Murali's Writeups...

1. This will be my third blog on Mr Kulbhushan Jadhav . Two years ago, within a span of seven days, I wrote two blogs on Kulbhushan Jadhav . The first was relating to the trivia that surrounded the ICJ Judgement, permanently staying the Pakistani military court’s order that sentenced Kulbhushan Jadhav to death. The other was more specifically focused on some of the evidentiary law aspects of the sordid saga of Kulbhushan Jadhav investigation by Pakistani authorities. Every blogger desires that even their old blogs should be read and reread! I am no exception; hence, I am providing you with the links to my earlier blogs ( International and Evidentiary Laws implication of ICJ Judgment of Mr Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case ) ( Some reflections on the International Court of Justice Judgment on Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case ).  2. An executive summary of ICJ judgement in Kulbhushan Jadhav ’s case . a. Mr Harish Salve, the superstar international lawyer, made many Indian lawyers proud. He char

  PATENT WAVIER FOR COVID-19 RELATED INVENTIONS-- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING?? Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Famous Speech at WHO 1. As of today, i.e., 8 rd June 2021 there have been 3.76 million confirmed COVID-19 deaths, Undocumented deaths would easily be double the number. Since COVID-19 leads to permanent damage to the lungs and overall immunity, at least another 20 million human lives would have been lost before the end of this year. The scale of death is as immense as in the World Wars. So, rightly there have been demands that given the magnitude of the global pandemic, COVID-19 related inventions should be outside the ambit of patenting. Mrs Indira Gandhi, once declared before WHO that those inventions that save millions of human lives should not be driven for profits and that they must be available to all people around the world at no cost, if not, at an affordable cost. Now it is left to her BJP successor Prime Minister Mr Modi to amplify Mrs Gandhi’s earlier demand, this time at a ne