Legal 60

Maternity leave is not merely a workplace benefit—it is a vital safeguard for the health, dignity, and welfare of both mother and child. In India, the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 guarantees paid leave to working women, but questions have arisen about whether such a benefit enjoys constitutional status, particularly under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Western Digital Technologies v. Hansraj Dugar, on a plain reading, may not seem a significant judgement. To me, however, it indicates a continuing shift in attitude of the Delhi High Court towards refurbishers. In this post, my aim is to give a round-up on cases where trade mark infringement has been alleged owing to refurbishment

                                               It is definitely a no-brainer that India has been most patiently tolerating massive cross-border terrorism unlike any other country in the world since last more than four decades when I was just

                                               It is definitely most praiseworthy to note that while ruling on a very significant legal point with far reaching implications directly concerning the accused facing serious criminal charges, the Allahabad High Court

   It is definitely in the fitness of things that while striking the right chord, the Gwalior Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled X vs The State of Madhya Pradesh And Others in Misc. Criminal Case No. 32576 of 2024 and cited in

Post on ANI’s latest copyright action – sending copyright strikes to YouTube creators, another perspective on the ANI vs. OpenAI copyright dispute, this time on excessive judicial borrowing and the storage paradox, and Delhi HC’s ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ order with too much, yet too little IP. This and more in our weekly roundup of blog

The Supreme Court of India upheld the cancellation of an industrial land allotment originally granted to the Kamla Nehru Memorial Trust (KNMT) by the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC). The judgment is a strong reaffirmation of contractual obligations, procedural propriety, and the Public Trust Doctrine in matters of public resource allocation. Case Title:

In Next Radio Ltd. & Anr. v Union of India (SLP (C) No. 14373/2022), the Supreme Court (“SC”) has “disposed of as withdrawn”, a challenge to the constitutionality of Rule 29(4), Copyright Rules, 2013. The Petitioners sought permission to withdraw the Special Leave Petition, in light of an order passed by the Delhi HC in

Image from here This post is co-authored with Yogesh Badwal, an incisive student from NLSIU, a SpicyIP member, and, of course, a dear friend. In the previous part, we examined whether the opt-out mechanism, as claimed in Gen-AI litigations, constitutes a prohibited formality for the “enjoyment and exercise” of authors’ rights under Article 5(2) of

Image from here This post is co-authored with Yogesh Badwal, an incisive student from NLSIU, a SpicyIP member, and, of course, a dear friend. Bonjour, Lately, we’ve been cogitating on this curious concept called the “opt-out”—an argument cropping up with increasing frequency in generative AI litigation, including in India. The EU and the UK are