SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 11 – 17)

(This post has been authored by our intern, Bhavik Shukla, a 5th year student at NLIU, Bhopal) Topical Highlight Reverse Engineering and Aarogya Setu App: Contracting Out of Fair Dealing? One of our former bloggers, Aparajita wrote a guest post examining the legal enforceability of the prohibition on reverse engineering imposed by the terms of

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FORCE MAJEURE CASES UNDER INDIAN LAW: CASE ANALYSIS 1: SUPREME COURT: SATYABRATA GHOSE VS MUGNEERAM BANGUR & CO., AND ANOTHER 1954 SCR 310

Facts: In the present case, the Respondent Company, Mugneeram Bangur & Co, owned a land situated in Dhakuria Lakes within Greater Calcutta (Land). The Respondent Company was engaged in development of the said Land into residential use, under the name of Lake Colony Scheme No. 1. The entire land was divided into various plots for

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HIGHLIGHTS OF GAS LEAK TRAGEDY: LG POLYMERS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, VISAKHAPATNAM

Recently, the residents of R.R. #Venkatapuram Village, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, witnessed a catastrophic industrial #accident that occurred at the Chemical Plant of #LGPolymers India Private Limited, Visakhapatnam on 07-05-2020. The Company, LG Polymers, is owned by South-Korea based LG Chem and is engaged in the business of manufacturing #Polystyrene and its #Co-polymers. In view of

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FINANCE MINISTER ANNOUNCED 2ND PART OF ECONOMIC RELIEF PACKAGE 2020-21

As part of the Union Government’s Covid-19 economy revival package under Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, the Finance Minister, Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman on 14.05.2020 announced short term and long-term economic relief measures. This Part of the Economic reliefs focused on benefiting rural and urban poor, migrants, unorganized workers, street vendors, middle income group, and the needy amongst

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