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AI inventions bring together models, training data, and implementation, and as their functioning is probabilistic, not humanly explainable in most cases, and difficult to reproduce, disclosing them clearly…
Open source software has been hugely successful, but the open source model cannot be applied to AI as it is, because an AI system is made up of…
In the case of NOCIL Ltd v. Finorchem Ltd and Anr, the Calcutta High Court considered whether a rival that plans to make the same rubber chemical, and…
In the case of Deakin University v. The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, the Madras High Court asked whether a foreign applicant should lose its…
Can a stamp authority charge duty on a sale that has not yet happened? The Gujarat authorities treated an agreement to sell a garment division, with its land…
Where two arcs meet on a jeans pocket became central to this trademark dispute. Reading the permitted and prohibited designs in a settlement agreement together, the Delhi High…
Philip Morris’s patent concerned a tobacco article meant to be heated electrically, with a wrapper designed to make it harder to ignite with a flame. ITC argued that…
Can a company resist a name-change direction because another company’s complaint set the process in motion? In this dispute between two DNA testing companies, the Delhi High Court…
Cassiopea’s proposed treatment for androgenetic alopecia uses a high concentration of cortexolone-17-α-propionate dissolved in a topical formulation with specified solvents and additives. The Controller rejected its patent application…
What can AI tell us about the value of a patent, and what happens when it produces code without naming its author? This week’s stories follow the EPO’s…