Akebia’s patent for Anemia therapy gets fresh blood from Court
In a recent case the Madras High Court upheld Akebia Therapeutics’ appeal on its anaemia treatment patent, interpreting Section 59 to allow claim amendments from treatment methods to…
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Patent Claim Amendments – Court’s observation of amendments to systems, methods and use claims
The Calcutta High Court remanded a patent application back to the Controller of Patents, citing infrimities in evaluating claim amendments. The Court stressed that mere change in claim…
Can a Pre-Grant Opposition Survive After Patent Grant?
The Delhi High Court confirmed that once a patent grant order is signed, a pre-grant opposition under Section 25(1) is no longer valid. This case involving Vertex Pharmaceuticals…
AbbVie’s Patent Refusal Upheld over Impermissible Shift from Treatment to Product Claims
The Delhi High Court has dismissed AbbVie's appeal regarding the refusal of their patent application for an anti-cMet antibody-drug conjugate. The court found the proposed amendments exceeded permissible…
When Dye Becomes Decisive: Patent Infringement, Equivalence, and Estoppel
In a patent infringement case, the Delhi High Court denied Crystal Crop Protection's request for an interim injunction against Safex Chemicals. The dispute in the case centred on…
Blackberry’s Patent Refusal Set Aside by Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has set aside the Indian Patent Office’s refusal of Blackberry’s communication patent application. Citing a lack of reasoning and violation of natural justice principles,…
Indian IP Office Schedules Stakeholder Meetings in Kolkata and Chennai on Draft CRI Guidelines
The Indian IP Office has scheduled in-person stakeholder meetings in Kolkata and Chennai, after the success of sessions in Mumbai and Delhi. to gather feedback on the Draft…
Indian IP Office Announces Stakeholder Meetings on Draft CRI Guidelines
The Indian IP Office has scheduled in-person stakeholder meetings in Mumbai and Delhi to gather feedback on the Draft Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions (CRI). The initiative will…
What Have You Been Smoking? Personal bias has no place in Tobacco patent evaluation
The Calcutta High Court has criticised the arbitrary rejection of a tobacco syrup patent by the Indian patent office, urging objective analysis over personal bias. It held that…
Failure to consider Post-filing data violates natural Justice, reiterates Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has reiterated that failure to consider post-filing data in patent applications breaches natural justice. In the Takeda case, it found the refusal of a…