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With the revolution in business and trade using internet, the graph of development has shown an immense growth, also inevitably attracting cyber-crimes and giving rise to unhealthy competition. The rivals try to misuse the domain names of reputed businessman and encash their goodwill for their profit-making. Challenge at this stage is to overcome such exploitation in the field of intellectual property.

The ‘Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’ issued a draft bill on Personal Data Protection (PDP) in 2018 under the guidance of the B.N. Srikrishna Committee.

The European Commission in its recent report recognized the principal director of a film or an audiovisual work as an author of that work and thereby the owner of the intellectual property rights, which seems to be inappropriate and biased on one side.

For any invention or literary work to be brought to work, an idea, which is defined as a “thought or suggestion to a possible course of action”, is the first pre-requisite.

Under Article 142 of the Indian Constitution, a bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and L. Nageswara Rao, exercised its plenary power to direct all the High Courts to frame a mechanism for hearing through video conferencing.

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (hereinafter UNCITRAL) Working Group defines online dispute resolution (hereinafter ODR) as “…a mechanism for resolving disputes facilitated through the use of electronic communications and other information and communication technology”.

Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. As it takes over the world, the legal fraternity too seems to fall under it.

A digital court is a platform where the trial of cases will be done electronically. It would include all types of cases under fresh registration or pending list.