In January 2016, the Government of India launched the Startup India initiative, which has transformed the way in which the markets, potential entrepreneurs, and investors view startups. This transformation included a slew of policy measures intended to promote a startup culture and allow younger...

India is one of the most significant countries of Asia, particularly in terms of its population and growing economy and markets. India has rapidly moved from a 'command and control' economy to free-market principles, and in this regard, one of the major reforms revamped the competition law. The...

Computer programs, as an area of protection under the copyright branch of Intellectual Property Laws is an important aspect to venture upon. Whenever one thinks about protection of Intellectual Property in computer programs, a thought travels to the protection afforded by the law of Patents....

States have become schizophrenic, accepting obligations one day, undoing them the next, committing themselves to do something and then coming back on their commitments, ratifying treaties which will soon be contradicted by another treaty signed in another international forum. The same States...

Disputes are inevitable in commercial transactions and this gets further complicated when it comes to cross boundary commercial transactions. Mostly it has been an experience that the parties to resolve commercial disputes including an international commercial transaction dispute utilize...

Under the present system of competition laws in India, the dominance per se is not bad, what is bad is the abuse of this dominant position. This module would enable the learners to, enumerate the conduct which would be termed as abuse under Competition Act, 2002. Explain the concept of ‘unfair...

The concept of abuse of dominant position in US and EU has some basic differences and it is interesting to note that the competition law in India has seen a shift from more reliance on EU than US in dealing with abuse of dominance cases. This is quite evident from the fact that the concept of...