"The Intellectual Property Appeallate Board (IPAB) is the cynosure - TopicsExpress



          

"The Intellectual Property Appeallate Board (IPAB) is the cynosure of international eyes. Under the leadership of a much admired Justice Sridevan, it recently upheld a landmark compulsory licensing order involving an excessively priced cancer drug. And it continues to proffer bold jurisprudence time and again! Unfortunately, Justice Sridevan notwithstanding, this body is patently unconstitutional, rendering its orders legally suspect! We pointed this out in a writ petition two years ago. Despite our best efforts, the matter has simply not made any headway at the Madras High Court! And in the interim, a blatantly unconstitutional body continues to surf the IP wave, delivering one IP judgment after another. Worse still, the IPAB continues to face a severe resource crunch, including a space constraint that caused some broken bones, amongst other calamaties. And in the meantime, an IP ecosystem comprising some of the finest attorneys, judges, policy makers, civil society activists and other public spirited souls sit back and do nothing!"
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:07:18 +0000

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