Latika Choudhary

Dr. Latika Choudhary is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law with a specialized focus on intellectual property laws. Her research lies at the intersection of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and jurisprudence, with particular emphasis on patentability in life sciences, including genetic and stem cell innovations, as well as emerging questions surrounding AI inventorship and authorship. She also engages with the evolving framework of personality rights in AI-driven contexts and examines the philosophical foundations underlying intellectual property law. Her work critically interrogates the ethical, legal, and normative challenges arising from rapid technological advancements. She holds a Ph.D. from National Law University, Jodhpur, where her research focused on patenting genetic material and stem cells, along with an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Rights from the same institution and a B.A.(Hons.) LL.B.(Hons.) from National Law University Odisha.  She has also gained significant international academic exposure. She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen (June 2025) and is an incoming visiting researcher at the University of Oxford and Lund University (Summer 2027). In addition, she participated in the WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property, reflecting her engagement with global intellectual property discourse and policy development.

• Ph.D.- National Law University, Jodhpur (August 2017-April 2023)
• LL.M.(I.P.R)- National Law University, Jodhpur (July 2016-May 2017)
• B.A.(Hons.)LL.B(Hons.)- National Law University, Odisha (July 2011 – May 2016)

Publications

• Choudhary, L., Kaushik, H. and Daga, H. (2025) “Why AI cannot be an inventor: a post-humanist rejection of AI as legal inventor,” Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 20(11), pp. 732–743. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpaf063.

• Choudhary, L. and Daga, H. (2025) “Aligning the Competition Commission of India and Sectoral Regulators,” Australian Journal of Asian Law, 26(2), pp. 123–137.

• Choudhary, L., Sharma, U.R. and Daga, H. (2025) “‘Ruff’ Justice: Analysing the Right to Feed Stray Dogs in Lieu of Constitutional Provisions and Judicial Precedents in India,” Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 28(1), pp. 92–102. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13880292.2025.2500867.

• Choudhary, L., Daga, H. and Srivastava, C. “Catalyzing circularity: Tackling intellectual property barriers to technology transfer and circular solutions in developing economies,” The Journal of World Intellectual Property. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jwip.70006

• Choudhary, L. and Daga, H. (2025) “What does religion have to do with it: Exploring noninstitutional arguments for effective enforcement of IPR,” The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 28(1), pp. 220–239. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jwip.12329

• Daga, H. and Choudhary, L. (2025) “Fossil Fuel Governance and the International Investment Treaties,” Economic and Political Weekly, 60(40). Available at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/40/insight/fossil-fuel-governance-and international.html.

• Choudhary, L. and Daga, H. (2024) “No country for self-love: Tracing the confluence of sex toys, right to sexual health and obscenity standards in the modern Indian landscape,” Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality and Culture, 10(01), pp. 51–58.

• Choudhary, L. and Daga, H. (2024) “Analysing the Animal Euthanasia Scenario in India in Light of the Constitutional Provisions,” Christ University Law Journal, 13(1), pp. 87–117. Available at: https://doi.org/10.12728/culj.24.4.

• Choudhary, L. and Kumar, A. (2022) “Stem Cell Patenting: Moral and Legal Dilemma,” Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR), 27(1), pp. 42–51. Available at: https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v27i1.53897.

• Daga, H. and Choudhary, L. (2024) “Circular Economy: (Not So) Merry Go Round for Innovation and World Intellectual Property Regime,” Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR), 29(4), pp. 325–336. Available at: https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v29i4.5686.

• Daga, H., Srivastava, C. and Choudhary, L. “The economics of tacit knowledge in patent based technology transfer agreements,” The Journal of World Intellectual Property. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jwip.70007.

• Assistant. Professor of Law, IMS Law College, Noida, September 2018-March 2019
• Assistant Professor of Law, UPES, June 2019-February 2026

Her research interests lie at the intersection of IPR and emerging technological developments, particularly artificial intelligence. She is interested in exploring how AI disrupts and reshapes traditional IPR frameworks, especially in relation to authorship, inventorship, and ownership. Her work engages with the evolving jurisprudence surrounding AI-generated outputs, critically examining whether existing legal doctrines can adequately address non-human creativity or require conceptual reform. She is also drawn to the philosophical foundations of IPR in the context of AI. This includes interrogating core concepts such as creativity, originality, and human agency, and assessing how they are being redefined by increasingly autonomous technologies. She aims to engage with broader theoretical perspectives, including post-humanist approaches, to evaluate whether the anthropocentric basis of IPR remains sustainable. Additionally, her research focuses on personality rights in digital environments. Further, Latika examines how AI-driven technologies such as deepfakes, virtual identities, and behavioral profiling complicate issues of identity, autonomy, and commercial exploitation of personal attributes.