Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight has to be our coverage of the leaked final draft (submitted by the think-tank to the Government) of the National IPR Policy. Swaraj broke the news and shared the draft, after which Prashant Reddy proceeded to tear it apart on multiple grounds. He argues that the policy makes vague, non-committal statements in most areas, and sweeping recommendations without reasons in other places. He observes that the document ignores ground realities, such as the…

Highlight of the Week This week’s highlight is Thomas’ two-part post (here and here) on the Ericsson-iBall injunction, in which he provides two layers of analysis – first, he examines the factors upon which the court granted an injunction in the given case; second, he provides a critique of the doctrine of privity of contract under Indian law in its applicability to SEP licensing disputes. On the first count, he finds that the court did not account for the fact…