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In this episode (12), Yogesh Byadwal speaks to Dr Binay Panda and Prashant Reddy about the Feb 2025 Delhi High Court decision in UC Regents vs The Controller of Patents, a very interesting case that could have repercussions for the biotech industry at large.

In particular, they discuss questions raised ( or left open) by the case around patentability vis-a-vis Section 3(c) and Section 3(j) of the Patents Act. As well as questions on the disclosure, and deposit requirement as per Section 10 of the Patents Act.

(Note: this episode was recorded on June 2025 as is current as of then. It's not clear if there has been any update since then, and watchers are advised to cross check instead of relying on this as the current position).

Prashant Reddy had also earlier written on this case here: https://spicyip.com/2025/02/delhi-hig...

About Dr Binay Panda: Professor (Dr.) Binay R. Panda is a distinguished academic at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He earned his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, UK, and his M.Sc. from the University of Delhi, India.His research interests encompass data integration and genomic medicine,development of high-throughput genomics tools, metabolic engineering ofsecondary metabolites, biodiversity genomics, and the promotion of openscience practices. Additionally, he has held visiting positions at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Tokyo. Professor Panda has been honored with several accolades, including the American CancerSociety Junior-Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Felix Scholarship at Oxford, and the Radhakrishnan Memorial Bequest Award. His notable publications include contributions to journals like Cancer and JCO – Clinical Cancer Informatics.

About Prashant Reddy: Prashant Reddy T graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, with a B.A.LLB (Hons.) degree in 2008. He holds an LLM degree (Law, Science & Technology) from Stanford Law School. He has worked with law firms in Delhi and in academia in India and Singapore. He is also the co-author of the books “Create, Copy, Disrupt: India's Intellectual Property Dilemmas” (OUP, 2017), “Tareekh Pe Justice: Reforms For India’s District Courts” (Simon and Schuster India, 2025) and “The Truth Pill” (Simon and Schuster India, 2022).

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Credits:

Yogesh Byadwal: Host, Researcher

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Researcher, Editor

Sonisha Srinivasan: Editor

Praharsh Gour, Md Sabeeh Ahmad: Camera, Mic, Set

Tanishka Goswami, Anjali Tripathi, Athreya Bhat: Graphics & Media

Praharsh Gour, Yogesh Byadwal, Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan: Research, Checks & General Setup

Here is SpicyIP's Annual Review of 2025 with developments curated across different categories: https://spicyip.com/2025/12/a-look-ba....

You can check out this blogpost for all the reading materials linked to it.

We present to you an Annual Review Video in three parts that draw from the main blogpost. These are divided based on three subject areas: Trademarks, Patents, and Copyright and Other IPs.

In this episode 04 (Part 3 of 3), the SpicyIP team reflects upon the most significant developments on Copyrights and Other IPs of 2025, organised across four categories, with each speaker explaining why a particular development made it to our list:

a) Top IP Judgments/Orders by Topicality and/or Impact

b) Top IP Judgments/Orders by Jurisprudential Rigour and/ or Legal Lucidity

c) Top 10 IP Legislative and Policy Related Developments

d) Other IP Developments

Developments covered

00:29- Phonographic Performance Limited v. Azure Hospitality Private Limited

02:43- Elsevier Ltd. and Ors. v. Alexandra Elbakyan And Ors.

04:35- Kritesh Oswal S/O Sohan Lal v. Union Of India

06:37- Cryogas Equipment Private Limited v. Inox India Limited and Others

08:24- Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar v. Mr. A.R. Rahman & Ors.

10:37- Asociacion De Productores De Pisco A.G v. Union Of India & Ors

13:11- India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

15:05- Amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021)

16:57- GI Amendment Rules 2025, and Draft Guidelines for Use of GIs

18:58- DPIIT Committee on Gen AI and Copyright: Working Paper 1

20:17- CGPDTM to Fund Students Participating in International IP Moot Court Competitions

21:19- The ANI v. OpenAI Copyright Litigation

23:29- SWA and MCAI Sign MoU to Collaborate on Standardising Screenwriters’ Agreements

25:20- India’s Public Broadcasters Unlock Their Vast Archives

26:45- Prada’s 2026 Collection Drew Backlash for Sandals Inspired by India’s GI-tagged Kolhapuri Chappals

Updates:

10:11- Update on the SLP before the Supreme Court: On 20th February, 2026, the Supreme Court without deciding merits, encouraged parties to explore an interim arrangement wherein Respondent No.1 shall modify and display revised credits including appellants name.

SC decision: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136713576/

12:48- On 18th March 2026, the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court, dismissed Peru’s appeal seeking standalone GI registration for “PISCO,” upholding the mandatory prefix “PERUVIAN.”

DB decision: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181634648/

16:40- On 30th March 2026, draft amendments were proposed to IT Rules, 2021 relating to strengthening intermediary compliance with clarifications, advisories and directions issued by the Ministry and digital media oversight by MeitY.

Draft Amendment: https://www.meity.gov.in/static/uploads/2026/03/30591fc6e322dcbcc9dae84a0f02e9e7.pdf

You can find:

Episode 4 Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/gCJfUUtbeI0?si=4E9Kc9eUvjql_BmB

Episode 4 Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbACaGu8UI

Speakers:

Praharsh Gour is the Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP

Kartik Sharma is a final year law student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and an Analyst at SpicyIP

Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan is an IP lawyer, and an Analyst at SpicyIP

Ambika Aggarwal is a Ph.D. (IP Law) scholar at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad , and a Tech Innovation Policy Fellow (2025) and Analyst at SpicyIP

Tanishka Goswami is an Officer Trainee (Law) at Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., and an Analyst & part of the Podcast Team at SpicyIP

Sonisha Srinivasan is a final year law student at Christ University, and a part of the Podcast Team at SpicyIP

Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor, Thumbnail Art

Praharsh Gour: Host, Researcher, Speaker

Sonisha Srinivasan: Editor, Speaker

Kartik Sharma, Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan, Ambika Aggarwal, Tanishka Goswami : Speakers

SpicyIP's Annual Review of 2025 with developments across different categories: https://spicyip.com/2025/12/a-look-ba..... You can check out this blogpost for all the reading materials .

The Annual Review Video is in three parts, divided based on three subject areas: Trademarks, Patents, and Copyright and Other IPs.

In this episode 04 (Part 2 of 3), the SpicyIP team reflects upon the most significant Patent Law Developments of 2025.

Developments covered

00:25- Communication Components Antenna Inc v. Ace Technologies Corp

02:25- Novenco Building And Industry A/S v. Xero Energy Engineering Solutions

03:59- Novo Nordisk As v. Dr. Reddys Laboratories Limited & Anr

05:55- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG & Anr. v. Natco Pharma Limited

07:45- Revocation order of Novartis’ Entresto Patent

10:02- Softgel Healthcare Private Limited v. Pfizer Inc & Anr

12:45- F- Hoffmann -La Roche Ag & Anr. v. Zydus Lifesciences Limited

14:26- IP Office releases Draft Guidelines for Processing Patent Applications of AYUSH Systems and Related Inventions

16:19- A Point-Based Performance Evaluation System for Examiners and Controllers

18:04- Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs)

19:42- CDSCO Invites Comments to Ensure a Level Playing Field in New Drug Approval

21:56- Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2025

23:09- Amendment to Section 4 of the Patent Act consequent to the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancementof Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, 2025

25:12- Developments concerning the Jurisdiction of the Competition Commission of India on Anti-competitive Patent Complaints

27:01- Incyte and Granules Settle Ruxolitinib Patent Infringement Dispute

28:23- Philips and Vivo Settled Their Long-Running SEP Dispute over 3G and 4G Technologies

31:27- Manpower Extension in the Indian Patent Office

Updates:

03:59 After the expiry of Novo Nordisk's patent in March 2026, they filed a new set of trademark and patent infringement suits against generic companies in the Delhi High Court

26:25 The decision of the Supreme Court on Swapan Dey v CCI is out. There are discussions that CCI can now investigate violations of Competition Act by exercise of patent rights, but the operation of the DB judgement which ousted CCI’s jurisdiction, however, has not been stayed.

1. Praharsh Gour, Khushi Krishania, Wonder Drug, Generic Price: What Semaglutide’s Patent Expiry Should Really Mean for India, https://spicyip.com/2026/03/wonder-drug-generic-price-what-semaglutides-patent-expiry-should-really-mean-for-india.html

2. Praharsh Gour, [SpicyIP Tidbit] Patent’s Gone, War’s On: Inside Novo Nordisk’s Semaglutide Litigation Blitz, https://spicyip.com/2026/03/spicyip-tidbit-patents-gone-wars-on-inside-novo-nordisks-semaglutide-litigation-blitz.html

3. Yogesh Byadwal, SC to decide CCI’s Jurisdiction over abuse of Patent Rights, https://spicyip.com/2026/02/sc-to-decide-ccis-jurisdiction-over-abuse-of-patent-rights.html

4. Supreme Court decision: https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2026/124/124_2026_7_11_68257_Order_02-Feb-2026.pdfYou can find Episode 4 Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/gCJfUUtbeI0?si=4E9Kc9eUvjql_BmB

Speakers:

Praharsh Gour is the Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP

Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan is an IP lawyer, and an Analyst at SpicyIP

Ambika Aggarwal is a Ph.D. (IP Law) scholar at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad , and a Tech Innovation Policy Fellow (2025) and Analyst at SpicyIP

Kartikeya Srivastava is a final-year law student in the LL.B. course at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru

Sonisha Srinivasan is a final year law student at Christ University, and a part of the Podcast Team at SpicyIP

Malobika Sen is a PhD candidate at WBNUJS, and an Analyst & 2024-25 Doctoral Fellow at SpicyIP

Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor, Thumbnail Art

Praharsh Gour: Host, Researcher, Speaker

Sonisha Srinivasan: Editor, Speaker

Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan, Ambika Aggarwal, Kartikeya Srivastava, Malobika Sen: Speakers

2025 was quite an eventful year, marked by novel developments across different areas of intellectual property law. Here is SpicyIP's Annual Review of 2025 with developments curated across different categories: https://spicyip.com/2025/12/a-look-back-at-indias-top-ip-developments-of-2025.html. You can check out this blogpost for all the reading materials linked to it.

We present to you an Annual Review Video in three parts that draw from the main blogpost. These are divided based on three subject areas: Trademarks, Patents, and Copyright and Other IPs.

In this episode 04 (Part 1 of 3), the SpicyIP team reflects upon the most significant Trademarks Developments of 2025, organised across three categories, with each speaker explaining why a particular development made it to our list:

a) Top IP Judgments/Orders by Topicality and/or Impact: These decisions reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem, etc.

b) Top IP Judgments/Orders by Jurisprudential Rigour and/ or Legal Lucidity: These decisions reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity.

c) Other IP Developments: Important developments which do not fall under any of the above categories

Developments covered

01:25- PART 1: JUDGMENTS/ORDERS BY TOPICALITY AND/OR IMPACT

01:34- More than 15 Personality Rights order passed in 2025

03:54- The three judgments in Lifestyles Equities CV v. Amazon Technologies Inc

05:56- Dabur India Limited v. Ashok Kumar And Ors

08:32- Trademark for Floral Fragrance/Smell Reminiscent of Roses as Applied to Tyres by Sumitomo Rubber Industries

10:47- PART 2: JURISPRUDENTIAL RIGOUR AND/OR LEGAL LUCIDITY

10:53- Paragon Polymer Products Private v. Sumar Chand Nahar

12:26- VIP Industries Ltd v. Carlton Shoes Ltd & Anr

15:24- Pernod Ricard India Private Limited v. Karanveer Singh Chhabra

17:20- PART 3: OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

17:24- Delhi High Court Upholds FSSAI’s ban on Using the Term “ORS” for Beverages that do not meet WHO Regulatory Standards

Updates:

03:37 The blogposts on some of the new personality rights orders are in the description

The following are the updates on some of the developments over the last three months:

1. Kartik Sharma, Issued in Public Interest: Your Name is Not a Copyrighted Work, https://spicyip.com/2026/03/issued-in-public-interest-your-name-is-not-a-copyrighted-work.html

2. Krisha Tiya Sahay, Rest in IP: Posthumous Personality Rights in the Age of Deepfakes, https://spicyip.com/2026/03/rest-in-ip-posthumous-personality-rights-in-the-age-of-deepfakes.html

3. Arjun Ishaan, A Course Correction? What Rangaraj and Kamal Haasan Get Right about Personality Rights, https://spicyip.com/2026/01/a-course-correction-what-rangaraj-and-kamal-haasan-get-right-about-personality-rights.html

Speakers from the SpicyIP Team:

Praharsh Gour is the Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP

Tanishka Goswami is an Officer Trainee (Law) at Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., and an Analyst & part of the Podcast Team at SpicyIP

Kartik Sharma is a final year law student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and an Analyst at SpicyIP

Kartikeya Srivastava is a final-year law student in the LL.B. course at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru

Sonisha Srinivasan is a final year law student at Christ University, and a part of the Podcast Team at SpicyIP

Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor, Thumbnail Art

Praharsh Gour: Host, Researcher, Speaker

Sonisha Srinivasan: Editor, Speaker

Tanishka Goswami, Kartik Sharma, Kartikeya Srivastava: Speakers

We had an open- for-all Book Review Symposium on "Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)". Edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, the book is one of the first solid cohesive attempt to look at IP narratives from South Asia.

This is Part 2 of the Book Review Symposium: Q&A session with discussions based on the review of the three parts of the book by our three panellists. (You can find the review in Part 1).

Questions from our audience members, including those who joined us live on LinkedIn, are also answered here. If you haven't watched Part 1 yet, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/eiwcOYiXWvE

You can also directly view the live session here: https://youtube.com/live/5HT4XRCgeVk?feature=share

The book was dedicated towards Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer. Swaraj Barooah is the Senior Expert at SpicyIP, and an IP Policy Consultant. He has a chapter in this book: "Intellectual Property and Social Justice: Remembering the Contributions of Prof Shamnad Basheer".

You can find the pre print version of this chapter here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6071187

Praharsh Gour, Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP, discusses the different parts of the book with the panellists Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal, and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang.

Shama Mahajan is an LLM candidate at NUS Singapore. She reviews Part 1 of the book "IP History and Development".

Akshat Agrawal: Founder and Counsel at AASA Chambers. He reviews Part 2 of the book "Developments in South Asia".

Ishupal Singh Kang: Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He reviews Part 3 of the book "Institutions, Courts and Practices".

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00:00- Introduction

00:17- Q & A from audience on Linkedin

09:17- A shift in industrial policy from innovation centric to inclusive development

19:05- Areas and avenues of discussion the book opens up

26:06- Significance of funding

28:41- Assetisation in the context of "commodification v cultural expression"

31:43- Concluding remarks

Reading materials:

1. Ntina Tzouvala , On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law, https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariffs-and-the-ends-of-international-economic-law/

2. Mario Biagioli , Weighing Intellectual Property: Can We Balance the Social Costs and Benefits of Patenting?, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3307623

3. Hyo Yoon Kang, Patents as Assets: Intellectual Property Rights as Market Subjects and Objects, in Assetization :Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/4848/chapter/625225/Patents-as-Assets-Intellectual-Property-Rights-as

4. Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa, Assetization :Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/4848/AssetizationTurning-Things-into-Assets-in

5. Lilly Irani, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3239b1qv

6. Elizabeth Rosenblatt, Theory of IP’s Negative Space, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1662661

7. Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman,The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878401

8. William W. Fisher, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment

Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor, Host

Praharsh Gour: Host, Researcher

Sonisha Srinivasan: Setup, Editor

Anjali Tripathi: Thumbnail Art

That time of the year is coming up again! Get ready for SpicyIP Summer School 2026, tentatively scheduled for the end of June in Bangalore.

SpicyIP conducted its first edition of the annual SpicyIP Summer School from June 21st to June 29th, 2025 at the lush green campus of Ecumenical Christian Centre, Whitefield, Bangalore, as an 8-day residential program for law students and professionals. The 2025 edition saw “Pharma Stack” and “Creativity, Culture and Contracts” as the two thematic focus areas.

Listen to what some of our alumini had to say about their experience of the first edition of Summer School!

Anandi Katiyar

Joshua Joseph

Ananya Srivastava

Ayush Shetty

Aathira Latha Jayan

Ashutosh Jha

Avani Girish Marudwar

Saraswathy Vaidyanathan

Here is a detailed event report of the summer school: https://spicyip.com/2025/07/event-report-of-the-inaugural-spicyip-summer-school.html

More details about the 2026 edition will be out in the coming days!

Credits: Swaraj Paul Barooah, Sonisha Srinivasan

We had an open- for-all Book Review Symposium on "Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)". Edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, the book is one of the first solid cohesive attempt to look at IP narratives from South Asia.

The book was dedicated towards Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer. Swaraj Barooah is the Senior Expert at SpicyIP, and an IP Policy Consultant. He has a chapter in this book: "Intellectual Property and Social Justice: Remembering the Contributions of Prof Shamnad Basheer". You can find the pre print version of this chapter here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

Praharsh Gour, Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP, discusses the different parts of the book with the panellists Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal, and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang.

This is Part 1 of the symposium where the three panellists review the three parts of the book. The QnA and discussion will be uploaded separately as Part 2. You can also directly view the live session here: https://youtube.com/live/5HT4XRCgeVk?...Shama Mahajan is an LLM candidate at NUS Singapore. She reviews Part 1 of the book "IP History and Development".

Akshat Agrawal: Founder and Counsel at AASA Chambers. He reviews Part 2 of the book "Developments in South Asia".

Ishupal Singh Kang: Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He reviews Part 3 of the book "Institutions, Courts and Practices".

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00:00- Introduction

02:42- A Dedication to Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer

13:07- Introduction to the speakers

14:20 - Title of the book

17:53 - Review of Part 1: "IP History and Development"

35:03 - Review of Part 2 : "Developments in South Asia"

52:35 - Review of Part 3: "Institutions, Courts and Practice"

Reading materials:

1. Shamnad Basheer,India's Tryst with Trips: The Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

2. Kung Chung Liu, IP Laws and Major Asian Economies

3. The Geographical Indication Hurdles That We Need to Talk About: ft Niharika Salar, Niharika Salar, SpicyIP TV, Let's IPsa Loquitur (Youtube),    • The Geographical Indication Hurdles That W...  

4. Lateef Mtima & Steven D. Jamar, A Social Justice Perspective on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

5. Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa, Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite...

6.Victor Roy, Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines, https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5...

7. Shamnad Basheer, Obsessing on Newness: The Death of Patents?https://spicyip.com/2018/01/obsessing...

8. Ntina Tzouvala , On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law, https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariff...

9. Amaka Vanni , Patent Games in the Global South:Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria

10. Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil

11. Jessica M. Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age

12. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Is IP Good for Our Planet?

13. Ruth L. Okediji , The International Relations of Intellectual Property”, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil...

Sonisha Srinivasan speaks to Ms. Niharika Salar about some of the practical challenges to the artisan communities like the gap between geographical indication registrations and actual empowerment, role of GI on livelihoods and revival of cultures, and quality control. The episode also covers the law (text) and some conceptual underpinnings in the context of India with real stories and thought-provoking insights.

About Ms. Niharika Salar:Ms. Niharika Salar, is a PhD scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. She has done extensive fieldwork with GI artisan communities. She is currently exploring the research frontiers of Intellectual Property Law, community rights and traditional weaving techniques. Prior to her doctoral pursuits, she served as an Assistant Professor at NALSAR University of Law (India), teaching courses to BA LLB & LLM students and supervising LLM thesis. An alumnus of National University of Singapore and National University of Study & Research in Law, India, her areas of research interest include Intellectual Property Law , socio-legal approaches to studying law and legal education. During her postgraduate studies at NUS Singapore, she was awarded the ‘Young Asian IP Scholar Award’ at the 5th Asian IP Works-In-Progress Conference Program, Hong Kong (2020).

All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand. If you want the formal language, then: This podcast is intended solely for informational and academic discussion purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create any attorney-client relationship

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Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor

Sonisha Srinivasan: Host, Researcher, Editor

Anjali Tripathi: Graphics, Media and Thumbnail Art

Tanishka Goswami: Graphics and Subtitles

Media Credits:

The images appearing at 05:56, 20:19, 23:08, 38:28, 45:58, and 43:16 are photographs clicked by Ms. Niharika Salar during her field work.

The maps appearing in this video are used for illustrative purpose only and have been sourced from https://surveyofindia.gov.in/pages/outline-maps-of-india

Sonisha Srinivasan speaks to Dr. Zakir Thomas about the intersection of Generative AI with Copyright law and Policy, Technology Sovereignty, Open Access to information and the broader regulatory challenges shaping the future of AI.

About Dr. Zakir Thomas:Dr. Zakir Thomas has 35 years of experience of working in the Government of India as an officer of Indian Revenue Service had been instrumental in some of the major policy initiatives in field of intellectual property as a former Registrar of Copyrights and the Project Director of Open Source Drug Discovery Project. He holds an MSc (Physics), LLB (Delhi University) and Master of Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology from Franklin Pierce Law Centre, University of New Hampshire, United States. He earned his PhD from the School of Social Sciences IGNOU, Delhi. He has authored several book chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals on Intellectual Property law and its interplay with open source innovation, pharmaceutical industry and copyright law. He was an invited faculty in WIPO seminars on Intellectual Property, delivered talks in the European Union Parliament, American Chemical Society and several other international fora. He was a faculty for a two credit course in NALSAR, Hyderabad. He has given talks in leading national institutions on copyright law, patent law and innovation. He has been the Indian delegate at WIPO and at the OECD tax forum. Dr Thomas is recipient of the Finance Ministers Award (2017), the highest honour conferred by the Income Tax department. Prior to retirement, he was Director General (Systems) of the Income Tax department, leading one of the largest e-governance projects in the country.All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand. If you want the formal language, then: This podcast is intended solely for informational and academic discussion purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create any attorney-client relationship.

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List of Additional Readings:-

Akshat Agrawal, ANI Media v. Open AI : The Opt-Out Strategy https://spicyip.com/2024/11/ani-media-v-open-ai-the-opt-out-strategy.html

Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain, Indian Copyright Law and Generative AI https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5028835

Goutham Rajeev and Vedant Bharadwaj Singh, Training GenAI: Infringement or Fair Use? https://spicyip.com/2024/04/training-genai-infringement-or-fair-use.html

Varsha Jhawar, An IP-Centric Approach towards AI Regulation in India- Part II https://spicyip.com/2023/05/an-ip-centric-approach-towards-ai-regulation-in-india-part-ii.html

US President Trump’s Executive Order, Removing Barriers To American Leadership In Artificial Intelligence https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/

Aman Gupta, Apple faces copyright lawsuit over training Apple Intelligence AI on pirated books: What we know so far https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/apple-faces-copyright-lawsuit-over-training-apple-intelligence-ai-on-pirated-books-what-we-know-so-far-11757251724012.html

Jean Gil Barroca and Alfons Buxo, Cloud sovereignty: Three imperatives for the European public sector https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/technology-management/cloud-sovereignty-three-imperatives-for-the-european-public-sector.html

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Our blogger Tanishka Goswami hosts the 1st episode in our Let's IPsa Loquitur series, bringing in Adyasha Samal and Akshat Agrawal, to discuss some on-going developments that surely everyone in the IP world has taken note of - the surge of "Personality Rights" cases. While this is no doubt good for lawyers, what does it mean for law, policy or society? In this 45 min episode, they touch upon various angles and facets of this question, as well as how it intersects with cultural meaning making, deep-fakes, free speech and other related issues.

About our Speakers:

Adyasha is a researcher at the Institute for European Tort Law in Vienna, Austria. Previously, she worked at AZB and partners in the areas of IP and data protection law. Adyasha has been associated with SpicyIP for several years now and was a student fellow in 2020-21.

Akshat is the founder and counsel at AASA Law Chambers. He possesses comprehensive experience in IP laws, having worked as a senior associate at Sai Krishna and Associates, as a Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow, as a counsel at the Chambers of Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta and as a judicial law clerk to Justice Prathiba Singh. He holds a BA LLB honours from Jindal Global Law School and an LL.M. in IP Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

All views expressed here by the speakers are in their personal capacity, and in general are to be considered as curious engagement with the subject at hand. In more formal language: This podcast is intended solely for informational and academic discussion purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create any attorney-client relationship.

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List of Referenced Blogposts and Related Readings from the Episode: (The hyperlinks work even though they look broken!)

1. https://spicyip.com/2017/08/the-supreme-courts-privacy-judgment-elevates-personality-rights-to-the-constitutional-plane.html

2. https://spicyip.com/2025/06/delhi-hcs-orders-in-sadhguru-ankur-warikoo-cases-what-indian-courts-are-getting-wrong-about-personality-rights.html

3. https://spicyip.com/2025/10/unpacking-meitys-proposed-it-rules-amendments-between-regulation-and-practicality.html

4. https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/act-and-policies/amendments-to-the-information-technologyintermediary-guidelines-and-digital-media-ethics-code-rules-2021-it-rules-2021-IjN4QjMtQWa?pageTitle=Amendments-to-the-Information-Technology-(Intermediary-Guidelines-andDigital-Media-Ethics-Code)-Rules,-2021-(IT-Rules,-2021)

5. https://spicyip.com/2023/05/world-of-possibilities-single-judge-bench-of-delhi-high-court-allows-use-of-celebrity-information-available-in-public-domain.html

6. https://spicyip.com/2024/05/after-anil-kapoor-jackie-shroff-follows-suit-taking-a-look-at-the-recent-dhc-order-from-the-perspective-of-personality-rights-right-to-livelihood.html

7. https://spicyip.com/2013/09/cold-news-for-cricket-score-monopolies.html

8. https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2959&context=faculty_scholarship

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Connect with us on our socials: https://x.com/spicyip https://www.linkedin.com/company/spicyip/ https://www.instagram.com/spicyipblog/ https://www.youtube.com/@SpicyIPTV

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Credits:

Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Director, Editor

Sonisha Srinivasan: Researcher, Editor

Tanishka Goswami: Host, Researcher

Anjali Tripathi: Thumbnail Art