The Indian government is thinking to open their door for foreign companies to invest in India. Here I have prepared some arguments for analysing this whole FDI issue. v Positive arguments: Because of the investment of foreign companies, job opportunities in areas like marketing, agro-processing, pac...

REDEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING SOCIETIES: ARE GOVT. GUIDELINES REALLY PERSUASIVE AND CONVINCING? With a view to ensure transparency in Societies seeking to undertake redevelopment projects, the Government of Maharashtra had issued a Circular bearing No. CHS 2007/CR554/14-C, Co-operation, Marketing and Tex...

“Competent to contract” This is one thing that almost everyone who has covered even a minute portion of contracts would know. Why I am writing a blog on this topic is not because I want to brag about my legal knowledge here, because there is nothing to brag about. Every law student would probably kn...

We are all aware of what an Old Wives’ Tale means. The lame excuses that are often given by our politicians in defence of any questionable behaviour, statement or act on their part, have inspired me to coin the phrase New Wives’ Tale . I have chosen an incident, relatively less detrimental in degree...

I will begin with to say- (1) A note was struck by Apex Court in Superintending Engineer, Public health, U.T. Chandigarh V Kuldeep Singh, 1997 AIR 2133, 1997(9)SCC 199, when it observed: “Every Public servant is a trustee of the society; and in all facets of public administration – every public serv...

India Patent Office (IPO) has called for comments from the stakeholders as a precursor to a meeting and possibly revision of applicable rules/forms, regarding working statements practice. The working statements practice (under the Patents Act 1970) requires patentees to report to the patent office the extent to which the patented invention has been worked. This note explains the related issues starting with the examination of the governing law.