In the recent judgement in the High Court of Delhi in Monsanto Technology LLC and Ors. v. Nuziveedu Seeds Limited and Ors, the Delhi High Court has single-handedly devastated the Biotechnology (Bt.) industry in India. The Bianchi Law Firm in Red Bank, NJ on observing the recent judgement contended that it will have far-reaching consequences…
Network Neutrality Around The World : A Basic Overview
Network Neutrality (NN) refers to a network wherein participants are effectively blind to the nature of data flowing through the network. Another way of defining NN is a network wherein participants are restricted from differential treatment of data flow. Please understand that the definitions provided above are, in cliché speak, two sides of the same…
Huawei v ZTE: SEPs, Injunctions and the Points of Interface between the ECJ Case and Indian Jurisprudence: Part I
[Ed Note: This post is the first part of a two part series authored by Vaibhav Laddha, a student of NALSAR University of Law.] Technology product markets today are inherently international. Products designed in Germany may be manufactured in Korea or China and sold in India. This cross-cutting global nature of technological products has created…
Huawei v ZTE: SEPs, Injunctions and the Points of Interface between the ECJ Case and Indian Jurisprudence : Part II
[Ed Note: This post is the second part of a two part series authored by Vaibhav Laddha, a student of NALSAR University of Law. The first part can be found here.] The Indian telecommunications market is one of the largest in the world, and therefore becomes an important market for the key participants in the telecommunications…
YouTube and Censorship
One of the most discussed topics in the world today is how much we can trust the sources of news around us. Fake news seems to be running rampant and it is obvious that we have to evaluate how much faith to put in what we read. That being said, the situation becomes considerably worse…
Regulation of Artificial Intelligence : The Way Ahead
The “employee” at JP Morgan called COIN, “recruited” in June 2017, is highly efficient to say the least. It does work that earlier took 3,60,000 hours in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile, in a few developed countries ghost cars that are programmed to “drive themselves”, that is, driverless cars, are hitting the roads. On the…
Part II: Public Law and Cryptocurrencies The Institution of Property – Form and Function
[Ed note: This post, published on the “Law and Other Things” blog, has been co- authored by Namratha Murugeshan and Prachi Srikant Tadsare. The views expressed by the authors are in a personal capacity and do not reflect the views of the institution the authors are affiliated to.] On December 28, 2017 the South Korean government banned domestic…
Misnomer of the Decade: Crypto -“currency” Part I : What is Crypto- “currency” and How Does It Work?
[Ed note: This post, published on the “Law and Other Things” blog, has been co- authored by Namratha Murugeshan and Prachi Srikant Tadsare. The views expressed by the authors are in a personal capacity and do not reflect the views of the institution the authors are affiliated to.] A lawyer and her client walk into a room full…
Is Protecting Internet Intermediaries and Forgetting their Users Wrong
Ed Note: The following is a guest post by Abhijeet Singh Rawaley, a student of NALSAR University of Law. The law surrounding online intermediary liability in cases concerning copyright infringement has posed a major interpretive challenge in Indian jurisprudence. The division bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in its 2016 December judgment attempted…
At What Point Does Hacking Become Illegal?
Ed. Note: This post by Tanvi Apte is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 It is 2008. An entity called ASTRA has been stealing sensitive weapons technology from the Dassault Group for over half a decade and selling it to individuals, costing the company $360 million and the world much more.[1] Ironically…