The Law of Bolar Exemption in India
July 22, 2021Whenever a person creates a new thing that is not in existence in the society earlier such as any literary work, machines, a new type of medicine or technology, etc, then it can be called an invention and one who makes an invention is termed as an Inventor. The one who invents something must be given credit and recognition. So, to protect the invention from any type of infringement in India, we have the Indian Patents Act, 1970 which provides legal recognition of invention and protects them from being infringed. According to Sec 2(j) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970…
Necrophilia – A Socio-Legal Insight
As civilization has progressed, humans have become self-aware. Societies or Modern Societies have now evolved and have changed the way an individual thinks. In the present day and age, we are learning to be more gender-inclusive and…
TRIPS Waiver – A Magic Move or a Hopeless Attempt?
This renowned adage is not just a hollow moral saying, but it finds justification because of numerous events that occurred throughout history. From the fight against slavery to the fight against global warming, a world-wide support has…
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
Gender is a spectrum. But popularly, only two of these genders – male and female – are recognized, albeit with stereotypes. There is a lot more to gender than what has been understood, and because it is…
Fallen Dignity – Dignity of the Dead, Dying, and Living
India was collectively horrified when the news of hundreds of dead bodies floating on a river in Uttar Pradesh broke. The Coronavirus Pandemic has made us reconsider our societal structure, and the impacts of the pandemic have made…
The Vice of Child Abuse – Scarring Children for Life
Child abuse or any violence against children can be seen in many forms – physical, emotional, or even sexual. Children are usually defined as individuals who are below the age of puberty or 18 years. Such violence…
Acid Attack – An Abomination of the Society
Reality is a concentrated acid; it burns one to the core. Acid attacks are certainly an abomination of our society. Whenever we come across a case where we get to know about a person (mostly a girl…
The Creation and Detection of Deepfakes – A Socio-Legal Analysis
Wherever you look, there is technology. Even the device on which you are reading this article is technology. Technology has gained importance in today’s world and now it is next to impossible to aloof ourselves from it.…
Constructing Mentally Ill – Implementing the Mental Healthcare Laws
While everyone has periods of difficulty and some mental flaws, being diagnosed as mentally ill is different. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental illness (DSM-5) defines a mental illness as a syndrome characterized by clinically significant…
Too many Crooks spoil the Broth – The Menace of White Collar Crimes
Persons of a noble profession, eminent practitioners, industrial capitalists, evil hoarders, the speculators, the profiteers, the black marketeers and visionaries of the idealistic world, however worthy and influential they may be, just to accumulate more and more…
The Myth of Mid-Day Meal – A Socio-Legal Critique
The Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme is a meal-providing scheme in India, which is aimed at improving the nutritional standing of school-going children in the nation. The scheme supplies free lunch to primary school children of government institutions.…
Freedom of Speech and Expression and Blasphemy – A thin line
The land of rich culture, with the crown of Unity in Diversity, India has always been praised for the variety of culture, region, food, and traditions it holds. The nation has a population of about 1.38 billion…
In a world where Law exists without Sanctions
This entire narrative regarding sanctions and law has been researched by the learned jurisprudential scholar, John Austin. This entire theory has been popularly referred to as Austin’s Command Theory as well. He defines law as the command…
Domestic Abuse and its impact on Children – A Socio-Legal Analysis
Domestic Abuse can be defined as the systematic pattern of abusive behavior in a relationship that is used to gain or to showcase hegemony over another person. In the majority of cases, abuse is caused by the…
Employment and Workplace Equality for the Silenced and Unheard
There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. In India, one of the most noticeable kinds of social injustice is seen in the realms of gender and…
Reservation in India’s Elected Bodies
In easy words, Reservation means reserving access to seats. In India, reservation is all about reserving a certain percentage of seats in government institutions. It is for people who are from backward classes and under-represented communities. Reservation…
