This article relates to a judgment of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (hereinafter IPAB) dated 20th January 2014 in the case “Abraxis BioScience LLC USA Vs Union of India” for a patent application no. 2899/DELNP/2005. The said patent application was…
Chet Kanojia’s Aereo has shaken up the Television Industry. A 43-Year-old immigrant from India, who as an outsider saw a system that most took for granted and who knew he could build a better mousetrap or at least a different…
This article is to highlight the recently decided case of Oriental Cuisines Private Ltd vs. Star Restaurants Pvt. Ltd, by the Hon’ble Delhi High Court regarding passing-off action based on the principles of the common law. Brief Facts of the…
Having seen a regular and growing number of queries from Indian Companies on U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) cases in the US (primarily companies having a domestic market in the US), this is a brief attempt to give clarity on…
This article relates to a recent judgment of IPAB in the case “NTT DoCoMo Inc. Vs The Controller of Patents and Designs” for a patent application No. 794/CHE/2006 which was refused to proceed further by the Indian patent office. A…
The intellectual property (IP) concepts that are applied today to the national laws and international treaties and organizations dating back to the eighteenth century. The IP laws vary from one country to another. The changes in Intellectual property laws also…
Akash Patel, an intern at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, looks at the nature of jurisdiction at the IPAB, its power, and authority. In a judgment dated July 08, 2013, a larger bench of Intellectual Property Appellate Board…
Gopikrishnan M and Akash Patel, interns at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, look at the Central Government’s power of Revocation of Patent in Public Interest. The Indian Patent Act,1970(hereinafter Act) empowers the Central Government to revoke any patent…
Gopikrishnan M, an intern at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, looks at Google Inc. been accused of infringing technology related to its searching technology itself. Yet another high-tech and high-profile patent war are on this one involving a…
Sanyukta Biswas, an intern at Khurana and Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, looks at the rights of singer, lyricist, and composer that have been incorporated by the 2012 amendment. Once upon a time in India even the most noted film…