Patent Infringement, because the scientific expert says so? Court says no!
In Five Fingers Exports India Pvt Ltd v. Lohia Corp Ltd, the Allahabad High Court asked whether a Commercial Court may grant a patent infringement injunction on a…
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Wrong Form, Short Fee: Can a patent opposition still survive?
The Delhi High Court opined that filing a post-grant patent opposition in the wrong form with a deficient fee could be corrected under Rule 137 of the Patents…
AI Inventions and Patents: When Is the Disclosure Sufficient?
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…
Dispatched Is Not Delivered: Deemed Abandonment of Patent Application Set Aside
In Tetra Technologies, Inc. v. Union of India, the Delhi High Court examined whether deemed abandonment of a patent application can rest on a system-generated email the applicant…
Stitching Prior Art Together? Madras High Court on Patent Inventive Step and Mosaicing
In The North Face Apparel Corp v. Controller of Patents and Designs, the Madras High Court examined whether a garment tracking invention lacked patent inventive step because four…
Two Doors to Revocation: Madras High Court on Patent Revocation Petition vs Counterclaim
Can a defendant attack a patent through a separate patent revocation petition once the patentee's infringement suit is pending? In Arunachalaa Enterprises v. R. Sukumar, the Madras High…
Eleven Weeks to Expiry: Delhi High Court Acts on Ruxolitinib Patent Infringement
In Incyte Holdings Corporation v. Melody Healthcare, the Delhi High Court examined ruxolitinib patent infringement where the defendant had not launched a product but listed the API for…
Cancer, Costs and Compulsion: Kerala High Court Opens the Section 100 Patents Act Door
In In Re Exorbitant Pricing of Life Saving Patented Medicines, the Kerala High Court asked whether the Section 100 Patents Act lets the Union of India make and…
A Recipe for Trouble: Patents and Trade Secrets at Calcutta HC
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…
Same Pot, Same Recipe? Process Patent Infringement Catches Finorchem in NOCIL’s 4-ADPA Dispute
In NOCIL Ltd v Finorchem Ltd, the Calcutta High Court asked whether a rival planning to make the same rubber chemical, with the patentee’s former senior employee on…