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Practice of Patent Asserting Entities: Boon or Bane: Global Innovations
Introduction Patent troll relates to a person or company that enforces its patents against one or more alleged infringers in an opportunistic and unduly aggressive manner, often with no intention to manufacture or market the patented invention. Various terms such as patent trolls, patent monetization companies, or patent assertion entities are used for such entities; … Continue reading Practice of Patent Asserting Entities: Boon or Bane: Global Innovations
Read more »Emcure’s Notice of Motion succeeds against Corona Remedies: Bombay High Court
In the recent decision of Bombay High Court in the case of Emcure Pharmaceuticals v Corona Remedies, the Hon’ble court decided on the issue of deceptive similarity, acquiescence and balance of Convenience in favor of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. Facts of the case: The plaintiff’s trademarks ‘OROFER’ and ‘OROFER XT’ are registered as word marks since 1996 … Continue reading Emcure’s Notice of Motion succeeds against Corona Remedies: Bombay High Court
Read more »Criminalizing online sharing of Academic Article by a Columbian Student
Background Diego Gomez is a student perusing post graduation in Conservation and Wildlife Management in Costa Rica. Like students of developing countries, he also used to face lack of availability of literature in the libraries and other sources of reading. To face this scarcity of academic databases, Diego, used the power of internet. It enabled … Continue reading Criminalizing online sharing of Academic Article by a Columbian Student
Read more »Monkey Selfie-Legal Aspects
Background David J. Slater is a British wild life photographer from Gloucestershire who ventured to an Indonesian jungle in 2011 to take photos of extremely rare crested black macaque monkeys. As he narrated the story to the telegraph, he told “They were quite mischievous, jumping all over my equipment and it looked like they were … Continue reading Monkey Selfie-Legal Aspects
Read more »Bose Vs Beats- The Headphone War
There has been great buzz in patent world with the reported news on 25 Jul 2014 of suits filed by Bose Corps against Beats Electronics in US International Trade Commission (ITC) to block US imports of noise cancelling headphones made by Beats Electronics and a mirror suit in Federal District Court in Delaware, USA over … Continue reading Bose Vs Beats- The Headphone War
Read more »Vacation of injunction upon invalidation of patent by USPTO ePlus. v. Lawson Software
In a recent judgment, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on July 25, 2014, vacated the U.S. District Court’s decision on injunction and contempt orders against Lawson Software and instructed the lower court to dismiss the patent litigation case brought by ePlus, Inc. This decision mainly pertains totwo main issues. Firstly, whether … Continue reading Vacation of injunction upon invalidation of patent by USPTO ePlus. v. Lawson Software
Read more »Revised Draft Guidelines for Examination of Pharma Patent Applications
We have earlier reported the release of Draft Guidelines for Examination of Pharma Patent Applications. The Patent office has now released revised draft guidelines and in continuation of our earlier article here, we explain herein what those revisions are and impact of the guidelines in general. The revised guidelines are available here. The revised guidelines … Continue reading Revised Draft Guidelines for Examination of Pharma Patent Applications
Read more »Two Days International Symposium for R&D Scientists and IP Practitioners
Two Days International Symposium for R&D Scientists and IP Practitioners We are happy to inform you all that IIPRD and Khurana & Khurana, in association with Sughrue Mion, PLLC, (US) is holding an International Patent Symposium covering all major and relevant Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Related Patent issues in the month of September, 2014 in India. The Two-Days … Continue reading Two Days International Symposium for R&D Scientists and IP Practitioners
Read more »Patent Registration Process in India
With a significantly increasing number of Individual Inventors and Small/Medium Sized Clients regularly asking on Patent Registration Process in India, this article is an effort by our Intern, Ananya Singh, to come up with a quick article on Patent Registration Process in India. We hope that a link to the article can give desired clarity … Continue reading Patent Registration Process in India
Read more »Amendment in Trade Mark Fees
Recently, Controller General of Patents Design and Trade Marks, Mr. Chaitanya Prasad,has issued a Public Notice on August 7, 2014, wherein it has been put forth that, from August 1, 2014,Official Fees for filing a new Trade Mark application in one class has been increased from Rs. 3500/- to Rs. 4000/-. It was also mentioned … Continue reading Amendment in Trade Mark Fees
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