The following interns have commenced Internship at ALG from March 1, 2021 – March 31, 2021
1. Sahaana Chhabria, Final Year student of OP Jindal Global University, Haryana. She will be mentored by Manavi Jain; and
2. Yashwardhan Singh, Final Year student of Symbiosis Law School, Pune. He will be mentored by Pranay Bali.
Sri Lekha Rayapati, Associate, lead an engaging discussion on the notion of IP Commons, its history and purpose during last week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) session. The discussion, inter alia, also delved into the the necessity of expanding Intellectual Commons as well as the interplay between Commons and Creativity.
A Special Legal Issues Seminar (SLIS) was conducted by Intern, Manvee Kumar Saidha, on ‘Copyrightability of APIs vis-a-vis the Merger Doctrine’. The Seminar touched upon whether Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can be protected under the Copyright law, in the backdrop of the case of Google v. Oracle and the Merger Doctrine as interpreted by the Indian and American Courts.
The presentation can be accessed here.
A Legal Issues Seminar’ (LIS) was conducted by Sunidhi Bansal, Associate, on issues such as related to Sponsorships, IP in Sports and Dilution, Debasement, Denigration, Erosion & Tarnishment of Trademarks.
The seminar particularly touched upon the issues pertaining to ambush marketing and whether existing legislation sufficient to deal with activity pertaining to ambush marketing, use of sports video clips & fair dealing and defense of parody or satire in case of trademark infringement.
The presentation can be accessed here.
Krithika Muthuraman, Associate, lead an engaging discussion on the prevailing measures to help bridge the gender gap in IP ownership during this week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) session. The discussion delved into the causes resulting in the gender gap, current measures in place to bridge them and how they can potentially be supplemented by awareness drives, financial schemes or special provisions in procedure.
