When Reputation Travels but Goods Do Not: The Delhi HC on Transborder Reputation in the ‘Whistler’ Dispute

/ By / Trademark

The Delhi High Court has once again weighed in on the evolving doctrine of transborder reputation, this time in a dispute over the mark ‘Whistler’ between an Irish whiskey producer and an Indian liquor company. In this post, Vikram Raj Nanda examines how the Court reaffirmed the territoriality principle, the evidentiary threshold it set for proving transborder reputation in the digital age, and what this could mean for future trademark disputes. Vikram is a third-year student at National Law School […]

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How Telegram Imports Copyright Doctrine Into Public Law

/ By / Copyright

The Delhi High Court’s recent decision upholding the temporary nationwide blocking of Telegram may appear to be a public-order case. Yet, beneath the surface, it imports a deeper logic from copyright enforcement jurisprudence: that a platform’s architecture can itself justify expansive regulatory intervention. In this post, Anushka Aggarwal examines the emergence of “architectural liability” and its implications for intermediary regulation. Anushka is a fifth year student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She would like to add

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SpicyIP Summer School 2026 Starts Tomorrow!

/ By / Opportunities

We are extremely excited to announce that the 2026 edition of the SpicyIP Summer School begins tomorrow. The programme will start by taking participants through a deep dive into the “Pharma Stack”, where they will be introduced to intellectual property not in subject-centred silos, but as a set of strategic tools wielded by different actors. Building on the analytical approaches and reflexes developed through this deep dive, participants will then explore four other domains through the lens of our theme,

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SpicyIP Tidbit: PPL Registered as a Copyright Society for Sound Recordings

/ By / Copyright

[This post is authored by Nilisa Majumder. Nilisa is a third-year student at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She has a keen interest in Intellectual Property Law, Public International Law, and Corporate Law.] On 11 June 2026 the Registrar of Copyrights registered Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) as a copyright society for sound recordings (here). The registration is under Section 33(3) of the Copyright Act, 1957, and comes on a Form X certificate. This development comes after

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India–Brazil TKDL Access Collaboration: The Next Phase of Global Biodiplomacy?

/ By / Biological Diversity, Traditional Knowledge

The recent collaboration between India’s CSIR and Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) on access to the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) marks an important development in the evolving governance of traditional knowledge and biodiversity. While framed as a patent examination initiative, Achyuth B Nandan explains that the agreement may have implications extending far beyond prior-art searches, particularly for disclosure obligations, user-country compliance, and the emerging architecture of global GRATK governance. Achyuth is a PhD candidate at Rajiv Gandhi

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The Copyright Reversion Right India Refused

/ By / Copyright

While reading the historical debates leading to the passing of the first post-independence Copyright Act in India, I came across some interesting passages that are relevant to a debate on a theme that seems to have lost its place in Indian Copyright jurisprudence – the Reversionary Right. On 14 May 1957, during the Rajya Sabha’s debate on the Bill that became the Copyright Act, Professor A. R. Wadia recorded his surprise that clause 18 of the Bill as introduced in

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SpicyIP Bells & Whistles: IP Events and Opportunities (15.06.2026)

/ By / Courses & Workshops, Opportunities

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve also brought together a selection of events and opportunities from across the IP ecosystem for the week ahead. Bell of the Week: The Open Source Hardware Association   Some bells do not just share ideas, they share the blueprints.   This week’s bell is for the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), an organisation that has a simple yet transformative idea: innovation can be shared not only through words, code and research,

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 8-June 14)

/ By / Copyright, Patent, Trademark

A three-pass funnel for patent searches and NLUJ’s call for papers for the latest volume of the Journal of Intellectual Property Studies feature in this edition of the SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment and let us know. [Sponsored] 300 to 30 to 5: A Three-Pass Funnel for Patent Searches Under Deadline Finding relevant patents is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is deciding which of the hundreds of relevant records actually matter and

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[Sponsored] 300 to 30 to 5: A Three-Pass Funnel for Patent Searches Under Deadline

/ By / Patent, Sponsored

Finding relevant patents is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is deciding which of the hundreds of relevant records actually matter and doing so before the deadline arrives. This post by PatSeer explores a structured approach to moving from large result sets to a focused, defensible shortlist. The workflow described here draws on features available within PatSeer’s patent intelligence platform, including Ask & Refine, AI Summaries, and PatAssist. [Sponsored] 300 to 30 to 5: A Three-Pass Funnel for Patent Searches

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Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume X, Issue II (Submit by July 15, 2026)

/ By / Opportunities

National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies (JIPS) is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue (Volume X, Issue II). The last date for submissions is July 15, 2026. For further details, please read the journal’s call for papers below: Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Volume X, Issue II (Submit by July 15, 2026) About the Organisation/Institution: National Law University-Jodhpur (NLU Jodhpur) is one of India’s leading Law Schools situated in

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