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).

A Beginner’s Guide to Patent Litigation Before Indian Courts and the Indian Patent Office

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As the pharma patents debate stirs up once again, I anticipate that the news media is once again going to be flooded with reports of Big Pharma & OPPI groaning and moaning about the state of patent laws in this country and maybe even an occasional slight against the Indian judiciary for its alleged bias against pharmaceutical patents and foreign multi-national pharmaceutical companies. In my opinion however atleast part of the problem may lie with the faulty strategies, tactics & […]

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The Prime Minister’s Office enters the ‘Pharma-IPR’ debate

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The Economic Times, the Financial Express and the Business Standard have all carried reports on the fact that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has entered the debate on India’s IPR policy after having a high-powered meeting with the top level management of innovation-led multi-national pharmaceutical companies and lobby groups such as OPPI, Eli Lilly, Novartis, BMS & Pfizer. Apparently the PMO has circulated a note, based on the submissions of OPPI, amongst the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Health &

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Guest Post: Businessworld article on the ‘Charge of the IPR Brigade’

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Mathews George, a final year student at NUJS, who has previously sent in guest posts on a number of issues, has sent us this excellent piece summarizing a well-written Businessworld article on the IPR firms in the country. This is a must read for anybody interested in the Indian IPR scene. The Charge of the IPR Brigade By Mathews George The Businessworld article “The Charge of the IPR Brigade” succinctly traces the trajectory of IP practice in India. It gives

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Copyright Division replies to RTI queries on the qualifications and elgibility of the Chairperson of the Copyright Board

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Late last month we had put out a post informing our readers that we had filed two applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005, questioning the validity of the appointment of the current Chairperson of the Copyright Board. Well, we’ve received the answers to our queries and it appears that our doubts have been confirmed. Before we move onto the replies, I would like to clarify that we do not have any personal axe to grind against the current

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Rajya Sabha passes the Trademark Amendment Bill, 2009 after a spirited debate

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The upper house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, has passed the Trademarks Amendment Bill, 2009, on the 10th of August, 2010 after a relatively spirited debate between the members of the house. The importance of this debate cannot be stressed on enough, especially since the Lok Sabha, the lower house, passed the Bill in five minutes, along with other bills, without any debate whatsoever. In this post, which is going to be a long one, we aim at covering the

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Call for submissions: The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT)

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The Indian Journal of Law and Technology has put out the following ‘call for submissions’. Call for SubmissionsThe Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is an annual law journal published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association, at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. IJLT is the first and only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law. The previous issues of IJLT have featured articles by distinguished

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CLaM: Provisions of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 are up on the CLaM website

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Thanks to the untiring efforts of Sai Vinod Nayani, an enthusiatic third year student at NUJS, a few more provisions of the the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 are now up on the CLAM website. As our readers may remember, Shamnad had introduced the Collaborative Law Making (ClaM) venture in December last year. As he had stated the CLaM Initiative attempts to engineer a shift from “representative” to “direct” democracy by enhancing public participation in the framing of laws. It builds

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Parliamentary Committee on Health tables report on issues relating to availability of generic medicines

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The Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recently, on the 4th of August, placed its 45th Report before both Houses of Parliament. The report titled ‘Issues Relating to Availability of Generic, Generic-Branded and Branded Medicines, their Formulation and Therapeutic Efficacy & Effectiveness‘ covers a number of issues ranging from price control to prescription practices to the buy-out of Indian pharmaceutical companies by foreign capital. It can be accessed over here. Some of the pertinent observations

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Supreme Court bats away Bayer-Cipla case to the 30th of November, 2010

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The Bayer-Cipla, patent-drug regulatory linkage case which was scheduled to be heard on the 3rd of August, 2010 has now been batted away to the 30th of November, 2010. In the highest traditions of the Bar, one lawyer asked for an adjournment, while the other graciously consented to the same. Earlier on the 13th of April, 2010 the pertinent part of the Supreme Court Order read as follows: The parties are in agreement that the matter may be adjourned to

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What would be a good day to file a suit for patent infringement? Did Bajaj get it right?

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Shamnad recently carried a post on Justice Murlidhar’s judgment in the case of Dr. Snehalata v. UoI. The controversy in that case was as to the ‘date of grant’ of patent. In his order, Justice Murlidhar clarified that a patent is deemed to have been granted on the date when the patent office signed the order granting the patent and not on the date of issuance of the patent certificate. He also mandated that such an order be published on

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