A patent is a statutory privilege granted by the Government to an inventor, and to other persons deriving their rights from the inventor (Eg: Assignee) for a fixed period of years, to exclude other persons from manufacturing, using or selling a patented product, or from utilizing a patented method or process. At the expiration [...]
Patents on pharmaceuticals are a contentious issue for many countries around the world, for the obvious reason that the average person in most countries can’t afford to pay for brand-name drugs. The patent battle over Glivec is, needless to say, bitter and complicated. The argument for providing a patent to glivec (imatinib mesylate), a [...]
Today I present to you a case of copyright infringement that deals with fair dealing aspect of Copyright Act, 1957. This is the case between ICC owned subsidiary(Plaintiff No. 1) and a sports broadcasting and content provider which delivers various international and regional sports contents to viewers via its sports channels(Plaintiff No. 2) with [...]
Geographical Indication 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 the certification mark and also shows that the specified product consists [...]
As the public awaits for the new film by Ranbir Kapoor, titled “Barfi”, the movies goes into a legal trouble. The British firm Murphy enterprise which owns Murphy radios have sent a legal notice to UTV Motion Pictures for the use of Murphy's name in the title track “Ala barfi” without the consent of [...]
A single judge bench of Delhi high court dismissed the claim of Indian wing of Roche company. Roche had accused Cipla of infringing there patent for the drug “Tarceva”, and backfiring, Cipla had asked for the revocation on the grounds that the current drug is in not in accordance with Section-3d and there is [...]
