Raj Gandesha, a patent litigation attorney with White and Case, New York, will visit NUJS on the 25th of this month (coming Tuesday) and speak on “Pharmaceutical Innovations: A 3-D Perspective”. The event will be held in Room 006 of NUJS, starting at 4 pm and expecting to finish at 6 pm.
In particular, Raj will discuss a report that he authored on behalf of the US India Business Council (USIBC) on this theme. This report has proved controversial owing to the alleged involvement of Mr Anand Sharma, India’s commerce minister, at a USIBC event where this report was first announced. We had blogged on this controversy earlier here and here.
I hope this will prove a lively session, as I plan to contest some of the findings of this report. I hope you can make it, if you’re free. Attendance is free. But if you plan to attend, please send an email to shouvikkumarguha[at]gmail.com.
In terms of speaker background:
Mr Gandesha represents clients with respect to a wide variety of intellectual property and commercial litigation matters, including complex patent, trade secret, copyright and antitrust litigations. Mr. Gandesha also advises and counsels clients with respect to data protection and privacy issues, including cross-border transfers of personal data, security breach notification issues, Internet and email marketing, and Internet privacy policies. Mr. Gandesha has represented and advised national and multinational clients in the pharmaceutical, oil, telecommunications, IT, consumer health, entertainment and financial services industries.
Education
JD, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 2002
BA, (Hons.), Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Oxford University, 1991
i just wish i could ve made it – it could ve been a lively debate!
however, despite the likely liveliness of the debate, the position will remain unresolved, as basically its a matter of perspective (which is the product of one’s peculair life-experiences/worldview/outlook/ideological schooling) n the guest is not likely to budge from his position (n so would u be; also, so would ve i been). nevertheless, it certainly would have been an interesting episode to watch.
good luck.