Refusal by Patent Office to provide information under RTI; Salman Khurshid, Joy Basu in Shamnad Basheer’s PIL in Delhi HC

Refusal by Patent Office to provide information under RTI; Salman Khurshid, Joy Basu in Shamnad Basheer’s PIL in Delhi HC

Intellectual property law expert and former MHRD Chair Professor of IP at WBNUJS, Shamnad Basheer (Petitioner) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court seeking a declaration that the mechanism for obtaining information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) overrides the mechanisms under other statutes. He has also made a prayer to strike down the Constitutionality of Section 144 of the Patents Act, 1970 (Patents Act).

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