The Evolution of Compulsory Licensing in India: Post-COVID Trends

Abstract Compulsory licensing under India’s Patents Act has always been a contested space, walking the tightrope between protecting pharmaceutical innovation and ensuring affordable public access to medicines. The debate took on renewed urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, when shortages of drugs and vaccines brought the issue into sharp focus. Although Indian law contains strong provisions […]

Concept Of Compulsory Licensing Under The Patents Act

An inventor is allotted with the patent right in exchange for disclosing its invention. Apart from the inventor of that patent, the public is being benefited most. Therefore it must be taken into consideration that the invention is made surely available to the public. But there seems to a danger of misuse of such monopolistic […]

Compulsory Licensing In India

Meaning of Patent WIPO defines patent as an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.[1] A patentee shall have exclusive rights over his invention for a period of 20 years, and […]