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).

In defence of Justice Dalveer Bhandari

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Let me begin this post by saying that I strongly disagree with the views expressed in the letter asking for Justice Bhandari’s recusal. In my honest opinion, with which some of my co-bloggers disagree, the entire episode has come across as an attempt to persecute an honest judge on the day the matter was supposed to be heard. How else is one to interpret a news report which is titled ‘SC Judge under attack from health activists’? The letter in […]

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Full text of the letter asking for Justice Bhandari’s recusal from the Novartis Glivec dispute

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Below is the full text of the letter, dated 5th September, which was sent to the government asking for Justice Bhandari’s recusal from the Novartis matter. It has been reproduced with the permission of the signatories of the letter. We had blogged about this controversy over here. Let me also clarify that this information is being put up for only informational purposes in order to provoke a wider, more informed debate and I do not endorse the views contained in

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Guest Post: Reliance Entertainment gets yet another ‘John Doe’ order from the Delhi High Court

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I’m pleased to bring to you yet another guest post from our guest blogger – Tania Sarcar a recent graduate from NUJS, Kolkata.       Reliance Entertainment gets yet another ‘John Doe’ order from the Delhi High Court By, Tania Sarcar Reliance Entertainment has recently announced that the Delhi High Court has granted it a ‘John Doe Order’ to prevent the illegal broadcast or streaming of its upcoming film, ‘Bodyguard‘, which stars Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor as the

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A clarification on the ‘single window’ copyright societies

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In my last post I had stated that the amendments to the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 would now allow for only for one copyright society to subsume the functions of both IPRS and PPL. As pointed out in the comments section to my last post, such an interpretation may not be entirely accurate. The amendment would allow IPRS and PPL to continue their businesses separately provided that they re-register themselves. Having said that I don’t think that there is any

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A first look at the ‘Amendments’ to the ‘Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010’

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Thanks to Shamnad, we now have a copy of the ‘Amendments’ being moved by Minister Kapil Sibal to the ‘Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010’. The amendments are accessible over here. Most, though not all, of these amendments are based on the report of the Standing Committee which we have blogged about here. I’ve identified the most important amendments below: (i) The ‘parallel imports’ clause: It had been reported in April of this year that the ministry was thinking of dropping the

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News on ‘intellectual property’ from Parliament

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The much anticipated debate on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 had to be postponed till tomorrow on account of Minister Sibal not being present when the Bill was called out today. The Chairperson has scheduled the debate for tomorrow. The Minister for Law & Justice, Mr. Salmand Khurshid however initiated a discussion, today, on ‘The Commercial Division of High Courts Bill, 2009’. This debate will continue tomorrow. Interestingly the very first intervention made by the Leader of the Opposition Mr.

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Rajya Sabha to vote on radical judicial reforms for high value IP disputes

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The Rajya Sabha is scheduled to debate and vote on the “Commercial Division of High Courts Bill, 2009” on the 29th of August, 2011, after it concludes voting on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010. The Commercial Division of High Courts Bill, 2009 seeks to transfer to the High Courts all high-valued commercial disputes valued at Rs. 5 crores (US $ 1.2 million approx). The ‘radical reform’ that this Bill seeks to bring about is with regard to procedure. The Bill

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Rajya Sabha to debate and vote on the Copyright Amendment Bill tomorrow

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The Rajya Sabha is scheduled to take up the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 on the 28th of August, 2010 i.e. tomorrow for a debate followed by a vote. The ‘List of Business’ available on the website of the Rajya Sabha states that the Government is seeking a debate and voting on 4 Bills tomorrow. The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 is third on the list and if the House is not adjourned tomorrow, it should sail through the voting process. The

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CIC fines CPIO of Trade Marks Registry Rs. 25,000

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One of our readers recently sent us a decision of the Central Information Commission (CIC) in the case of Shri Kamal Kishore Arora v. the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Trade Marks Registry. The case is available for download over here. The Appellants in this case are practicing advocates who had filed applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005 with the Trade Marks Registry requesting for information pertaining to two trademarks. The CPIO had failed to reply

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NGO alleges ‘bio-piracy’ by Monsanto’s Indian subsidiary & its collaborators: True or false?

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Environmental Support Group (ESG), a NGO headquartered at Bangalore has levelled serious charges of violation of India’s Biological Diversity Act (BD Act), against Mahyco, (26% of which is owned by Monsanto) and its collaborators – the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UAS) & Sathguru Management Consultants (P) Ltd., which was acting as a co-ordinator on behalf of USAID and Cornell University. The ESG website accessible over here has done an admirable job of making sure that all the necessary documents

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