Author name: Rishabh Mohnot

Thematic Highlight In his latest post on the issue, Rajiv discusses the impact of a recent UK case on Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) litigation. He provides excerpts portions of the judgment that encapsulate the judgment and brief and confines his analysis to the issues of global portfolio licensing and valuation of patents. He also highlights certain flaws in the judgment and concludes by highlighting the disparity in jurisprudence across jurisdictions on royalty payments. Topical Highlights In her guest post, Simrat Kaur

Thematic Highlight Continuing his hard-nosed commentary on the access to bedaquiline in India, Prashant wrote a post on the ethics of early access to the drug. Responding to R. Prasad, who argued that disallowing early access to bedaquiline was unethical, Prashant notes the several nuances that were missed out in the aforementioned piece. He argues that reducing the threshold of testing will allow pharmaceutical companies to push riskier drugs into the market without any responsibility for the consequences. He also

This week on SpicyIP… Mathews wrote a post on the recent Madras HC decision in Kajal Aggarwal v. VVD & Sons. The court held that a producer can exploit a cinematograph film for the statutorily sanctioned 60 years despite a contract to the contrary. Mathews argues that a wiser course of argumentation for the appellants may have been to rely on IP jurisprudence, arguing that reducing the time-period of the copyright to 1 year would improve access for the public,

Thematic Highlight In his guest post, Adarsh Ramanujan argued that there is a hidden indictment of the Aadhar Act in the Justice Sri Krishna Committee Report and its proposal for the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018. He argues that the proposal’s suggestions to make UIDAI’s functioning subject to the proposed Bill, mandating an online-offline verification split and amend Section 29 of the Aadhar Act all indicate that the Report identifies Aadhar as a problem in the data protection regime. Topical

Thematic Highlight In her guest post, Dr. Sunanda Bharti argues that Hall of Nations the Hall of Nations structure is a work of architecture, and therefore, qualifies for protection under the Copyright Act, 1957. She posits that even though the economic rights with respect to the structure vest with the Government, moral rights under Section 57 still remain with the artist who created the work. The destruction, therefore, violated these rights. Topical Highlight Prashant wrote about the most recent attempt