The High Court of Bombay, under the Oral directions of
Hon'ble Justice S.J. Kathawalla has issued a notice on November
06, 20191 , wherein the Parties and Advocates have been
instructed that all the urgent mentioning for ex-parte ad-interim
application in matters pertaining to Intellectual Property (IPR)
will be allowed within the confines of a closed chamber.
It has been further notified that such matters will not be
displayed in the production board of the Court to maintain the
secrecy. The matters approved by the Court for urgent hearing would
be directly called out in the court.
This move by the Bombay High Court is to prevent any leak of
information in IPR cases. It has been reported that in the past
there have been instances wherein the Counsel for the Defendant
appeared for the hearing even when the Court did not issue any
notice to the Defendant apparently on account of leakage of
information by any lawyer present when the matter was being
mentioned in the
