While social media has created immense opportunities for engagement and expression, it has also raised a myriad of legal challenges, particularly concerning intellectual property (IP) rights including issues around content ownership, digital rights management, deep fakes etc.
Bharadwaj Jaishankar joins Indus
Bharadwaj Jaishankar as a partner in its intellectual property practice.
He was previously counsel at drinks brand
Diageo, responsible for Asia, IP and innovation, and since graduating in 2008 from SLS Pune had also worked at IP and technology firms Saikrishna & Associates and K&S Partners.
He specialises in trademarks, copyrights, designs and geographical indications across the APAC region and also deals in commercial law issues.
According to IndusLaw, while in private practice he had been “actively involved in some precedent-setting judgments”, “including on intermediary liability, trademark law, geographical indications and interplay between copyright and design rights”: