Aparajita Lath

Education

• BA LLB (Hons), National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
• LL.M, Harvard Law School

Profile

Aparajita has been working in the field of intellectual property rights and corporate-commercial matters for over six years. Before joining NLSIU in 2023, she worked at two leading Indian law firms – as an Associate at AZB & Partners and as a Senior Associate at Trilegal where she worked on head-line making mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property rights litigation, cutting edge technology transactions, product launches. She was also regularly involved in drafting and submitting comments to the government on bills, policies and rules in the technology and IP space. She has extensive experience in representing a wide variety of clients across industries.

At Harvard, she focused on intellectual property rights and health law and policy. She was a Student Fellow at Harvard’s Petrie-Flom Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and a Dean’s Scholar.

Apart from her work experience, Aparajita has written extensively on matters of intellectual property rights, technology and public health. She has published in academic journals and regularly contributes to newspapers and blogs.

Research Interests

Intellectual Property Rights
Health Law and Policy
Technology Law and Policy

Publications

• Mateo Aboy, Aparajita Lath, Timo Minssen, Kathleen Liddell, The Sufficiency of Disclosure of AI Inventions, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (August 2024)
• Aparajita Lath, Permanent Downloads and the Resale of Digital Content: Another Exhausting Journey? 16 Indian Journal of Law and Technology (2020), p. 1-17.
• Aparajita Lath et. al., Technology Governance in a Time of Crisis, Human Technology Foundation (May 2020).
• Aparajita Lath et. al., India’s New Data Protection Bill: Based on GDPR, But Different, 1 Computer Law Review International (2020).
• Aparajita Lath, Analysing the Pitfalls of Indian Patent Injunctions based on Fear of Infringement, 19 Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (2014), p. 253-259.
• Aparajita Lath and Shivam Bhardwaj, Business Method Patents: An Oxymoron, 6(1) NUJS Law Review (2014), p. 121-145.
• Other articles in newspapers and online news platforms.
• 70+ posts on SpicyIP.com since 2013.
• 10+ posts on Harvard’s Bill of Health, 2022-2023.