such term from IP law.  In recent news, I came across (thanks to friends at SpicyIP) multiple reports from news outlets […]

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Rest in IP: Posthumous Personality Rights in the Age of Deepfakes

/ By / Others, Privacy

Generative AI has shown that it can bring the dead back to life digitally. This has led to situations in which the identity of a deceased person has been used and misused. Significant questions have arisen about who gets to control the identity of the deceased, to what extent, and the manner in which it is utilised. In that light, in this submission for the SpicyIP–Jhana Blogpost Writing Competition 2025, Krisha Tiya Sahay argues that the identity of a deceased

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (16.03.2026)

/ By / Courses & Workshops, Opportunities

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: India and the Patent Cooperation Treaty Some bells do not just chime, they redraw the map. This week’s bell is for India’s accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1998, a moment that subtly but significantly reshaped how Indian innovation

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 9 – March 15)

/ By / Copyright, Design, Others, Patent, Trademark

Midway through March, we approach the colourful spring with a post on Pantone’s latest choice for its annual colour of the year! Another post on understanding fair dealing as a component of the copyright system and not the central axis. Can the Patent Office reject a patent application on one ground and decline to analyse the rest in the name of efficiency? Post discussing Bombay High Court’s ruling in JFE Steel Corporation v. Controller of Patents & Designs. Case summaries

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Orange Minds – IPR Lecture Series by CIPAM, DPIIT (16 March 2026 to 10 April 2026)

/ By / Event, Opportunities

From 16 March 2026 to 10 April 2026, Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is conducting an IPR lecture series titled “Orange Minds” to strengthen awareness and understanding of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) among students. For more details, please refer to the announcement below. Orange Minds – IPR Lecture Series by Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

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Deciphering the ‘Bona Fide’ Notes of s. 52(1)(za): Bombay HC’s Recent Order in PPL v Yashraj Satwara

/ By / Copyright

The Indian copyright arena has continued to witness controversy over royalties for songs played during wedding ceremonies and related social events. The root of the tussle between copyright collective management organizations such as PPL and Novex and end users lies in Section 52(1)(za) that exempts works performed or communicated to the public during bona fide religious ceremonies or official ceremonies held by government. The provision, along with the curious explanation (which forms the crux of contentions) is reproduced below: (za)

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[Sponsored] 2026 WIPO – KOREA Advanced International Certificate Course (AICC)
(Apply by April 19, 2026)

/ By / Opportunities, Sponsored

WIPO Academy, the Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP), the Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA), and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are inviting applications for the annual Advanced International Certificate Course (AICC) on Intellectual Property Asset Management for Business Success. Registration for AICC’s IP Panorama 2.0 course is currently open on the KIPO Academy website (kipoacademy.kr) until April 19 (~11:59 p.m. Korea Time). For more details, see their call for applications below:- Register Now: 2026 WIPO – KOREA

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Sufficiency of Disclosure and Patent Rejections

/ By / Patent

Can the Patent Office reject a patent application on one ground and decline to analyse the rest in the name of efficiency? Using the Bombay High Court’s ruling in [Edit: fixed an error in the case name] JFE Steel Corporation v. The Assistant Controller of Patents & Designs, Priyam explores the limits of judicial economy in rejection orders, along with issues relating to insufficient disclosure and foreign prosecution history. Priyam is a 3rd-year student at the National Law School of India

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White Noise: Pantone’s Cloud Dancer, and the Politics of Colour

/ By / Trademark

Pantone’s latest choice for its annual “Colour of the Year,” titled “Cloud Dancer,” a shade of stark white, has triggered an unusually sharp backlash, revealing that colour is never merely aesthetic. In this post, Anjali and Nandita explore how colour, standardisation, and intellectual property intersect to shape taste, power, and ownership. Anjali Tripathi is a final-year B.A. LL.B. student at Jindal Global Law School with an interdisciplinary interest in critical approaches to law, visual storytelling, and design. Nandita Purvi Durgam

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India’s Defining Moment on SEPs: The Supreme Court’s Decision Opens the Door for Policy Leadership

/ By / Patent

The Supreme Court’s disposal of CCI v. Ericsson has triggered significant debate over the respective roles of patent law and competition law in regulating SEPs. Brian Scarpelli explains how this decision creates a crucial policy moment for India to clarify the role of its legal framework in addressing anticompetitive SEP licensing practices. Brian Scarpelli is Senior Global Policy Counsel at ACT | The App Association, where he works on a diversity of legal and policy issues impacting mobile app development

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