{"id":40979,"date":"2017-11-08T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T06:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=40979"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:20:30","slug":"post-grant-opposition-patents-india-upes-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/post-grant-opposition-patents-india-upes-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Grant Opposition of Patents in India &#8211; Lecture by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala at UPES School of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala recently delivered a lecture to the B.Tech &#8211; LLB students of UPES School of Law as part of the\u00a0&#8216;Patent Law and Practice Program&#8217; being taught by BananaIP Team at the School.<br \/>\nThe flow chart below represents the process of post-grant opposition in India.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow.jpg\" alt=\"This image depicts the process of post grant opposition in India\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow-1024x906.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow-1536x1359.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/post-grant-flow-1200x1061.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\nSection 25(2) of the Indian patent (Amendment) Act 2005 provides a provision for filing a post grant\u00a0opposition against a patent.Under this provision any <strong>interested\u00a0person,\u00a0<\/strong>may file an opposition against a granted application within one year from the date of publication of grant of the patent.<br \/>\n<strong>Post-grant opposition\u00a0can be\u00a0made on any of the grounds listed under section 25(2) (a) to (k) of the Patent Amendment Act, 2005:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrongfully obtaining the invention<\/li>\n<li>anticipation by\u00a0prior\u00a0publication<\/li>\n<li>anticipation by\u00a0prior\u00a0date, Prior claiming in India<\/li>\n<li>Prior public knowledge or public use in India<\/li>\n<li>Obviousness and lack of inventive step<\/li>\n<li>non patentable\u00a0subject matter<\/li>\n<li>insufficiency of description of the invention<\/li>\n<li>non-disclosure of information as per the\u00a0requirement\u00a0or providing materially false information by an applicant<\/li>\n<li>Patent application not filed within 12 months of filing the first application in a convention country<\/li>\n<li>nondisclosure\/ wrong mention of source of biological material<\/li>\n<li>Invention anticipated with regard to traditional knowledge of any community, anywhere in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Kalyan C. Kankanala manages the largest new age Intellectual Property Firm, BananaIP Counsels, headquartered at Bangalore, India. In addition to helping clients maximize business value from intellectual assets, Dr. Kalyan also consults for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and teaches at premier institutions such as National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B).<br \/>\nFeatured image source\/attribution &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/yes-consent-hook-check-mark-board-238381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>; Governing License &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Domain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala discusses post grant opposition of patents in India, focusing on the legal grounds and procedure under Section 25(2) of the Patent Act. The lecture was delivered as part of the Patent Law and Practice Program at UPES School of Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":31,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[183,443,163,8812,7839,1452,8828,2845],"class_list":["post-40979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents","tag-bananaip-counsels","tag-dr-kalyan-c-kankanala","tag-indian-patent-law","tag-patent-law-education","tag-patent-procedure-india","tag-post-grant-opposition","tag-section-25-2","tag-upes-school-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979\/revisions\/136365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}