In an exciting opportunity for young IP enthusiasts to showcase their writing and analytical skills, we’re thrilled to announce the SpicyIP–jhana Blogpost Writing Competition, 2025, organized in collaboration with jhana. As explained here, jhana is a platform and a tool for lawyers, offering access to legal datasets and AI assistants enabling legal research, review, and drafting.
The competition will run for six weeks, starting today and ending on 30th December, during which shortlisted entries will be published on the blog after review by the SpicyIP team. The top three entries will be announced on the blog in early January 2026.
Participants are welcome to write on any topic relevant to the Indian IP landscape that helps foster a more transparent, collaborative, and productive IP/innovation ecosystem for India. All entries must utilise jhana.ai in at least some part of their research for the blogposts they submit, though participants are free to use other research tools and methods alongside it.
Additionally, participants and our readers can make use of a complimentary one-month Pro account on Jhana.ai to deepen and streamline their research by using the following promo code- SPICYIP. The user will have to sign-up at jhana.ai for a free trial and use the code under Account > Plans & Usage > Discount code.
For more details, check out the submission guidelines and other necessary information below:
Eligibility, Submission Guidelines and Rules of the Competition
The competition will be open to students currently enrolled in any LL.B. program across the world, as well as to those who have completed their first law degree in 2025.
Deadline: The competition will run for six weeks from the announcement date, during which entries will be published on the SpicyIP blog as they come in, subject to our editorial and review process. All entries for this competition must be submitted by 11:59 PM IST on 30th December.
Registration: There is no registration fee or registration process for the competition. You may e-mail us your blog post whenever it is ready, within the deadline. All submissions have to be made to contact[at]spicyip[dot]com with the subject line “Submission for SpicyIP-jhana Blogpost Writing Competition 2025”.
Co-authorship: Only single-author submissions will be accepted for the competition. A submission cannot have two or more authors. Submissions with more than one author will not be considered.
Using jhana.ai for Research:
- Participants must sign up for jhana.ai and use it in at least some part of their research for their blog post. You are welcome to use other research tools and methods as well; jhana.ai need not be your exclusive research tool.
- Participants, along with other SpicyIP readers, are eligible for a one-month Pro account using the following promotional code- SPICYIP. The user will have to sign-up at jhana.ai for a free trial and use the code under Account > Plans & Usage > Discount code.
Important: You must submit your competition entry to SpicyIP from the same email address that you used to register with jhana.ai. Entries submitted from different email addresses will be considered as regular guest-blog submissions, but will not be considered for this competition.
Blog post Guidelines: All entries must follow our Guest Post Guidelines, barring point 12’s requirement regarding the subject line for the email submission. The subject line for blog posts submitted for this competition should specifically mention this competition, as described above.
All guest posts eligible for publication (i.e., regardless of this competition) will be published as per the usual course. The winning entries for this competition will be selected from the eligible entries that are published on the blog.
Prizes for Winning Submissions
Aside from getting published on the blog, the winning blog posts will receive the following additional prizes:
- First prize: INR 15,000
- Second prize: INR 10,000
- Third prize: INR 8,000
Evaluation Criteria:
All submissions will be evaluated by the SpicyIP team using our standard editorial criteria. Once it is confirmed by jhana.ai that participants have used jhana.ai for their research, eligible submissions will be assessed based on:
- Topical relevance/Choice of topic
- Research skills
- Analytical skills
- Grammar, lucidity, and language skills
- Logical flow, coherence, and structure
- Creativity
The SpicyIP team’s decision on the winning entries will be final.
SpicyIP team members’ posts will not be considered for this competition.
Contact Information:
In case of any doubts, queries, clarifications, or confusions with regards to the guidelines or generally about the competition, please write to us at: Contact[at]spicyip[dot]com.
For any sign-up or login issues with jhana.ai, participants can reach out to them on +91 8904129191 and team[at]jhana[dot]ai.