India’s Prathiba M Singh, Decide on the Delhi Excessive Courtroom, has been appointed Chair of the WIPO (World Mental Property Group) Advisory Board of Judges (2025-2027).
It is a first for India, and in reality the Asian area, stated an individual conversant in the developments, and it’ll put India on the map from an mental property (IP) standpoint, reflecting the “collective work” over a few years.
A United Nations company, WIPO’s 10-member advisory board, together with the Chair, represents as many international locations. One of many divisions underneath WIPO is its Judicial Institute that acts as a impartial platform for exchanging concepts for judges from a number of international locations.
The board “supplies steering and route to WIPO’s work with judiciaries, making certain that this work meaningfully serves the wants of judges throughout numerous judicial programs and traditions,” a WIPO be aware stated.
The board additionally guides the Institute, that amongst different issues, brings out publications just like the WIPO patents information, for instance – authored by judges, the supply stated. A number of international locations that would not have a precedent relating to patents, look to WIPO for a route on IP, the supply informed businessline.
India has seen a bunch of high-profile instances fought throughout the framework of the Patents Act, and over time the variety of hard-fought IP and patent instances have elevated, the supply identified. The Institute additionally holds a worldwide IP discussion board in Geneva yearly – attended by 100s of judges from internationally, in individual and on-line, stated the supply.
Board members
The newly-appointed Chair, Prathiba M Singh was elevated as Everlasting Decide of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in 2017. She was Chairperson for the primary IP Division of the Delhi HC (2021-22 Session), and was additionally its Presiding Decide, the WIPO be aware stated. She is at current the co-chair of the Working Group on Regulatory Consideration on AI in Well being fashioned by the World Well being Group, it added.
The Judicial Institute was arrange in Australia (2018), and its first Chair was Annabelle Bennett, former Australian federal choose and well-known arbitrator. Apparently, she was the only arbitrator on the case involving wrestler Vignesh Phogat through the Paris Olympics.
Different advisory board members embody:Luis Antonio Camargo Vergara, Decide, Third Tribunal Specialised in Competitors and IP, First Judicial District, Panama; DU Weike, Deputy Chief Decide, Mental Property Courtroom, Supreme Folks’s Courtroom, China; Zhanar Duisenova, Decide, Specialised Interdistrict Administrative Courtroom of Astana, Kazakhstan; Mohammad Elzend, Appellate Decide, Tanta Excessive Courtroom of Appeals; Senior Advisor, Worldwide and Cultural Cooperation Division, Ministry of Justice, Egypt; Jean-Christophe Gayet, Presiding Decide, Third Part, Third Chamber, First Occasion Courtroom of Paris, France; Michael Manson, Justice, Federal Courtroom of Canada; Mustapher Mohamed Siyani, Principal Decide, Excessive Courtroom of Tanzania; Savvas Papasavvas, Vice-President, Normal Courtroom of the European Union, Luxembourg; Woo Sungyop, Presiding Decide, Fourth Division, Mental Property Excessive Courtroom of Korea.
Justice Singh joined the Bar in 1991, showing earlier than the Supreme Courtroom of India, Excessive Courtroom of Delhi, IP Appellate Board, and Indian Patent Workplace. “Her advisory work included streamlining the Copyright Workplace and patent examinations, and advising Parliamentary Committees on legislative amendments associated to mental property,” the WIPO be aware added.
Printed on October 21, 2025