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On February 7, 2024, the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice presented its 144th Report outlining...

Industrial design protection is one of the core pillars of intellectual property law, enabling creators and businesses to secure exclusive rights over the visual features that define and distinguish their products.

In the realm of patents, the primary rule is that a single patent application should typically cover only one invention or a closely related group of inventions leading to a single inventive concept.

The legal concepts of obviousness versus unexpected results, particularly in chemistry and pharmaceuticals, are shaping the patenting strategies of certain chemical and pharmaceutical innovation trends.

With the nearing of the TRIPS deadline, the pharmaceutical industry in India is gearing up to face new challenges. The product patent regime is no longer the challenge - it is a reality that the Indian pharma industry has accepted.

A right to claim priority from an as-filed application is not just restricted to an applicant of the Priority application, but may be also availed by ‘another/different' applicant for the purposes of filing a later application claiming priority from the priority application.

In a recent case, the Delhi High Court set aside an ad-interim injunction order that was passed in favour of the Plaintiff - Jindal Industries Private Limited and held the Defendant - Jindal Sanitaryware Private Limited, to be the prior user of the mark ‘JINDAL'.

One of the critical areas of intellectual property law is how to protect a brand when it is not registered. Unregistered trademarks play an important role in India's trademark protection system.

Using a combination of known elements to create a new invention is an age-old practice to stay ahead in competition.

Since the past few years, publicity rights have attracted considerable amount of recognition in the field of intellectual property laws.

The principle of alternate dispute resolution is enshrined in Section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.

In the year 2021 several big Indian companies such as Paytm, Zomato, Policybazaar have raised funds through initial public offerings in the Indian stock markets.

The Life cycle of a trademark is a complex one involving the creation, registration, protection and exploitation of the mark. And when the mark is used as a marketing tool and the basis for building a brand image and reputation, its potential as a valuable business asset is looked into. Thus it also becomes a means for catapulting a service or product to popularity.

Finally, the Indian Parliament passed the Patents Bill (Bill No. 32-C of 2005). The Bill replaces the Patents Ordinance, 2004. For the first time in independent India’s history, national newspapers carried 4-column headline news covering ‘patents’. Patents Bill was also the topic of prime-time news in national TV channels.

The purpose of filing pre-grant representation before the grant of a patent is to allow a third party to challenge the grant of a patent in a simple procedural manner.

The Supreme Court of India, in its landmark judgment in Competition Commission of India vs Schott Glass India Pvt. Ltd., has provided authoritative guidance on the interpretation and application...

This article is a follow up to my article: ‘Need Soft Patents for Software Inventions'; in fact, it is one in the series analysing the patentability of ‘computer related inventions.'