Posted on May 3, 2021 Co-authored by Melita Tessy & Vivek Basanagoudar* Introduction WhatsApp has over 2 billion users worldwide and is used in over 180 countries, making it the world’s most popular messaging app. With over 400 million users, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market. In January this year, WhatsApp released its new privacy policy […]
Posted on February 8, 2021 Authored by Rushil Anand* On 22nd January 2021, Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) published the “Market Study On The Telecom Sector In India” (“Study”). The study, initiated in January 2020, analyses the telecom sector from an antitrust perspective in the wake of the significant development the sector has witnessed in […]
Posted on January 26, 2021 Authored by Rushil Anand* Introduction The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways recently issued the draft of the Indian Ports Bill, 2020 (“Bill”) for public consultation. The Bill aims to enable growth and development of the ports and ensure proper utilization of country’s coastline, which has been marred by a […]
Posted on November 25, 2020 Authored by Manika Dayal* Introduction Standard Essential Patents (“SEP’s”) and FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms under licencing agreements in recent times have exponentially risen to prominence, especially in the Information and Computer Technology ( “ICT”) sectors as well as the telecommunications industry. The myriad of issues that have been […]
Posted on October 22, 2020 Co-authored by Shobana Iyer* and Tanya Garg* Introduction On 26 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) delivered the much-awaited landmark decision in Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd; Huawei Technologies Co Ltd v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL; ZTE Corporation v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL[1] […]
Posted on September 19, 2020 Authored by Tanya Varshney* Acknowledgement: Thanks to Prof. (Dr.) Manveen Singh* for sharing his inputs and reviewing this article. In simple terms, Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) are the patents that have been declared as “essential” to implement the industry or technology standards and ensure uniformity and compatibility in the technology […]
Posted on September 17, 2020 Authored by Preethika Nannapaneni* What is ‘Forum Shopping’? In lay-man terms, forum shopping is an act of “choosing” (amongst the possible options) which court to file your case before; to get a favourable outcome. While the Indian legal statutes do not specifically address ‘forum shopping’, it is a settled judicial […]
Posted on August 1, 2020 Authored by Tanya Garg Introduction On 22 July 2020, the business-messaging app, Slack Technologies Inc. filed an antitrust complaint (“Complaint”) against Microsoft Corporation with the European Commission (“Commission”), European Union’s (“EU”) apex competition watchdog. “Slack” is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Slack Technologies. Under the European rules, the […]
Posted on July 20, 2020 Authored by Tanya Garg, recent law graduate from Symbiosis Law School Pune. Apple Inc. has been under fire several times before for the preferential way in which it operates marketplaces by setting rules in a way that benefits the company at the expense of others. After many years of discriminatory […]
