Do what really makes you happy Enjoy distractions Be kind to yourself Share your skills for happiness Mounting obligations and hectic schedules can make it all too easy to lose track. But whether it’s the little things in life that make you smile, or the joy of working toward a larger goal, focusing on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Compulsory license makes it compulsory for the owner of a patent to license the use of their rights against payment either set by law or determined by arbitration. A company seeking to use a patent can do so without seeking the patent holder's consent, and pays the patent holder a set fee for the [...]
