SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Recently, the Indian Patent Office rejected a patent application by UPL Ltd. for lack of sufficient disclosure mandated under Section 10(4) of the Patents Act. At the heart of this bargain lies Section 10(4) of the Patents Act of 1970 which delineates the parameters of a complete specification.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

The monograph does not cite a single document or study that shows that pre-grant oppositions have benefits or the actual benefits that Indians have had because of timely filing of oppositions against ‘evergreening type’ pharmaceutical patent applications. of the total published applications. ’. of patent applications)?

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s blockchain patent application, which included a system used to improve the efficiency of certificate issuance and save users from repetitively filing the same document on multiple platforms, was one of the first known blockchain patent applications.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain. Further, while patent and copyright have strict brackets on what it pertains to, many forms of traditional knowledge may not strictly conform to it.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SpicyIP Tidbits: Clarification on Jurisdiction of High Courts after the Tribunals Reform Act 2021, and Need for Reasoned Orders for Rejecting Patent Applications. Then we discussed the Bombay High Court’s decision to rebuke the Patent Office for dismissing a patent application without providing sufficient reasons for the same.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Hence, the software has to be a new invention to be patentable. The question of whether particular software is patentable or not as held in the case of Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v. However, the above-mentioned judgments broaden the scope of such application. Hence, the case of Accenture Global service GMBH v.

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