This Public Lecture is on the topic “Swami Vivekananda’s Defense of Religion as a Science.” The event will be held in Room 202 of the Old Academic Block at the NLSIU campus. Those who are unable to attend the event in person can view the live stream of the public lecture on NLSIU’s official YouTube channel.
Swami Medhananda, Senior Research Fellow, Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education
The lecture will be delivered on March 23, 2022 on the topic ‘Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.’
Prof. Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), and edited or coedited a number of others. His most recent books are Christian Human Rights (2015), based on Mellon Distinguished Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2014, and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). His newest book is Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). Over the years he has written in venues such as Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to ‘Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell us About Modern India’ on March 17, 2022 at 5 PM.
The speaker, Rukmini S is an independent data journalist.
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India) along with the Chair on Intellectual Property Rights and CIPRA, NLSIU, is organising a Round Table on ‘Trade Secret Protection in India: Road Map for a Legislation.’
Trade Secrets as an intellectual property right plays a key role in the protection of business interests of an organization. The potential of Trade secrets is immeasurable, at same time the loss incurred after the theft of the trade secret is also immeasurable. Current online model of working, which became a new normal all-round the world raises many challenges considering safe preserving and protection of business models, Trade secrets. Remote working model challenges the need for the more strict and better model for the protection of Trade secrets. In India Protection of Trade secrets is a big challenge which needs to be addressed.
Unlike other Intellectual properties like patents, trademarks etc., In India, there is no statute or legislation that governs the protection of trade secrets. However, rights in respect of trade secrets are enforced through contract law (Indian Contract Act, 1872)principles of equity or by way of a common law action for breach of confidence.
Trade Secret Protection is one of the key points mentioned under 3rd Objective of the National IPR policy. On 23rd July 2021 a report submitted to the Parliament of India titled “Review of Intellectual property rights regime in India”( 161st REPORT) report highlighted the need for a separate legal framework for protection of Trade secrets as trade secret protection lacks clarity on several aspects.
Further, the report suggested for “A Separate legislation “on trade secrets, highlighted the significance of a separate legislation in protecting business environment and attracting business investments in India. India is also a signatory of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). Under article 39(2), TRIPs allow members the flexibility to frame laws that prevent the unauthorized disclosure and use of certain information.
Law researchers, Law faculty and students, IP Attorneys, lawyers, and other interested participants.
Inaugural Session
2.00 pm – 2.05 pm – Welcome & Opening remarks
Prof. (Dr.) T. Ramakrishna, Chair Professor, IP-Chair, NLSIU
2.05 pm – 2.10 pm – Presidential Address
Prof. (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, NLSIU, Bengaluru.
2.10 pm -2.15 pm – Inaugural Address
Ms. Shruti Singh, (TBC) Joint Secretary, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industries, GoI
2.15 pm -2.20 pm- Special Address
Mr. Karan Thapar (TBC), Deputy Secretary, DPIIT, GoI
2.20 pm -2.25 pm – Special Address
Mr. John Cabeca (TBC), U.S .Intellectual Property Counselor for South Asia.
2.25 pm -2.30 pm – Vote of thanks
Session I
2.30 pm – 2.45 pm – Trade Secrets: Analyzing its position in the IP Landscape,
Chair: Prof. Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli, CEO, Vision -IPR, India.
2.45 pm -3.00 pm – a) Conceptual Clarity on Trade secret: Confidential Information and Trade secret
Dr. Niharika Sahoo Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur.
3.00 pm – 3.15 pm – b) Gaps in Existing Legal framework for protection of Trade secrets
Dr. S.K Murthy, Patent Counsel, Intel India, India
3.15 pm -3.30 pm – c) Trade Secret as an IP
Prof. Sudipta De Sarkar, Associate Dean(TP), HOD, Dept. Of IPR Law and Practice, School of Law, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha
3.30 pm -3.40 pm – Q & A
Session – II
3.40 pm– 3.55 pm -Trade Secrets : Need for Protection
Chair: Prof. Dr. Mark Schultz,University of Akron School of Law, Ohio, USA
3.55 pm – 4.10 pm – a) Position in other jurisdictions
Ms. Ankita Tyagi, Deputy Head, IP & Projects at European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC)
4.10 pm – 4.25 pm – b) Best practices and enforcement
Mr. Dinesh Sharma, (TBC), Senior IP Policy Advisor- India, USPTO
4.25 pm -4. 40 pm – c) A framework for India?
Mr. Pranshu Negi, Research Scholar , NLSIU, Bangalore
4.40 pm– 4.50 pm – Q &A
Session – III
4.50 pm– 5.05 pm – Trade secret protection in the Digital contest
Chair : Mr. M.S. Bharath, Founder, KRIA Law
5.05 pm – 5.20 pm – a) Vulnerability of Trade secrets
Ms Divya Kumat , Executive Vice President, Chief legal officer & Company Secretary,Datamatics Global Services Limited.
5.20 pm – 5. 35 pm – b) Emerging technologies in protecting Trade secrets
Dr. Vijaya Sarathy, Growth leader, Technology Incubation at GE
5.35 pm – 5.50 pm – c) Post Covid Challenges
Ms. Chitra Iyer, Director/ Licensing Program Leader-India, Philips India Limited.
5.50 pm – 6.05 pm – Post covid Challenges (Pharma/ Biotechnology prospective)
Dr. Arshad Jamil, Vice President – IPR, Biocon Biologics Limited.
6.10 pm – Vote of Thanks & Conclusion
Jnana Teja Bandi,
Research Associate, DPIIT Chair on IPR
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Jothsna Chikkodi
Research Associate, DPIIT Chair on IPR
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to ‘Double Feminist Book Salon’ on 17th December 2021 from 5 PM to 6.30 PM.
NLSIU Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dr. Atreyee Majumder, will be a discussant at the session.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on ‘The Politics of Expendability: State Suppression of Police Workers in India’ by Prof. Beatrice Jauregui on December 8, 2021 at 6 pm.
Prof. Beatrice Jauregui is Associate Professor at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, University of Toronto.
Building on theorization of police in contemporary India as “expendable servants” (Jauregui 2016), this paper analyzes government responses to attempts by police constables to express job-related grievances and establish employee unions. Drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and archival documents collected in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi over fifteen years, the analysis demonstrates that for more than a century, class warfare within police organizations has manifested in counterinsurgency lawfare between senior officials and subordinate personnel regarding whether and how the latter may collectively organize to transform their living and working conditions. It further shows how in this context the law subjectifies rank and file police as an ironically exploitable class of laborers who are always already suspect of rebelling against the state that they have sworn to serve. Through revelations of a long history of structural servitude compelling subaltern police in South Asia to do questionably legal types of work, this study raises challenging questions about how police as expendable workers have been conceived and practiced globally, and how, moving forward, we must work to reimagine what police work is, can be, and ought to be in India and beyond.
The Faculty Seminar was held on September 8, 2021.
Dr. Anwesha Ghosh, Assistant Professor, History, NLSIU
This paper highlights the role of the Municipal Corporation in Calcutta’s urban development in the second half of the nineteenth century. Specifically, it focuses on the aspect of “modernisation” as evident in the transformation of Calcutta’s prosperous Dhurrumtollah Bazaar into the city’s first municipal market. The paper discusses the multiform technologies of governance deployed by the municipality (municipal governmentality) in this elaborate task of improving Calcutta’s built environment. It argues that beneath the municipality’s grandiose sanitisation and beautification plans lay a more intricate arrangement of disciplining and economizing “errant” and “corrupt” bazaar economies to conform to the logic of the modern market. Using Market Committee Reports and contemporary literary fiction as chief primary sources, ‘Marking the Market’ is an invitation to rethink questions of modernity and informality — two popular themes in colonialist historiography — not as mutually exclusive but rather as co-constitutive categories.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on ‘Dimapur Matters’ by Dolly Kikon and Duncan McDuie-Ra on November 24, 2021 at 3 pm.
Dolly Kikon is an anthropologist. She teaches at the University of Melbourne.
Duncan McDuie-Ra is professor of urban studies at the University of Newcastle with an interest in urban cultures.
The presentation discusses their recent book titled ‘Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism and Urbanism in Dimapur’ (Nagaland, India) through the fluid meanings of particular spaces in the city, and the embodied experiences of the city by its residents. The authors use a description of a single site as the catalyst for drawing these parts together; the collapsed bridge over the Chathe River at Naga United Village in Dimapur’s east. At the collapsed bridge, the visions of Dimapur as a cohesive urban space, as city-like, meet the reality of its patchwork of places demarcated and governed as distinct units. The common spaces in between fall into disrepair, a locus for community frustrations materialized in concrete slabs in the riverbed, and an ornate village gate leading nowhere.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Legal Personality’ by Prof. Simon Chesterman. The talk will take place on Thursday, November 18, 2021 from 5.00 PM to 6.00 PM.
Prof. Simon Chesterman, Dean and Provost’s Chair Professor of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Senior Director of AI Governance at AI Singapore. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Co-President of the Law Schools Global League.
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated and play a larger role in society, arguments that they should have some form of legal personality gain credence. It has been suggested that this will fill an accountability gap created by the speed, autonomy, and opacity of AI. In addition, a growing body of literature considers the possibility of AI systems owning the intellectual property that they create. The arguments are typically framed in instrumental terms, with comparisons to juridical persons such as corporations. Implicit in those arguments, or explicit in their illustrations and examples, is the idea that as AI systems approach the point of indistinguishability from humans they should be entitled to a status comparable to natural persons. This presentation contends that although most legal systems could create a novel category of legal persons, such arguments are insufficient to show that they should.
Please register in advance for this meeting with the link provided above. You will receive Zoom details once you register.
The full paper is available here.
The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on ‘ Coding Nature’s Code‘ by Prof. Katharina Pistor. The event will take place on Thursday, October 11, 2021 from 5.00 PM to 6.00 PM.
Prof. Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School & Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Katharina Pistor is a leading scholar and writer on corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions.
The legal code can also be used to code knowledge, including of nature’s own code, by legally enclosing it to the exclusion of others. Most intellectual property rights are of only limited duration so that the fountain of wealth they create will dry out eventually. Still, there are ways to prolong their life span by altering some features of the original invention, or by recoding them with legal modules that do not have an expiration date, such as trade secrecy law.
The paper is available here.
