[Part II] Public Money, Private Patents? Unravelling India’s Opacity over its COVID Vaccines

/ By / Others, Patent

Continuing the discussion on opacity behind the public money invested in development of COVID-19 vaccines, Prashant Reddy T, in Part II of his post, recounts his struggle with the government, including his eventual litigation to access essential public documents related to government funding in the vaccines. Please Note: This part includes some sections from Part I and was previously published in Newslaundry here. Prashant is one of our most prolific bloggers (his posts can be accessed here). He is also the co-author of three […]

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[Part I] India’s Hypocrisy over the TRIPs Waiver During the Pandemic

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In a series of three hard-hitting posts, Prashant Reddy T exposes the alarming lack of transparency surrounding public funds spent on indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines. He details his ordeal in attempting to obtain crucial information from the government and raises pressing concerns about the absence of accountability in public spending. Part I highlights the government’s hypocrisy during the pandemic—seeking a global TRIPS waiver before the WTO while simultaneously allowing the patenting of publicly funded COVID-related inventions in India and overseas.

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Workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS, and Patents in the Developing World [Kochi, May 30 to June 3, 2025]

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Third World Network (TWN) and the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) are organising a five-day workshop on “Access to Medicines, TRIPS, and Patents in the Developing World” from May 30 to June 3, 2025, in Kochi, Kerala. The last date for submitting your applications is April 6. For more details, please read the call for applications below- Workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS, and Patents in the Developing World [Kochi, May 30 to June 3, 2025]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 24 – March 30)

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Keep up with the ever-changing world of IP with SpicyIP’s Weekly Review! Wrapping up March with a busy week, here is a quick glance at the 11 posts- that include posts declaring the winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on IP Law, a two part post explaining how an LLM works, DHC’s decision to refuse an injunction to Roche in the Risdipalm case, and another two part post on the BHC’s decision in the Karan Johar personality rights case.

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Part II- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding ‘Why’ Training ChatGPT Transcends the Contours of Copyright

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Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS are in effect interacting with non-expressive parts of the works in question. Further, he questions whether even a Text Data Mining Exception is required in the Indian Copyright Act. Part 1 of this 2 part series can be accessed here. Shivam is an LLM candidate at NUS Law specializing in IP

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Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding ‘Why’ Training ChatGPT Transcends the Contours of Copyright

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In a fantastic 2 part post teasing apart how Large Language Models actually work, Shivam Kaushik gets down and dirty with the technical details of the algorithmic training process and explains why there are copyright implications beyond the ‘obvious’. In this first part, Shivam explains each part of the “G” “P” T” in ChatGPT actually does, and then takes forward why this is relevant. Shivam is an LLM candidate at NUS Law specializing in IP and Tech Laws and a

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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

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We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! The annual essay competition was earlier announced on 14 May 2024, on the occasion of Prof. Basheer’s 48th birth anniversary. It took a little longer than anticipated to review all the fantastic entries we received, but we are very excited to announce the results after a very close finish between our finalists. Like previous years, we kept the topic selection open

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CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations!

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On 25th March 2025, the Patent Office officially released the Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, for public consultations. Section 3(k) has been subject to great debate and discussion in the blog. On a quick glance at the guidelines, the guidelines include discussion surrounding all aspects of patenting software (novelty, inventive step, clarity, etc). More importantly, it has also incorporated recent case laws that have dealt with Section 3(k) in a separate heading titled ‘Recent jurisprudence’. Some

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Injunction against Natco refused: Public Interest Triumphs – Maybe

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Some very notable developments for those watching rare-disease litigation in India. On 24th March, in F Hoffman v. Natco, the Delhi High Court refused to grant an interim injunction against Natco from manufacturing a generic version of Risdiplam. While that was a temporary cause of celebration for patients, we have heard from readers that this morning the Division Bench, in an appeal, has ordered a status quo till the next hearing- (FAO(OS) COMM 43/2025). Natco also appears to have given an undertaking to

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[PART II] Personality Rights in Spotlight Once More!: Analysing The BomHC’s Karan Johar v.  India Pride Advisory Order 

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[A big thanks to Praharsh for his inputs on the post.] This is Part II of the two-part post on the recent Bombay High Court (BomHC) order in the case of Karan Johar v. India Pride Advisory Private Ltd. & Ors that has once again brought to the spotlight the debate of balancing the protection of celebrity’ personality rights and the freedom of expressions and parodical use. In Part I of the post (here), the BomHC’s decision and analysis of

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