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Software Patenting: A Boon Or Bane
BY MANJUNATH N.G. Software patents are patents which cover software ideas, ideas which you would use in developing software. It is a patent on any performance of a computer realized by means of a computer program. Thus, it refers to patents that could be granted on products or processes which include software as significant and…
Interviewing Sarosh Zaiwalla
Q: Did you find much difference in the standard of legal education in Indian universities and UK Colleges? Yes, of course. There is an enormous difference, especially at college level. Indian education system, until recently, was very much a colonial education system, which did not allow the student to think. A student is expected to…
Corporate Governance: Past, Present & Future in India
BY VIPIN AGARWAL. The corporate governance may not dictate the economic prospects of developing countries, it certainly plays an integral role in shaping them. Corporate governance deals with the rights and responsibilities of a company’s management, its board, shareholders and various stakeholders. Corporate governance in a developing-country setting takes on additional importance. Good corporate governance…
Central Information Commission – Judicial Body or Administration Wing
BY Anshul Gupta. Central Information Commission: Judicial Body or Administration Wing Central Information Commission (CIC) set up under RTI (Right to Information) Act, 2005 is an authorized body to provide information to individuals, by acting on the complaints from them who haven’t received the information from the public authority. There has been a Quaestur (Question…
Relevance and the Legality of Article 35A of the Constitution of India
BY Vipin Agarwal. On 26th October 1947, the State of Jammu & Kashmir acceded to India through the Instrument of Accession between Maharaja Hari Singh and the Government of India based on certain conditions that the matter of Defence, External Affairs and Communication would be preserved for the Government of India. In 1949, several negotiations…
Intellectual Property Protection of Computer Softwares in India and its Limitations
BY Ankit Kumar. With the rapid changes in the field of information technology taking place across the world, computers are fast becoming an essential property the legal systems have developed as their own responses. The definition and interpretations varies. In some countries, patent protection differs. In Indian context, the Copyright act was amended in 1994…
Strengthening India’s Cooperative and Competitive Federalism through Inter-State Council
BY CBP Srivastava. Strengthening India’s Cooperative and Competitive Federalism through Inter-State Council B.R. Ambedkar once described India and its states as “one integral whole, its people a single people living under a single imperium derived from a single source”. With this approach, the Constitution provided for a Union of States under Article 1 making its…
Secretarial Standards – An Overview
BY Monisha Gade. SECRETARIAL STANDARDS – AN OVERVIEW Indian economy is growing at a fast pace. The economic policies of the country are being framed and developed with a view to meet the competitive markets at the international level. With the adoption of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation policy, the market access is being increased. It…
The Sinking of the Titanic – The Untold Story and the New Evidence
BY Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India. The Titanic set off on her maiden voyage from Southampton on 10th April, 1912 under the command of the ‘trusty’ Captain Edward John Smith, which was to be his last voyage before retirement. The ship carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, including the American…
Importance of Intersectionality in Gender-Centric Discourses
By DR. K. RAJANI KUMARI The recent debate on the abolition of triple talaq, initiated in the case of Shayara Bano v. Union of India, has once again opened the Pandora’s box which was hitherto unlocked in 1985 after the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Shah Bano case and urgently closed by the then government…