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The Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2014 has come in force with effective from 28th February 2014. The major changes are the hike in official...

This article relates to a judgment of Intellectual Property Appellate Board (hereinafter IPAB) dated 20 th January 2014 in the case “ ”...

This article relates to a recent judgment of IPAB in the case “NTT DoCoMo Inc. Vs The Controller of Patents and Designs” for a patent...

Sanyukta Biswas, an intern at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, looks at the rights of singer, lyricist and composer that...

After anti–influenza drug Tamiflu (Oseltamivir Phosphate) and antiretroviral drug Viread, Gilead Sciences is again back in news, this...

India issued its first CL last year for a Bayer’s kidney liver cancer drug Nexavar to an Indian generic manufacturer Natco on all three...

The Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2013 came in force with effective from 15th October 2013. It appears that the primary aim of the amendment...

The Indian Patent Office is recognised as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority...

It was on 8’th August 2013 that the Patent Office, based on feedback from numerous stakeholders, came out with yet another draft of...

GSK’s granted patent IN221171 (‘171) on lapatinib ditosylate (marketed as Tykerb), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor for treating breast...

As per the notification of 07th July 2013 at the Indian Patent Office, the responses to Examination Reports can now be also filed online....

Patent wars in India between the foreign innovator companies and the Indian generics now seem to be spreading over life-management...

As it has been widely covered by media in and outside India, it is no new news to pharmaceutical and patent fraternity that Novartis has...

This Article would not discuss as to what is a patent of addition, when does it expire etc., answers to which are clearly mentioned in...

Indian Patents Act provides an applicant to deposit a biological material in support of the Indian patent application. It is an exigent...

An intellectual property right holder is granted legal rights to protect his intellectual property- here is where competition law plays a...

The Customs Act, 1962 prohibits import of those goods that infringed intellectual property. Under Section 11, the Central Government can...

Pankaj Mohanta, an intern at Khurana and Khurana talks about patent evergreening in the pharmaceutical domain. Through this post, he...

Pankaj Mohanta, an intern at Khurana and Khurana Advocates and IP Attorneys gives us an overview and analysis of divisional application. ...

IIPRD (Institute of Intellectual Property Research and Development) offers a Six Months Certificate Course on “Patent Portfolio Creation...