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Is personal data protection bill a double edged sword?
The last few years have seen phenomenal development and deliberations around the globe with respect to the issue of privacy of the digital data. The GDPR has been one such

What exactly are geographical indications?
The acid test for a GI product, therefore, is whether the consumers perceive it to originate from a certain geography and attribute the qualities, characteristics or reputation to that region.

Excluding “Essentially Biological Processes”: Implications for Monsanto vs Nuziveedu
Section 3(j) of the Indian Patents Act excludes plants, animals and “essentially biological processes” (for the production of plants and animals) from patent protection. The Delhi High Court relied significantly

The Chaos That The Monsanto Patent Battle Has Become
While Indian seed companies have won the battle to pay lower royalty and continue to reap benefits of their partnership with Monsanto, the agriculture giant gets to hold on to

Indian IP jurisprudence is the real winner in the Monsanto cotton technology case
On 8th January, the Supreme Court of India (India’s highest court) ruled in favour of Monsanto in the much discussed Monsanto Technology v Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd case. Monsanto had challenged the April 2018 order