Lawyers Collective Initiative on Patent Status Information

Lawyers Collective, a leading public interest service provider has come up with an innovative initiative by creating a searchable patent information status for key medicines in India. The patent status information of all robust patent applications will be made available. The available details include the drug name, patent application number and name, title, date of priority, status of the application, date of filing, first examination report etc.  It is created by collecting information from...

Jindal Global Law School winners of prestigious 7th edition of the Monroe Price Media Law Moot Court Competition

The winners in the finals of the International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford is a team from the Jindal Global Law School of the O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, comprising of students Mohana Krishna C., BaniBrar and RonakTalati. The students of Jindal Global Law School won against the team from the University of Oxford in the finals; Queen Mary University in the semi-finals and Singapore Management...

India will now have its own Standardized Legal Citation System

Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) is an India-centric citation system. It has the edge of a single citation methodology including India’s legal traditions and history.In the past 5 years, the Indian law schools have witnessed an upsurge in academic journals. The introduction of SILC will unite all academics, professionals, and students across the nation in research practices.SILC also cites various Indian legal sources and material which are not covered by foreign citation guides....

Oxford University disconnects all links from Oxford University Society India Moot Competition

Oxford University has issued a statement on the 19th of March in response to the complaints regarding the conduct of the Oxford University Society India Moot Competition by the participants. In an email sent by Stephen Rouse, Head of News & Information Office, Oxford University, it was clarified that the event was not organized by the University but by the Oxford University Society India alumni group.The statement mentioned that, “We are ourselves urgently investigating competitors’ concerns...

Microsoft India funds an Intellectual Property Law Chair in Gujarat National Law University: First of its kind initiative in an NLU

Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is the chosen one for a first of its kind initiative in a National Law University by Microsoft India, the global computer giant.Microsofthas decided to set up a chair for intellectual property in GNLU to unleash research in the area by some of the brightest legal minds of the country.The big announcement came at a rather opportune moment,viz., at the ‘Seminar on Importance of IT Compliance in the Automobile Industry-Benefits of Strengthening your Supply...

Plea for bail rejected; AMU Professor to be jailed in sexual harassment case

The Chairman of Department of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, who was booked and placed under suspension after a complaint of sexual harassment by a student, was sent to jail after his bail plea was rejected. The matter is now scheduled to be taken up in the court of the Additional District Judge.The accused, Prof Shabbir was suspended in the first week of December following a charge of sexual harassment of a girl student. On December 3, the girl, studying LLM, had alleged that the professor had...

HNLU students overture Constitutional law via Bluetooth

With the resolution of spreading legal awareness among the masses, the students of Hidayatullah National Law University [HNLU] came up with an ingenious approach, to send the copy of Constitution through Bluetooth and by distributing hard copies from January 24 to January 26.While informing about the initiative Saurabh Chaudhary, Vice President Student’s Bar Association told TOI that, "It is a small effort to spread awareness about one of the most important aspects of our country which is the...

Nationwide Programme for Establishing Village Legal Service Clinics; NALSA's Initiative

Legal service authorities under the LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITIES ACT, 1987 has been constituted to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, to fulfill such objective National Legal Service Authority has been working since 1998 from when the NALSA became properly functional for the first time.To take the initiative to all the corners of...

Three National Law Universities Coming in Maharashtra.

In the row of establishing a National Law University in each State of India, Maharashtra Government yesterday clears the way for establishing National Law Universities at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Mumbai. With the nod by the cabinet Maharashtra became the first state in India to have three National Law Universities at Koradi near Nagpur, Shendra near Aurangabad, and Vasai near Mumbai. Till now only 14 states have one each National Law university in their state.This project was initiated by minister...

Law Students observe black day against course lag in University of Calicut

On Wednesday, around 100 students of the Government Law College, Kozhikode protested against the lagging of BA LLB and the BBA LLB (Honours) courses at various law colleges affiliated to the University of Calicut. These courses are of five years duration, but because of the course lag, they have become 6 year long courses.Students reached the college dressed in black to participate in an agitation programme, ‘Observance of a Black Day’, organised as part of the ongoing protest.The agitation...

Best Judgments of Supreme Court in 2013

Novartis A.G v. Union of IndiaDenying patent rights to Novartis, the Apex Court gave its verdict, countering the infamous ‘ever greening’ of patent rights, interpreting section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970. In this case, Novartis had patented imatinib, which was exemplified in Example 21 of the Zimmerman patent. Novartis argued that the claimed invention involved a twofold step over Zimmerman, firstly from imatinib to imatinibmesylate, the salt form; and secondly to the β crystalline form of...

Publication of results delayed by Calicut University: 400 Law Students affected

Delay in publishing results has come in the way of the prospects of about four hundred final-year Law students studying in Calicut University. Students of 2008 batch of the University are still waiting for their results of last two semesters. The delay is crucial as contemporaneous students of Mahatma Gandhi University and Kerala University have passed out and enrolled as advocates.Examination of 9th semester of 5 year LLB batch and 5th semester of 3 year LLB batch were held on July 2013, but...