Author name: Prashant Reddy

T. Prashant Reddy graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a B.A.LLB (Hons.) degree in 2008. He later graduated with a LLM degree (Law, Science & Technology) from the Stanford Law School in 2013. Prashant has worked with law firms in Delhi and in academia in India and Singapore. He is also co-author of the book Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas (OUP).

Guest Post: A response to the IPKat’s "despair" by Siva Thambisetty

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Image from here It appears that Darren’s guest post has got the ball rolling with not only a healthy debate in the comments section to his post but also in the form of this guest post in response by Siva Thambisetty. Siva is an alumna of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the University of Oxford. She is currently a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she teaches and writes on patent […]

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Guest Post: A quick update on Viacom v. YouTube

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On April 18, 2013 a U.S. District Court delivered Google yet another victory in its long running litigation against Viacom over the alleged copyright infringement caused by You-Tube. We have below for our readers an excellent summary of the judgement by Chaitanya from the Stanford Law School, who has previously blogged for us over here and here.  A quick update on Viacom v. YouTube by Chaitanya Ramachandran Image from here In what is being hailed an a victory for operators

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Guest Post: The IPKat’s "despair" with the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Novartis-Glivec case

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Last week, I read this highly critical post by Darren Smyth, on the fantastic IPKat blog, where he takes apart  some of the analysis in the Supreme Court’s judgement denying Novartis a patent for Glivec. Darren’s analysis had very accurately identified a significant flaw in the judgement and let’s just say that he doesn’t mince his words when he takes to the pen or the keyboard. Since we have had almost no critical commentary on the judgement so far, I

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The Ericsson-Micromax patent litigation: Where is India’s first FRAND litigation headed?

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As our readers may be aware, Ericsson sued Micromax Informatics Ltd. and Mercury Electronics Ltd., a few months ago for allegedly infringing 8 of its telecom patents for a range of wireless technologies, including 3G, AMR and Edge. The Delhi High Court had granted an ex-parte interim injunction on the very first day even before Micromax could receive a legal notice that it had been sued. That order can be accessed over here. Shouvik had blogged about it over here

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The constitutional challenge by film producers to the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012

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As we had blogged earlier, the constitutionality of several provisions of the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 is being challenged by music labels and film producers. We earlier had a guest post by Chaitanya, who explained in detail the petitions filed by T-Series before the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutionality of the statutory and compulsory licensing scheme of the copyrights in the music owned by music labels. In this post, I will (very) briefly explain the constitutional challenges mounted by

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Justice Sridevan’s status report to the Madras High Court on the functioning of the IPAB

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Justice Sridevan, Chairperson, IPAB More than 18 months after filing a report with the Madras High Court exposing the Central Govt.’s apathy towards the functioning of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), Justice Prabha Sridevan, has filed another report with the Madras High Court complaining about the continuing apathy of the Central Government to the DIPP. The report can be accessed over here, the older report can be accessed over here. In any event let’s begin with the good news.

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Job openings at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

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For those of you interesting in legal policy, I’m glad to inform you that my friends at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (VCLP) (Better Laws, Better Governance) formerly known as Pre-Legislative Briefing Service (PLBS), are looking to hire research fellows and interns. The applications can be accessed over here. It pays well and the work is exciting. We had blogged about the earlier avatar i.e. PLBS, over here, which I had co-founded along with the current head of VCLP

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Guest Post: A look at the new notice and takedown regime under the Copyright Rules, 2013

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Chaitanya, a Stanford law student, who has previously blogged for us over here, has written for us this very interesting post analysing the safe-harbour provision under the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012, the Copyright Rules, 2013 and has also contrasted it to the safe harbour provisions under the DMCA in American law. As Chaitanya concludes, it is a pity that the Government lost this opportunity to firm up the safe harbour provision for intermediaries especially since the point is being intensely

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The patent litigation bug bites Indian pharma companies: Symed sues Glenmark

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Image from here In a sign of yet more litigation between Indian pharmaceutical companies, the Hyderabad based Symed Labs Ltd., represented by Fidus Law Chambers has sued the Mumbai based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Laboratories before the Delhi High Court for allegedly infringing two of its patents: 213062 & 213063. The ‘062 patent was granted for “Novel intermediates for linezolid and related compounds” while the ‘063 patent was granted for “A novel process for the preparation of linezolid and related compounds”.  Incidentally,

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Hindu-Microsoft spar over AICTE story

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Earlier this week, Hindu reported on how “Come June 30, over 80 lakh college students all over India would have little choice but to use Microsoft Office 365 in their college computers, locked by a government contract that may well be more expensive than the use of an open source equivalent in the long run.”  The report then claimed “The decision by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) will limit engineering students to a particular product at a

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