A piece titled the “The Death of Books” sparked off a fiery debate around a proposed amendment to the copyright act. Two of us (leading technology lawyer Rahul Mathan and me) initially...
Aggrieved by what we saw as the establishment of a constitutionally defective IP tribunal (IPAB), we challenged it through a writ petition before the Madras High Court. On the very same day, a writ...
A recent story in the Mint exposes a questionable letter from the US Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke to his Indian counterpart, Anand Sharma, the Hon’ble Minister of Commerce. I extract the...
NUJS is collaborating with Eurasia-Pacific Uninet and other partners is organizing an International Conference on “Constitutional Pluralism: New Challenges for Constitutional Theory” on...
Recently, the Indian Patent Office (IPO) announced the schedule for the next patent agent exam to be held on January 15 and 16, 2011. This exam is the key filter towards the practice of...
I’m pleased to bring you a guest post from Kshitij Malhotra on a topic close to my heart. As Kshitij rightly argues, we need to create more 3 year programs of a quality that matches up to the...
At the start of this year, WIPO (World IP Organisation) commissioned a group of us (under the stewardship of Professor Lionel Bently, the famed Cambridge IP don and co-author of the leading treatise:...
A writ petition was filed recently challenging the legality of the appointment of the current chairman of the Copyright Board, Raghbir Singh. The writ came up before Justice Sikri of the Delhi High...
The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore...
Journal of Indian Law & Society is currently soliciting submissions for its second issue due in December, 2010. The deadline for submissions is October 5, 2010. Please send in your submissions...