The Ministry of Law and Justice in India constituted an expert committee under the Chairmanship of former Law Secretary, Mr T K. Vishwanathan to review and revise Indian Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 to comport with international standards. The committee issued a notice inviting comments...

The Ministry of Law and Justice in India constituted an expert committee under the Chairmanship of former Law Secretary, Mr T K. Vishwanathan to review and revise Indian Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 to comport with international standards. The committee issued a notice inviting comments...

Mindful of the current trend within the United States to revive the focus on the use of trademark to determine a mark’s ability to act as a source indicator, in this paper I highlight how focusing on use can create disparate results by examining the role of use when dealing with well-known...

The TRIPS Waiver sought by India and South Africa features as the hot button issue of 2021. This paper enables that discussion by empirically showcasing the traditional role of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on the question of pharmaceutical patents. The USTR is authorized by...

Although low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear 75% of the cancer burden globally, their available resources to treat cancer constitute less than 5% of global health resources. This inequity makes it imperative to take appropriate measures to treat and prevent cancer in LMICs, which...

Mindful of the current trend within the United States to revive the focus on the use of trademark to determine a mark's ability as a source indicator, this paper highlights how focusing on use can create disparate results by examining the role of use when dealing with well-known marks. Hence,...

The paper below largely is an extract of the testimonial filed by the authors to the Secretary of the ITC in response to the Notice on the Federal Register dated August 29, 2013 titled Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies in India: Effects on the U.S. Economy. Where required, the paper...

This article attempts to understand the legitimacy and limitations of US involvement in another country's sovereign actions taken expressly in the public interest, or to protect public health, such as the compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals. The first section takes the example of compulsory...

This paper focuses on two types of licenses that can best be described as outliers — FRAND and compulsory licenses.Overall, these two specific forms of licenses share the objective of producing a fair and reasonable license of a technology protected by intellectual property. The comparable...