By Excelon IP A patent is a right or licenses conferred to the patentee by the government authority for a period of 20 years to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. Indian patent system defines three criteria for patentable subject matter: Novelty, New Invention, and Industrial applicability. The patent system allows patent[…read more ]
By Chayan Bhattacharya University College of Science and Technology Introduction: A patent is recognizing the originality of the creation of an individual or an institution or an organization. This right allows the processing, using, or selling of their design or invention in a secured way for a specified period. Patent analytics emphasis on elaborate researching[…read more ]
By – Shashi Shekhar Misra LL.B. (final year) at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Trade and commerce require new strategies to survive and flourish in the current internet age. Not only is an online presence essential for a commercial enterprise today but protecting itself from fraudulent and malicious elements online is[…read more ]
By – Shailja Jhala (Patent Analyst at Excelon IP) INTRODUCTION: A patent has a life. Well, it is simply justified by the ups and downs that it faces during its filling, processing, and working. The life of a patent is 20 years as per the Indian Patents Acts for a process and product patent. Steps[…read more ]
Intellectual property rights give a monopoly to the right holder but that is not true in every case. There are certain situations where the monopoly of the right holder will get diluted and the third party can use the invention for one or another purpose defined by law which does not fall in the definition[…read more ]
By Parinay GuptaAmity Law School, Delhi (Affiliated to GGSIPU) Introduction India has benefited greatly from electronic commerce. It has changed the way offices and workplaces function, with an increase in bytes and memory of databases and a decrease in the usage of paper bundles. A database commonly means a collection of data methodically fixed and[…read more ]
Written by: VAIBHAV PIMPALE College: ILS LAW COLLEGE, PUNE INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic which affected humanity and global business has led everyone to lock themselves in their accommodations didn’t limit Hindustan Unilever Ltd (plaintiff) to move in Bombay High Court against Reckitt Benckiser (India) Pvt. Ltd. (defendant) over the case of comparative advertisement where a[…read more ]
Written by: Neelam Dharmadhikari The case revolved around the U.S. Patent No. 7,604,929 (“’929 patent”) filed by In Vitro Inc. The patent also covers the product LiverPoolTM (Pooled multi-cryopreserved hepatocyte). The assignee are manufacturers specialized in vitro products for the study of metabolism, drug-drug interactions, and toxicity in drug discovery and development. The company was[…read more ]
Written by: Himanshu Gaur Indian Copyright laws are mainly ruled by the Copyright Act – 1957. In the year 2012 amendment was made in Indian Copyright laws which made the law compliant with WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty) and WPPT (WIPO Performances and Programmes Treaty), earlier which used to be according to Berne Convention and Universal[…read more ]
Written by: Excelon IP Ever since the inception of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in India’s IP framework, there has been a balance in the interest of patent owner and importance of public interest with the implementation of the scope of patentability and compulsory licenses, respectively. Let’s see how convincing this statement is.[…read more ]