Delhi HC Clarifies the Threshold of Section 3(d): Enhanced Efficacy & Procedural Fairness in Patent
Dr Jyoti Choithani Ramani analyses Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. v. Controller of Patents & Anr., where the Delhi High Court set aside the rejection of Taiho’s patent. The Court clarified that for a valid Section 3(d) objection, the Patent Office must identify the ‘known substance with known efficacy’, explain how the claimed compound is a...
IPO ends decade-long pre-grant opposition to Gilead’s Sofosbuvir prodrug
In a landmark case, Gilead Pharmasset, LLC v Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust and Ors., the Indian Patent Office (IPO) in Kolkata granted a patent to Gilead Pharmasset, LLC (Gilead), covering the prodrug molecule of anti-HCV drug Sofosbuvir. The IPO rejected all the 13 pre-grant oppositions, filed by various opponents including pharma companies,...
Court assesses lung cancer drug patent infringement by the company.
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The Creation of the Intellectual Property Division: A Milestone in India’s IP Adjudication Framework
The abolishment of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) through the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 brought about a period of uncertainty in
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Delhi High Court to address conflicting views on Divisional applications
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Microwave-assisted spectrophotometric estimation
Oligonucleotide microarray has emerged as a powerful tool to efficiently address various problems in molecular biology and medical sciences . The technique allows simultaneous detection of many different targets in a sample based on base-pairing rules.
The technique allows simultaneous detection of many different targets...
Court rules against generics companies in infringement suit concerning diabetes
The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently issued ad-interim
injunctions to a patentee, Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), against five Indian
generic companies (the defendants).
BI filed separate infringement suits against the companies and sought interim injunctions to restrain them from violating its patent rights during the...