Protection of undisclosed information is not a myth, since time immemorial people have used, practiced and safeguarded undisclosed information thus it is very much a protectable subject matter. Undisclosed information has reached portals of international protection and deliberation; with...

Agricultural labour in India as such does not stand at par with industrial labour. Agriculture in India is not recognized as industry thus labourers working under harsh conditions are subject to different set of rules and regulations and most surprisingly a good number of their working...

Subsidy as a manipulative support system is structured in a country by way of fiscal law relating to macro-economic management through the budgetary process. It is that branch of International Trade Law, fact file of which lies in pure economics. International trade lawyers, intellectuals,...

Privatization and vanishing closed economy are the key factors giving impetus to growth of regulatory authorities in India. At the same time permissible constitutional mandate for establishment of regulatory authorities needs thorough investigation and ascertainment. Establishing a regulatory...

Anti dumping duty has become rule of the day and WTO members are using this mechanism as a protectionist measure. This is so because the methodology of calculating dumping margin is not uniform. The US practices zeroing mechanism, which appears to be not in consonance with the agreement on...

In certain cases the novelty requirement may not be as hard to achieve as the inventiveness requirement. To establish novelty, size considerations may be enough to distinguish the technology from the prior art. However non-obviousness can be more problematic. Nanotechnology patenting needs a...

It is not possible to segregate Copyright and neighboring rights so to provide a separate legal regime for protection of neighboring rights. International developments in this area of intellectual property has created so much so trade interest that WIPO, and WTO stand together on the issues of...