Startups: Avoiding Regulatory Pitfalls

This report seeks to identify trends in funds raised by and the market capitalization of the most successful blockchain projects in various sectors, such as smart contracts, finance, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and specialized blockchain.Read more

Introduction ‘Fake news’ is news, stories or hoaxes created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers. Usually, these stories are created to either influence people’s views, push a political agenda or cause confusion and can often be aRead more

Ikigai Law seeks a lawyer to join its public policy practice. This is a full-time position, based in New Delhi, India. The ideal candidate will be familiar with, and interested in working on technology law/policy,Read more

  Introduction Hemp, the lesser known cousin of marijuana, has been in the news for all the right reasons lately. The industrial and medicinal uses of the plant have been in the spotlight ever sinceRead more

I. Introduction The Supreme Court’s ban on the sale of alcohol within 500 meters of state and national highways in 2016 caused a significant crunch in the physical retail space available to alcohol vendors inRead more

Summary: In order to resolve the confusion created due to the various policies launched by the Indian government in the e-mobility sector, this post provides a timeline of the different steps taken by the governmentRead more

Monitoring App Based Cab Aggregators Towards A Brighter Future? Even though app-based cab aggregators (“ABCAs”) entered the Indian market much later than traditional radio taxis, they have already started to eclipse the latter in termsRead more

Context: In response to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (“MeITY”) call for comments on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“Bill”), Ikigai Law and Inc42 submitted a consolidated set of comments reflecting theRead more