Author name: Rishabh Mohnot

SpicyIP has been bustling with activity this week, with posts on diverse areas and active engagement from our readers. Thematic Highlight In another post in the ongoing series on the plant variety regime in India, Prof. N.S. Gopalakrishnan discusses farmers’ varieties in the Indian regime. He notes that there are discrepancies in the individual or people that can apply for registration of a farmer’s variety under the legislation. He further notes that the legislation does not provide clear guidance for …

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Thematic Highlight Prof. Basheer and Pankhuri provided a critical analysis of the National IPR Policy 2016. They note that the policy is not worth celebrating, since it largely endorses dogmatic views of IPR and lacks the creativity necessary for a robust policy framework. They do, however, point out that the policy has done well to recognise the importance of open-access works and rewarding innovation through prizes and awards. They provide excerpts of their recently published paper, which provides the first …

SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 30-August 5) Read More »

We have had another eventful week at the blog. Thematic Highlight Our thematic highlight for this week came from a guest post by Dr Balakrishna Pisupati, who wrote on the strict interpretation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002 and associated rules, which has resulted in a number of people falling foul of the legislation’s penal provisions. Dr Pisupati highlighted the dissonance in the provisions on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing which have been interpreted by the Indian Govt. …

SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 15-22) Read More »

We have had an eventful fortnight at the blog: Thematic Highlight For our thematic highlight, we had a guest post from Prof. N.S. Gopalakrishnan. In the first of a series of posts, he writes about the problems in the Indian plant variety regime. In this post, he argues that the ‘enclosure movement’ in extant and farmers’ varieties is resulting in commonly available varieties being monopolised by private players. This has resulted in the plant variety regime working against the farmers since it reduces their …

SpicyIP Fortnightly Review (June 24-July 7) Read More »