Claims are most important part of the patent as they define legal scope of the patent. Hence they should be carefully drafted. During coming month I will be writing about various tips for patent claim drafting. For quick glance, in this blog am a just giving 8 quick tips to write claims – TIP [...]
Cipla is again in news. This time it is for the revocation of a cancer patent owned by a multinational company. The patent is an Indian Patent IN209251 and it was granted to Pfizer/ Sugen for their cancer drug Sunitinib. The Patent for Sunitinib was granted to Pfizer/ Sugen on 23-08-2007 with an allotment [...]
“Women Scientists Scholarship Scheme (WOS-C)”is a Government of India scheme for the women scientists. It is operated by the Department of Science & Technology (DST). This scheme aims to train women having qualifications in science/ engineering / medicine or allied areas in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR) and management of IPR for [...]
A long dispute of four years came to an end when the High Court of Birmingham (UK) gave a ruling in favor of Cadbury. The dispute was over the color trademark of Cadbury viz. Purple (Pantone 2685C). In the present dispute Nestle SA, challenged a trademark ruling stating that a color cannot be protected [...]
Patents, an exclusive right granted to the inventor by the government of the country for exploitation of his invention by use, sell or licensing the patent. With patents, inventor tries to cover up and gain from the research inventor has already carried out. Patents are used by an inventor to protect his invention; invention [...]
India is going to add two new products into Geographical Indications (GI). GI is used to denote the name or sign, of the products which are from a particular geographical area or somewhat related to the origin like town, region or nation. Thus Geographical Indication gives the rights to its holder, and acts as [...]
