ALG’s Dishti Titus was invited to speak at a podcast on ‘Non Fungible Tokens & its congruence with Intellectual Property Rights: The Era of Blockchain and its Intersection with Intellectual Property Rights’.
The podcast aired on September 19 on the channel ‘In Conversation With IPR & Competition Law’ and is available here and here.
A ‘Legal Issues Seminar-General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Shilpa Margaret Kurian, Trainee Associate, on ‘Whether Search Engines as Autonomous Databases can be held liable for IP Infringement?’. The seminar explored the concepts of databases, autonomous databases, and search engines. To understand the position of search engines as databases in India, reliance was placed on judicial precedents, in addition to the relevant legal provisions under the Copyright Act, 1957. The session concluded with some interesting questions and discussion among the team members regarding jurisdictional issues and what may be the liability of search engines when enforcing the right to be forgotten.
The presentation can be accessed here.
During last week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) Session, Shreya Das, Associate, lead a discussion on whether moral rights should be granted to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The session witnessed an engrossing debate on whether AI can be granted moral rights in isolation of its creator and the pros and cons of granting such rights to AI. The participants also discussed the purposes of granting personhood to AI as well as how and to whom the resultant rights and liabilities would be applicable.
A ‘Legal Issues Seminar-General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Sneha Tandon, Senior Associate, on “Whether Pharmaceutical Trademarks/Brand Names are regulated under the Drugs And Cosmetic Act, 1940.” The seminar discussed the issue of Look-Alike and Sound Alike (LASA) drugs and looked into various pharmaceutical trademark cases. Various legislative and executive actions were also highlighted to explain the current drug regulatory framework in India. The session concluded with some interesting questions and discussion among the team, including, whether a system similar to what is followed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs prior to registering company names can be implemented for pharmaceutical trademarks/brand names as well.
The presentation can be accessed here.
During last week’s Practice Work Shop (PWS) Session, Sannidhi Mahapatra, Associate, lead a discussion on whether there are differences in trademark enforcement and protection strategies in India and other countries. The session witnessed an engaging discussion on the concept of IP colonialism, reasons behind differences in enforcement strategies and the possible steps to bridge the gap in policies of different nations.
