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CRI Guidelines 2025 is out for Public Consultations!
On 25th March 2025, the Patent Office officially released the Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025, for public consultations. Section 3(k) has been subject to...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on...
Prof (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! The annual...
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Part I- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI):...
In a fantastic 2 part post teasing apart how Large Language Models actually work, Shivam Kaushik gets down and dirty with the technical details of the algorithmic training process and explains why...
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Part II- Applying Natural Intelligence (NI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI):...
Continuing from his earlier post, where he explained the technical workings of Large Language Models vis-a-vis where different copyright questions arise, in this post Shivam Kaushik argues that LLMS...
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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 24 – March 30)
Keep up with the ever-changing world of IP with SpicyIP’s Weekly Review! Wrapping up March with a busy week, here is a quick glance at the 11 posts- that include posts declaring the winners of the 2024...
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Workshop on Access to Medicines, TRIPS, and Patents in the Developing World...
Third World Network (TWN) and the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) are organising a five-day workshop on “Access to Medicines, TRIPS, and...
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[Part I] India’s Hypocrisy over the TRIPs Waiver During the Pandemic
In a series of three hard-hitting posts, Prashant Reddy T exposes the alarming lack of transparency surrounding public funds spent on indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines. He details his ordeal in...
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[Part II] Public Money, Private Patents? Unravelling India’s Opacity over its...
Continuing the discussion on opacity behind the public money invested in development of COVID-19 vaccines, Prashant Reddy T, in Part II of his post, recounts his struggle with the government, including...
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[Part III] Should Delhi High Court be Inviting Pharmaceutical Companies for...
After two hard-hitting posts (Part I and Part II) on transparency surrounding public money in COVID-19 vaccines, Prashant Reddy wraps up this three part saga with a curious incident. Here, he writes on...
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The Great Indian Cancer Information Treasure Hunt
Image generated by ChatGPT.[This post has been co-authored by Swaraj and Sabeeh. Long post ahead]Cancer incidences continue to increase in India, with over 1.46 million estimated new cases diagnosed...
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