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MARCH 21, 2024

Pre-Grant Opposition The first proposal relates to amending the pre-grant opposition mechanism, which allows patent applications to be opposed before the Patent Office officially “grants” the patent. From a policy perspective, pre-grant oppositions are excellent policy.

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JULY 5, 2021

In Rajeev Kumar vs Jamia Millia Islamia (12th April 2021), an extremely interesting tussle was seen with the copyright over a thesis being pitted against a person’s right to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Other Posts Journey Through “Januarys” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) Image from here Sit back, relax, and sift through the pages of January’s posts on SpicyIP! Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC v. Thus, the Court held the adoption to be mala fide and passed an ad interim injunction in the favor of the plaintiff.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) The October “Flashbacks” are here! Lokesh covers another super interesting round of discussions stemming from SpicyIP’s Octobers (2005-present)! on 6 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The plaintiff filed an interim injunction application against the Defendant no.

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JUNE 13, 2022

While there is a growing repository of algorithmic information on the Patent Office website due to the increasing number of patent applications for computer related inventions, the applications may not always disclose key algorithms. This makes data processing opaque.

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