Thematic Highlight This fortnight’s thematic highlight was Pankhuri’s update on the Patent Working PIL matter at the Delhi HC. The Delhi HC had disposed of the matter on April 23, 2018. The Court directed the Government to complete all the steps towards effecting necessary amendments in the patent working provisions, strictly within the timelines proposed by it. Pankhuri highlighted how the stakeholder consultation process has already been undertaken by the government. She hopes that the Government comes up with a…

Thematic Highlight This fortnight’s thematic highlights were brought by Adarsh Ramanujan and our fellowship applicant, Kashish Makkar, respectively: Adarsh Ramanujan wrote an interesting guest post, throwing some much needed light on the element of “public interest” during the grant of injunctions in patent proceedings. He deconstructs the “public interest element” – taking us through the way various aspects of it are understood by both Indian and foreign courts. He concludes by suggesting ways in which parties should approach the “public…

We’ve had quite an eventful fortnight at the blog: Thematic Highlight This fortnight’s thematic highlight was a guest post by our fellowship applicant, Prarthana Patnaik. Taking apart a recent US District Court judgment that held the “embedding” of tweets as copyright infringement, Prarthana discusses the implications of the decision. In doing so, she critically analyses the Court’s understanding and application of the “Server Test” – which is the landmark judicial test employed in deciding issues of copyright infringement of electronic…

Our thematic highlight of the week was the guest post by Ms. Simrat Kaur on the IFPI annual global music report and the state of the global recording industry. The post highlights the industry’s grouses about intermediary safe harbour laws leading to a value gap, which they are hoping to capitalize on by evolving new legal principles. Our topical highlight was Sreyoshi’s post on the final hearing in the infamous case of the Monkey’s Copyright. This appeal was an affirmation…