Saransh Chaturvedi

Understanding intellectual property: Has ‘trips’ really worked for developing countries?

December 5, 2020

The author in the previous posts of Understanding IP primarily dealt with the area of jurisprudential foundation of Intellectual Property (IP). In the first piece, the author discusses the foundational analysis based on Locke’s justification of property. The requirement of labor in one’s idea provides an insight towards the notion...

Understanding IP through utility and incentive-based approach

October 26, 2020

In the previous piece, the author discussed how personality matters in intellectual property. The author relates to the personality theory giving Hegelian’s justification for intellectual property. The claim over the property by the creator is because others should identify the work with the creator. If we see any type of...

How personality matters in intellectual property

October 10, 2020

What justifies an author in alienating his copies of work while keeping the exclusive right of reproduction of further copies with him? In the previous piece the author discussed about the foundational principle of the intellectual property. The author relates to the labor theory giving Locke’s justification for the intellectual...

Rethinking global patent linkage regime in the time of pandemic

August 24, 2020

Introduction The outbreak of Covid-19 has set the eyes of the world towards finding a suitable vaccine for the virus. Undoubtedly, the vaccine will have a huge global demand once it is prepared. This prevailing situation has made various countries to re-think some of the most pressing issues with regard...

Need for disclosure-based data exclusivity norms in the time of pandemic

July 7, 2020

The outbreak of Covid-19 has set the eyes of the world towards finding a suitable vaccine for the virus. Undoubtedly, the vaccine will have a huge global demand once it is prepared. Whatever the fate of the drug be, it becomes very pertinent to see our dependency on pharmaceuticals industry....