How Regulatory Exclusivity Can Impact Your Generic Business?

Abstract Regulatory exclusivity is one strategy apart from intellectual property rights to get profit and return on investment done by the pharmaceutical industry on the development of drugs. The reason for introducing regulatory exclusivity for drug products was that a lot of time would be lost during the approval of drug products and because of[…read more ]

Compulsory License: One of the Powerful Weapons to Combat Unavailability of Patented Articles-Indian Perspective

The provision of Compulsory License (CL) has been having its place secured throughout the amendments in the Indian Patent Act happening since the time before Independence. But the grounds for obtaining CL were found inadequate to prevent the abuse of a patent; the holder has put his money and time for. The Indian patent Act,[…read more ]

Advancement and Awareness of IP Laws in India

With the ever-growing need for invention & creation which ultimately accelerates the growth of a country’s economy, there arises a necessity to protect our intangible assets from being exploited. Although Intellectual Property laws had come into force years ago but very few people knew the value of Intellectual property protection and its significance for their[…read more ]

Patent of Addition: A useful approach for modification/improvement to patent

Those who are aware of Indian Patent Provision might have knowledge that an application for a new form of a known substance, mere admixture, their re-arrangement or slight modification to the existing technology does not qualify to be called a PATENT. Be it a legislation of any country, the invention will be entitled as patent[…read more ]

Grant of a Pharmaceutical Combination Patent in India: Benefits of ‘bending the Rules’ of Section 3(e) and 3(i)

We feel privileged to fetch these brief insights of recently granted patent application 10502/CHENP/2012 as IN317714 on 6th August, 2019. Eisai R&D Management Co. Ltd. had filed PCT/JP2011/064430 claiming priority from two Japanese patent applications viz JP2010-145030 having priority date of June 25th, 2010 (to be considered as it is the earliest priority date) and[…read more ]

Pharmaceutical Inventions and Intellectual Property Rights in the time of Global Pandemic like COVID-19

The world is turned upside down in the wake of COVID-19 with millions of people infected globally and nearly hundred thousand in India. Be it the government or healthcare professionals, everyone is tackling the pandemic in the best possible way. Since there hasn’t been any cure found to diminish the effect of Corona, pharmaceutical companies[…read more ]

Different types of patents you need to know

Gujarat is growing at an unprecedented pace, and Ahmedabad is becoming the protagonist of this growth saga. With the introduction of new businesses, there has been a hike in patent service providers. However, still, there’s a gap in educating people about patent services and its forms. While we have shared from time to time about[…read more ]