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Competition Law

PROCEDURAL BATTLEGROUNDS FOR THE CCI: OBSTRUCTION, EPHEMERAL DATA, AND BYOD IN DAWN RAIDS

Abhishek Nidasanametla When the Knock Comes: What India’s Competition Regime Isn’t Ready For In recent years, competition authorities abroad have started to treat ‘obstruction’ during dawn raids (“raid”) as a standalone infringement. Very recently, in Finland, the Market Court upheld a fine of EUR 1.5 million against Attendo Suomi after an employee deleted WhatsApp messages and […]

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Privacy Law Technology

AGE CHECKS OR PRIVACY WRECKS? DECODING RULE 10 OF DPDP DRAFT RULES, 2025

Kinjal Ahuja and Ashish Rawat “We cannot have a system, or even the appearance of system, where surveillance is secret, or where decisions are made about individuals by a Kafkaesque system of opaque and unreviewable decision-makers” – Reyna and Farley, 2006, p.43 Introduction India’s first dedicated data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, […]

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Intellectual Property

AI, Smart Contracts, and Blockchain: The New Frontier of Intellectual Property Management

Mathews Verghese & Anisha Mishra Introduction The introduction of smart contracts, self – executing and self – enforcing mechanisms, post the Bitcoin boom of 2008, rallied a revolution within the technological industry. It provided methodology, to ensure compliance of contractual terms and maintenance of trust within parties. These contracts relied on pre – programmed sequences, […]

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Arbitration

AI Integration and Legal Challenges in International Arbitration: A Global Public Policy Analysis

Abeer Sharma & Vishwas Kumar Tripathi Introduction International Arbitration (IA), which has experienced recent growth, can be described as a form of arbitration where parties opt for private international arbitrators instead of national courts. The IA is generally governed by individual state arbitral laws and global frameworks such as the UNCITRAL Model Law, and the […]

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Intellectual Property Technology

From ‘who’ to ‘what’: Proposed Paradigm shift in Patent Law

By Aditya Gupta   “The short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all” – Stephen Hawking[1] Introduction As abstract and far-fetched as it may sound, two patents have been filed before the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and […]