Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj
is an assistant professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University and co-director of Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition (JIRICO)—a think-tank focused on frontline research on issues at the interface of high technology, patents and antitrust. He writes extensively on the role of technology and innovation in shaping societies, green technology, SEP/FRAND litigation and technical standards. He is an affiliated faculty at the Center for Intellectual Property Research, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University (Bloomington), USA and a visiting professor at the Institute for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). He holds a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich); European Master in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands and the University of Manchester, UK; Master in Economic Sciences from Anna University, India; and a BA Honors in Economicsfrom Delhi University, India.
Dr. Vishwas Devaiah
is an associate professor at the Jindal Global Law School, Executive Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (CIPTEL) and Managing Editor of the journal Jindal Global Law Review, published by Springer. Vishwas’s primary areas of interest are patent law, health law and biotechnology law. He has published widely and serves as a reviewer for the Asian Comparative Law Journal, the NUJS Law Review and the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, UK; an LLM degree from Warwick University, UK; and Bachelor of Law (BAL, LL.B.) degrees from University Law College, Bangalore University, Bangalore. His Ph.D. research was on the regulation of human embryonic stem cell research, titled ‘Protecting egg donors and patients in human embryonic stem cell research: A critical analysis of the current and proposed regulation in India.’
Dr. Indranath Gupta
is an associate professor and assistant director of the Centre for Postgraduate Legal Studies and at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Dr. Gupta received his LL.B. degree from the University of Calcutta, India; holds an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen, UK; and a postgraduate research LLM in Computer Law from the University of East Anglia, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from Brunel University, London, UK. Dr. Gupta has been involved in qualitative and quantitative research. He was appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Dr. Gupta has also worked as an advocate in a solicitor’s firm at the Calcutta High Court. He has published in European and Indian law journals and has spoken at international conferences and seminars. His research areas include database right, copyright, data protection, cyber law and interfaceof IP and competition law.
