The history of cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation makes a new history of unprecedented financial innovation. This challenges the status quo in the structures of regulation and compels governments worldwide to take a relook at their approach on financial regulation. Two…
IAMAI v. RBI and SEC v. Ripple Labs, two cases from different contexts of law, ponder questions at the bedrock of what cryptocurrency is, and just how far the writ of regulatory authority reaches. In IAMAI, the Indian Supreme Court…
Bodin argued that sovereignty is indivisible and absolute and that it should be concentrated in a single, unified authority within the state. The work of Grotius demonstrated, at the same time, recognition that such international law existed, but he confined…
Artificial intelligence has gained a central stage over the past few years with the effects it has on the world. However, there are both positives and negatives of the same. While it has made our lives easier to some extent,…
HEPATITIS C – VACCINE AND PATENT Gilead Sciences’ sofosbuvir, a drug for Hepatitis C was approved in 2013 by US Food & Drug Administration was immediately criticized for its high cost as its price is so elevated relative to production…
INTRODUCTION Whether the Indian pharmaceutical firms are indeed innovating in developing new drugs or just incrementally improving the existing drugs to gain patents and arrive on the drug market. Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: regained focus on research and development, having turned…
INTRODUCTION When a woman experiences her period or menstruates, the menstrual cycle begins. A woman's body gets ready for a potential pregnancy throughout this cycle, which is a component of her reproductive system. A normal cycle lasts between 24 to 38…
Intellectual Property Rights is a term that rarely requires explanation in modern times. The phrase Intellectual Property expresses the notion that its subject matter is the result of the intellect or mind. It serves as both a deterrent and an…
When Patent applicant dies before the Patent is granted Section 20 of the Patents Act, 1970 deals with the procedure that has to be following for substitution of applications etc. Under S.20(4), upon the death of one or more joint…
Elucidating copyright law in layman’s terms, whenever a person produces a unique work, he is inevitably granted the sole ownership of the work, having absolute right over the same. Nevertheless, the owner has the authority to either transfer his rights…