Mohammad Ataul Karim

Many legal opinions are spelled out about the ‘Tangail Saree’ geographical indication (GI). Unfortunately, some of them are emotion-driven or misconceived!

World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has released Global Innovation Index (GII) on September 2, 2020 in which Bangladesh ranks 116th on overall innovation indicators among 131 economies.

The role of intellectual property (IP) in combating Covid-19, either in facilitative or restrictive way, is a recurrent issue resurfacing nowadays.

The legal framework, particularly premised on the intellectual property standards for the protec-tion of new plant varieties triggers formidable challenges for farmers’ rights, traditional farming, farmers’ traditional knowledge.

Data is the primary building block of the digital economy. Data is, therefore, logically termed as ‘new oil’ and ‘infrastructure’ of digital economy.

On June 25, 2019, an editorial of The New York Times was published based on the Georgia v Public.Resource.Org (a case about whether the State of Georgia can assert copyright in its annotated state code).

Artificial intelligence (AI) generated contents have been posing formidable challenges to the existing Intellectual Property (IP) regime.

Intellectual property (IP) system often faces ethical conundrums when it comes to serve the poor segment or to secure larger societal goals instead of protecting corporate interests. Likewise, book famine for visually impaired persons or persons otherwise with print