Notes From Doctoral Diary: TACIP, Turku (20 – 21 August 2025) Every once in a while, one happens to be at an academic gathering that feels less like a “conference” and more like a genuine coming together of minds, hearts, and histories. Yes. And TACIP, 2025, held in the strikingly serene city of Turku, in Finland, was one such experience for me. TACIP stands for Technical Assistance as an Enabler of the Constitutionalising of Intellectual Property Norms in Africa. (Quite a mouthful term, isn’t it …?) For context, TACIP is a […]
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[SpicyIP Tidbit] From Travel to Trouble: The Yatra Online vs. Mach Conferences Tussle [The post is authored by Subhalaxmi Mukherjee. Subhalaxmi is a third-year B.Sc LL.B. (Hons.) student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata. She is interested in a wide range of public and commercial law subjects, including intellectual property, gender rights, and international arbitration. Her previous posts can be accessed here.] In a decision delivered on August 22, 2025, the Delhi High Court ruled against Yatra Online (plaintiff), holding that the disputed “Yatra” mark was both generic and […]
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Ruling Puts 11th Circ. At Odds With Bankruptcy Courts While an Eleventh Circuit majority recently found in BenShot v. 2 Monkey Trading and Lucky Shot USA that corporate debtors, like individuals, face certain exceptions to discharge under a nonconsensual Subchapter V plan, the ruling not only reverses the lower court, but opposes the holdings of many other bankruptcy courts, say attorneys at McDermott.
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CoStar Says Copyright Claims Against CREXi Can't Wait CoStar Group Inc. told a California federal court that Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. is continuing to use its copyrighted images and urged the court not to put its infringement claims on hold for the rival listing platform's "makeweight" antitrust counterclaims.
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7 Ways To Fetch Patents In The World Of Working Animals Though developers rarely file patents related to working animals, and animal training techniques are generally considered unpatentable, certain aspects of training and developing animals may be ripe for patent protection, say Matthew Avery at Baker Botts, Makenzi Galvan at Perkins Coie and Lute Yang at Orrick.
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