Supreme Court’s Decision On Patent Rights Of Novartis AG's Cancer Treatment...
The patent law of India is incorporate as the Indian Patents Act, 1970. As on date, we do not provide any utility models protection in India. A utility model protection provides a protection akin to...
View ArticleProposed US Legislation Would Target Companies Using Stolen Intellectual...
United States lawmakers are formulating a legislation that would create new punishments for companies from China and elsewhere that use trade secrets stolen by crackers and cyber criminals. The bill...
View ArticleNovartis Lost The Patent Claims Of Novartis AG's Cancer Treatment Drug Glivec...
The much awaited Supreme Court’s decision on patent rights of Novartis AG's cancer treatment drug Glivec in India has been pronounced. As expected, Novartis lost the patent battle in the Supreme Court...
View ArticleTata Sons And Tata Infotech Won Domain Name Lawsuit Against Arno Palmen
Deceptive similarity and confusion may create doubts in the minds of consumers and end users. That is why the trademark laws around the world discourage the practices of deceptive similarity. The...
View ArticleIndia Submitted Instrument Of Accession To The Madrid Protocol For...
The trademark registration procedure in India is governed by the Indian Trademark Act, 1999. The convention application under Indian trademark law is governed by section 154(2) of the Trademarks Act...
View ArticleUS Pharmaceutical Company Merck Sharp And Dohme’s (MSD) Appealed Before...
The relationship between the Indian Patent Act, 1970 and the pharmaceutical products claiming patent protection in India was rewritten when the Supreme Court of India considered this issue recently....
View ArticleBar-Coding Of Primary Level Packaging Of Export Consignment Of...
The Director General of Foreign Trade of India has the powers under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, as amended from time to time, to make necessary amendments in public notices....
View ArticleIndian Constitution, International Treaties And The Mandates Of WTO
By Geeta Dalal When a nation accepts any international treaty or convention, it partly accepts to surrender a part of its autonomy. However, on no case it must be presumed that the nation has...
View ArticleInternational Law, Indian Sovereignty And Constitutional Protections In India
What is the true nature and character of international law vis-à-vis Indian sovereignty and constitutional protections? This is a tricky issue and has not been discussed by our Indian judiciary....
View ArticleIndian Lawyers Can Be Patent Agents Under Indian Patents Act 1970 Without...
In a landmark judgement, the Madras High Court has restored status quo regarding the patent agent qualification under the Indian Patent Act, 1970 as was in existence before the Patents (Amendment) Act...
View ArticleMs. Anvita Singh v Union of India, WP (C) No.4376/2011
The conduct of patent agent examination and corresponding registration of patent agents under the Indian Patent Act, 1970 is a controversial issue. After the amendments in the Indian Patent Act in...
View ArticleAbridged Judgement Of SP.Chockalingam v Controller of Patents & Anr...
Recently the Madras High Court held that Indian lawyers can be patent agents under Indian Patents Act 1970 without passing the patent agent exam. Previously a Division bench of Delhi High Court in Ms....
View ArticleLegal Analysis Of SP.Chockalingam v Controller of Patents & Anr And Its Legal...
The Madras High Court judgment in SP.Chockalingam V Controller of Patents has created many ripples in the otherwise calm waters of patent agents’ arena. As per the judgment, Indian lawyers can be...
View ArticlePublic Relations Consultants Association Limited v The Newspaper Licensing...
A question that has been answered in negative by courts around the world has refused to die. The question is whether an Internet user, by mere viewing of a copyright protected work, commits the...
View ArticleJapanese Company Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) Accused Chinese Company CSR...
Intellectual property rights protection and their continued enjoyment to the exclusion of others is one of the strongest motivations to innovate and spend considerable amount on research and...
View ArticleUS International Trade Commission Held That Apple Did Not Violate Google’s...
Apple has been defending itself against a patent infringement suit file by Google. The bone of contention was Google’s patent to make the popular iPhones. The matter was pending before the US...
View ArticleMozilla Issued Cease And Desist Notice To Gamma International For Maliciously...
E-surveillance can result in trademark infringement and brand violation. This sounds strange but recently this sort if case come to our knowledge. A report provided by Citizen Lab has disclosed this...
View ArticleDish TV Set Top Boxes Used Illegally In UAE
Digital contents have become a valuable commodity these days. The entertainment industry of India has also understood this fact very clearly. As a result it is trying hard to get maximum share in...
View ArticleNational IPR Policy Of India And Technology Issues
Indian government is in the process of formulating the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Policy of India and preliminary formalities have already been completed in this regard. A group of...
View ArticleWTO Settles Trade Dispute Between India And US Regarding Certain Steel Products
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has recently settled a trade dispute between India and United States that partially covered the interests of both countries. The dispute at WTO pertained to...
View ArticleProposed US Rulemaking For Section 1201 Exemptions
United States (U.S.) is currently involved in a rulemaking exercise that would grant exemptions from prohibition against circumvention of technological measures protecting copyrighted works. If this...
View ArticleProposed Trade Mark Rules 2015 What Business Houses And E-Commerce Websites...
Readers of our blogs must be aware that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, has issued the Draft Trade Marks Rules, 2015 (PDF) for public comments on...
View ArticleCabinet Approves The Draft National IPR Policy Of India
Indian government has been preparing the draft national IPR policy of India for some time. Perry4Law Organisation (P4LO) has suggested that the proposed IPR policy of India must be techno legal in...
View ArticlePokerNation And Fortuity Gaming Solutions Pvt Ltd Served Legal Notice For...
Copyright violation is a serious offence in India especially when it is combined with the offences punishable under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act 2000). The IT Act 2000 has prescribed...
View ArticlePlayGambo And OVH Served Legal Notice For Copyright Infringement Of Perry4Law
Online gaming and online gambling laws in India are still evolving. Even courts in India are not very keen to bring certainty to these controversial fields. Recently, the Supreme Court of India...
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