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From ‘Anti Suit Injunction’ to ‘Anti Anti Suit Injunction’, Where would this Journey End? Part-I

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Title From ‘Anti Suit Injunction’ to ‘Anti Anti Suit Injunction’, Where would this Journey End? Part-I
 
Creator Siwal, Ashwini
Prashant
 
Subject SEPs
Anti-Suit Injunctions
Anti- Anti-Suit Injunctions
Comity
FRANDS
 
Description 42-45
Right to seek justice is the most basic tenet of human life, but what if this right to seek justice is desisted by courts of
justice itself? Yes, this crude statement with other paraphernalia insinuates a concept known as ‘Anti Suit Injunction’, (ASI)
by virtue of which a court restrains a party from prosecuting and/or instituting a suit between same parties, in any other court
of law. But certainly that’s not where things terminate! To cease the conflicting judgments emanating from various
jurisdictions and for amicable resolution of disputes by one court only, a relatively novel concept of ‘Anti-Anti-Suit
Injunction’(A2SI), with a primary intent of reversing the efficacy of ASI by preventing the other party to take shed under
ASI, has took the centre stage. As the functioning of both ASI and A2SI is not in coherence with the basic notions of
international law along with some coordinative rules, so the appropriateness of them as a remedy is vastly questionable.
These remedies have recently surfaced into the domain of ‘Standard Essential Patents’ (SEP), leaving the parties to the
dispute concerning SEP licensing (which are global in effect, as legal actions centering on identical patents or related issues
are often taken in parallel and multiple jurisdictions1) in legal chaos as to which court of law will hear them.
What motivated the authors to usher into this domain is the topical, contemporaneous nature along with increase in its
relevance in its confrontation with the SEPs, the same itself being a highly contemporary and ever evolving domain of
patenting landscape. With the ever advancement of technology, this field is highly debated and is being pondered over in
various sectors including academics! The present paper is a part of the ongoing research, to give a thorough discourse
through a series of articles spanning across the year in upcoming volumes of this journal. The current and first installment of
this yearlong series would try to apprise the readers towards this multidimensional issue of A2SI with its confrontation with
SEPs with the subsequent issue briefing the global scenarios and way forward concerning this issue of A2SI. The latter part
of this yearlong series would then try to provide a fundamental overview of SEPs from the very scratch itself to satiate the
questions so raised by the former issues amongst the mind of readers.
 
Date 2023-04-24T10:52:09Z
2023-04-24T10:52:09Z
2023-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/61784
https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v28i1.545
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source JIPR Vol.28(1) [January 2023]