Prof. Souradeep Mukhopadhyay
October 6, 2023 2024-08-27 4:51Prof. Souradeep Mukhopadhyay
Prof. Souradeep Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Dean (Research & Innovation)
B.A. LL.B. (Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab);
LL.M. (Harvard Law School)
Prof. Souradeep Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Dean (Research & Innovation) at Jindal Global Law School. An intellectual property, data privacy and technology law enthusiast, he holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. LL.B. degree from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, where he was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Gold Medal as well as the Justice Kesho Ram Passey’s Medal for Best Overall Performance.
Before joining Harvard, Prof. Mukhopadhyay was a Senior Associate in the litigation department of Anand & Anand, one of India’s leading intellectual property law firms. During his time at the firm, he regularly represented clients before the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India, as well as in complex mediations and negotiations. He has vast experience in advising and representing clients from a wide array of industries, including social media giants, major FMCG players, automobile manufacturers and innovator pharmaceutical companies.
- Legal Basis for Personality Rights in India – The Repercussions of Unreasoned Decisions’, SpicyIP (17 April, 2023)
- ‘Samir Agarwal v. Competition Commission of India: The Supreme Court of India sets straight the locus standi requirement before the CCI’, Journal of Innovation, Competition and Information Law (Edition IX, 2021)
- ‘Surrogate advertising: ASCI issues fresh guidelines for brand extension advertisements’, Asia IP (31 May, 2021)
- ‘Sandbox for personal data protection: India aims to foster innovation, ensure privacy, achieve transparency’, Asia IP (28 February, 2021)
- ‘Copyright implications of sharing photographs, videos and other content on social media’, Asia IP (31 August, 2020)
- ‘American Rule of Reason in the Indian Competition Regime’, Journal of Innovation, Competition and Information Law (Edition VI, July, 2020).
- Chief Student Editor, ‘Contemporary Environmental Concerns: Multi-Disciplinary Aspects of Environmental Law’, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab (Volume 1, 2020), ISBN 978-93-84166-31-1.
- ‘India e-Commerce: Liability for platforms is coming at last’, World Intellectual Property Review (September, 2019)
- ‘Competition Aspects of Indian Patent Law: An Analysis of Provisions and Issues’, National Law University Orissa-Student Law Journal (Volume 3, Issue 1) ISSN 2305-062X.
- ‘International Protection of Patents: New Avenues’, International Journal of Legal Insight (Volume 2, Issue 1) ISSN 2456-3595.
- ‘All That is Uniform is Not Gold: UCC in Goa and India’s Predicament’, World Journal on Juristic Polity (Volume 3, Issue 3) ISSN 2394-5044.
Senior Associate (Litigation), Anand Anand
- Represented leading businesses from various sectors, including AstraZeneca, Facebook, Ferrero, Marriott, Verizon, and Volvo, in high-stake IPR disputes before the High Court of Delhi, the Supreme Court of India, and in mediation/negotiation proceedings.
- Advisory and compliance work in privacy and data protection (EU GDPR and Indian law). Online trademark and copyright infringement, cyber fraud, and anti-counterfeiting measures.
- High-stake pharmaceutical patent disputes; Represented AstraZeneca in pharmaceutical patent disputes pertaining to diabetes drug, Dapagliflozin, which set the Indian law on genus-species patent validity.
- Worked briefly on Standard Essential Patent (SEP) disputes involving mobile devices (InterDigital).
Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Competition Law
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