Requirements for inventive step Life Science and Pharma patents
Requirements for inventive step in India along with common patent eligibility issues in Life Science and Pharma patents
India has been on an upward growth trajectory for the last two decades, which has led to its slow but steady transformation into a knowledge driven economy that now has increased focus on quality research and...
Patent Subject Matter Eligibility – A Global Guide – Globe Law & Business
A great compendium of subject matter eligibility requirements across various jurisdictions and a handy reference for developing a prosecution strategy across jurisdictions for inventions in a given technical domain. - Nitin Sharma, Director, Engineering and Patent Counsel, Qualcomm India
Patentees file applications in more and...
Current Trends and Future Needs – Protecting IoT in India with IP
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The Challenging Pursuit of Patent Claim Amendments in India
The provisions in patent laws which provide for claim amendments, play a critical role in maintaining the patent ecosystem. In India, Section 57, read with Section 59(1) of the Act governs amendment of claims.
Amendments to patent applications are a regular feature of patent prosecution worldwide. From requiring the title to...
Untapped potential of CRISPR in India: IP perspective
While patent filings on the gene-editing applications of CRISPR seem to have gained real momentum from 2012 onwards, 2017 saw a peak in worldwide filings.
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), one of the most talked-about technologies of the decade whose developers were awarded the Nobel Prize in...
The India Biological Diversity Act: A review of the Amendment Bill 2021
When the Intellectual Property Appellate Board was suddenly abolished in April, lawyers across India were taken by surprise. Espie Angelica A. de Leon finds out just what lawyers are thinking of its abolition in this eulogy to the IPAB.
It is important for countries like India, with diverse biological resources, to have...
Role of IPR in Forming Legal Strategies for Pharma Industry
Pharmaceutical industry currently has an evolving IPR strategy requiring a better focus and approach in the coming era. This article chalks out the evolving role of IPR in framing legal strategies for pharmaceutical industry.
In the era of globalisation, there is a constant technological race especially in the field of...
An Indian perspective on intermediaries and safe harbours
Rajendra Kumar and Deepak Gogia of K&S Partners examine when internet service providers are liable for infringement of intellectual property and when they are protected by safe harbours
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Delhi’s becoming stricter with injunctions – here’s how to get them
Precise claim mapping charts and detailed infringement annalyses can help convince IPD judges to grant ex-parte injunctions.
If you can approach the court before the defendant’s product launch, that is the best-case scenario. In such an instance, it is easier to prove that the balance of convenience lise in the...
What’s there in a copyright registration? – An Indian Perspective
Acquisition of copyright is automatic and it does not require any formality. Copyright comes into existence as soon as a work is created and no formality is required to be completed for acquiring copyright.
“Ques: Is it necessary to register a work to claim copyright?Ans: No. Acquisition of copyright is automatic and it does...