MHRD IP Chair in NLU Jodhpur presents IP Roundtable Symposium

Among other contemporary issues, the symposium is going to include specific sessions on topics such as The Intellectual Property Regime for Pharmaceuticals: Contemporary Challenges, Working through Remedies and Exceptions to Patent Rights, Trade and International Intellectual Property, Market Environment, Price Regulation and Competition in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Intellectual Property and Beyond. With a diverse range of speakers consisting of legal and management scholars and economists, judges, practicing attorneys in IPR and Trade law, industry representatives and other stakeholders, the symposium promises to offer a wide variety of food for thought in terms of the matters debated upon.

Following is the detailed schedule for the symposium:

March 17, 2012:

Inaugural Session (9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.)
Welcome: Prof. K. K. Banerjee (Dean- Faculty of Science, and Director, Centre for IP Studies, NLU, Jodhpur)
Inaugural Address: Justice S. Ravindra Bhat (Hon’ble Judge, Delhi High Court)
Presidential Address: Justice N. N. Mathur (Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, NLU, Jodhpur)
Vote of Thanks: Mr. Yogesh Pai (Asst. Prof. of Law & Coordinator: Ministry of HRD Chair on IPR, NLU, Jodhpur)

Session I – The Intellectual Property Regime for Pharmaceuticals: Contemporary Challenges (10:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Chair: Mr. Dilip Shah, Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, Mumbai

• The Post-2005 Patent regime and the Pharma-Biotech Sector: Indian Patent Law and Policy in the Making – Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran, Director, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, Attorneys, New Delhi
• Pharma Patents: Procedural Challenges in Opposition and Revocation Proceedings- Mr. Essenese Obhan, Founding Partner, Obhan & Associates, New Delhi
• The Enduring Enigma of section 3(d): Will the Supreme Court Prune the Evergreen Tree? ­­– Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, Associate, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, New Delhi
• Pharmaceutical Data Exclusivity and Implications for Generic Entry– Mr. Madhukar Sinha, Professor, Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, New Delhi

Session II – Working Through Remedies and Exceptions to Patent Rights (2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.)
Chair: Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, Judge, Delhi High Court

• Limited Exceptions and Compulsory Licenses in Patent Law: Towards a New Jurisprudence for Access to Medicines– K. M. Gopakumar, Legal Advisor, Third World Network, New Delhi
• Pharmaceutical Patent Enforcement: A Developmental Perspective- Prof. Shamnad Basheer, Ministry of HRD Chair on IPR, NUJS, Kolkata

Session- III : Trade and International Intellectual Property (3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
Chair: Mr. Madhukar Sinha, Professor, Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, New Delhi

• The Emerging Paradigm of Global IP Enforcement in FTAs and TRIPS-plus Agreements: Implications for Access to Medicines- Mr. Anand Grover, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Director- Lawyers Collective and the UN Special Rapporteur to the Right to Health
• Defining the Space for Unilateralism under International Intellectual Property Law: The Case of Border Measures Against Goods in Transit- Mr. Shashank P. Kumar, Consultant, New Delhi

March 18, 2012:

Session – IV: Market Environment, Price Regulation and Competition in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)
Chair: Prof. Shamnad Basheer, Ministry of HRD Chair on IPR, NUJS, Kolkata

• The Emerging Market Environment in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector: Indian Generic Industry in the Post-TRIPS World- Prof. Sudip Chaudhuri, IIM, Kolkata
• The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2011- Mr. Dilip Shah, Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, Mumbai
• The IP and Competition Law Interface in the Pharmaceutical Sector– Mr. J. Sai Deepak, Associate, Saikrishna Associates, New Delhi

Session – V: Pharmaceutical Innovation: Intellectual Property and Beyond (11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.)
Chair: K M. Gopakumar, Legal Advisor, Third World Network, New Delhi

• Attempts for an Indian Bayh Dole and Publicly Funded Pharmaceutical Innovation- Prof. Amit Shovon Ray, JNU, New Delhi
• IP and Globalization of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Emerging Concerns for Innovation and Access – Mr. Santhosh M R., Associate Fellow, Centad, New Delhi

Summary of Proceedings and Vote of Thanks (12:50 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.) – Yogesh Pai, Asst. Professor of Law & Coordinator: Ministry of HRD Chair on IPR, NLU, Jodhpur

For further information about the symposium, one can get in touch with the Office of the Ministry of HRD Chair on IPR, NLUJ, Ph: +91-291-5100744, Email: [email protected]

As an aside, a perusal of this schedule will reveal to the followers that Professor Shamnad Basheer himself is going to be a part of the symposium and those followers, who will be in Jodhpur on those days and are yet to meet in person the founding brain behind Spicy IP, can perhaps avail of this opportunity too!