ISSUE 4 - JUNE 26/2025 - SEPTEMBER 26/2025
PATENT LICENSING 2.0: LEGAL FEASIBILITY AND CHALLENGES OF SMART CONTRACTS IN THE IP ECONOMY
AUTHOR’S NAME – Cheran S, B. Com LL.B. (Hons.), Third Year.
INSTITUTION NAME – SRM School of Law, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu.
Received on 25 June 2025, Accepted on 27 June 2025, Published on 4 July 2025
ABSTRACT:
The traditional way of patenting has become an old story today, and the globe is fast-forwarding everything with AI and recent technological advances. The patenting industry also needs some real V8 engines to catch up with the other industries. The traditional patent licensing is soaked in written agreements and manual enforcement, which creates inefficiency in the total scope of the patent licensing. This paper explores the revolutionary idea of using smart contracts, which are self-executing agreements powered by blockchain, in patent licensing, as they will cure the disease of inefficiency and diagnose the costly manual enforcement. This paper particularly focuses on the Indian context by incorporating the common law interpretations, and the paper concludes by recommending legislative reforms to recognize smart contracts in the patent laws and incorporating smart contracts in the patent licensing with the help of the existing framework of TRAI’s use of smart contracts in the telecom industry.
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 04 /July/ 2025 )
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CYBERSECURITY LAWS IN INDIA- OUTDATED?
AUTHOR’S NAME – Akshit Dev Singh, B.A.LL.B, Second Year.
INSTITUTION NAME – Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur.
Received on 18 June 2025, Accepted on 20 June 2025, Published on 7 July 2025
ABSTRACT:
In this world where almost everything revolves around technology, and technology is rapidly advancing at a very fast rate, these advancements have made our lives easier. It has given rise to cybersecurity issues and various cyberattacks. This paper will discuss the state of cybersecurity in India and the legal framework related to it, like the Information Technology Act 2000 and the more recent Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. While the Information Technology Act deals with cyber-related issues but it has become outdated over a period of time, and this paper highlights new threats like AI-driven attacks, multi-stage intrusions, and ransomware, and IT Act inefficiency handling these cases. This paper also talks about India’s cooperation globally and how it has helped build international relations with other countries.
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 07 /July/ 2025 )
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GLOBAL CYBERSPACE GOVERNANCE: HARMONIZING AI REGULATIONS ALONG WITH IPR PROTECTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN THE DIGITAL REALM.
AUTHOR’S NAME – Maitri Shail Patel, Ph.D.
INSTITUTION NAME – Research Scholar, GLS University, Gujarat.
AUTHOR’S NAME – Dr. Sonal Raval, Ph.D.
AFFILIATION OF AUTHOR – Assistant Professor, GLS University, Gujarat.
Received on 28 July 2025, Accepted on 14 July 2025, Published on 17 July 2025
ABSTRACT:
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered transformative changes across sectors, redefining innovation, artistic expression, and the contours of legal rights, particularly in the realms of intellectual property and privacy.[1] Simultaneously, the exponential growth of cyberspace has rendered it a global common operating beyond traditional sovereign boundaries, raising complex jurisdictional and regulatory questions.[2] This expansion, however, is accompanied by increasing fragmentation in global governance over digital technologies, with divergent national frameworks, conflicting standards, and limited multilateral consensus undermining cohesive regulation.[3] These developments collectively underscore the urgency for harmonized, inclusive, and adaptive governance mechanisms to manage emerging techno-legal paradigms. The disjointed and siloed regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intellectual Property (IP), and Human Rights (HR) presents a critical challenge in the digital age, as fragmented legal frameworks fail to adequately address the complex, overlapping issues arising at their intersection.
[1] WIPO, https://www.wipo.int/publications/en/details.jsp?id=4386 (last visited on July 1, 2025).
[2] Jack L. Goldsmith & Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, Columbia Law School (July 1, 2025, 8:00 P.M.) https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/175/.
[3] UN digital library, https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3865925?ln=en&v=pdf (last visited on July 1, 2025).
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 17 /July/ 2025 )
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THE PUNISHMENT COMMUNITY SERVICE UNDER THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023: AN INSTRUMENT FOR AGRARIAN REFORM AND RURAL REHABILITATION
AUTHOR’S NAME – Dr. Amitesh Anand.
AFFILIATION OF AUTHOR – Associate Professor, College of Law, IIMT University, Meerut.
Received on 19 June 2025, Accepted on 27 June 2025, Published on 21 July 2025
ABSTRACT:
The recently enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, has introduced community service as a form of punishment, a provision notably absent in the Indian Penal Code, 1860. In a densely populated country like India, this initiative by the Government of India marks a progressive shift towards restorative and rehabilitative justice. This paper analyzes the legal provisions related to community service under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and attempts to examine the potential of integrating community service into rural and agrarian contexts of India as a means of contributing both criminal rehabilitation and the upliftment of rural communities with existing agrarian reform programs. It further examines the scope of implementing community service punishments in rural agrarian contexts and highlights the socio-legal challenges in enforcing this provision, including administrative gaps and community acceptance.
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 21 /July/ 2025 )
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SHAKING THE BOARDROOM: SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM IN INDIA’S CORPORATE PRISM
AUTHOR’S NAME – Tanush S Patil, BALL.B (Hons.), 4th Year.
INSTITUTION NAME – CHRIST University, Pune, Lavasa, Maharashtra.
Received on 8 July 2025, Accepted on 10 July 2025, Published on 28 July 2025
ABSTRACT:
“Shareholders are not just passive investors; they are guardians of corporate conscience.”
In India’s changing corporate governance scenario, shareholder activism has come to play as a strong tool to combat entrenched management practices, seek transparency, and encourage ethical corporate behaviour. This research paper looks into the emergence of shareholder activism in India, tracing its origins to the international trends of corporate governance and placing it within the domestic regulatory environment defined by the Companies Act, 2013, and SEBI reforms. The study explores how empowered investors, ranging from institutional players to retail shareholders, are leveraging legal provisions, proxy advisory services, and collaborative engagement to influence corporate decision-making.
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 28 /July/ 2025 )
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THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL EFFECT OF ABORTION RIGHTS IN INDIA
AUTHOR’S NAME – Dr. Sarita Chandel Sewaiwar
AFFILIATION OF AUTHOR – Assistant Professor, Bhaskar Law College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana
Received on 1 August 2025, Accepted on 4 August 2025, Published on 17 August 2025
ABSTRACT:
Abortion is legal in India, but in India, there are some conditions in the MTP Act 1971. According to that, if you are doing an abortion that is not an offense, but if you are doing illegal, then that is an offense under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)[1]. If you see so many effects, legal and social. If you got pregnancy before marriage or by rape so that type of pregnancy is not accept in society, so that reason abortion is need for women and so many other reason women need abortion, this is under your constitution we have body right, If I don’t want pregnancy so, we can abort pregnancy but that is not easy that much.
[1] Bhartiya Naya Sanhita Act, 3, No. 45 of 2023, Act of Parliament (India).
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 17 /August/ 2025 )
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DRUG TRAFFICKING, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND INTELLIGENCE: A STRATEGIC AND LEGAL ANALYSIS
AUTHOR’S NAME – Dr. Rajesh Kumar Verma.
AFFILIATION OF AUTHOR – Associate Professor, School of Legal Studies, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow.
CO-AUTHOR’S NAME – Advocate Bandana Singh.
AFFILIATION OF AUTHOR – Lucknow Bench, High Court at Allahabad, Lucknow
Received on 7 August 2025, Accepted on 11 August 2025, Published on 21 August 2025
ABSTRACT:
This paper critically examines the evolving nexus between drug trafficking, national security, and intelligence, with a specific focus on India’s strategic vulnerabilities. It explores how drug trafficking has transcended criminal justice boundaries to become a potent threat to state sovereignty, internal stability, and international order. By analysing the role of domestic and global intelligence networks, the paper emphasizes the growing reliance on technological tools such as Artificial Intelligence, financial surveillance, and digital forensics in combating increasingly sophisticated drug syndicates. Through case studies from India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and West Africa, the study illustrates the transnational nature of narcotics networks and their integration with terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime. The article also identifies key operational and legal challenges—including darknet transactions, encrypted communications, and institutional corruption—that hinder effective enforcement
( Volume 3 Issue 4 – 2025 )( Publication Date 21 /August/ 2025 )
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