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May 7, 2021

Compulsory License: A tool to help supplies cope up with demands in the crisis

In April, 2021 India got hit by the second wave of Corona Virus spread leaving lacs of people in its wake. For the past few days India has been reporting about 4 lac new cases every single day according to the government figures. With the current surge in Covid-19 cases there has been a critical shortage of supply of Covid-19 drugs. Compulsory license can be seen as the only and most efficient strategy to meet the paucity of Covid-19 drugs. In...

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April 13, 2021

PATENT LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS : A RUN-THROUGH

As a common belief, around 80% of the technological and scientific information contained in patents is not published anywhere else. There are literally millions of published patents and patent applications that are available for review to the public. This overwhelming treasure of information would only useful be when critical and relevant references in the given subject matter are identified and analyzed in a manner that provides information for actionable decision making. Patent Landscape Analysis; is the proven multistep process to parse...

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March 23, 2021

Pre-Grant Patent Opposition

Litigation for invalidating patents can be very lengthy and costly and therefore one way out of such long and expensive remedy is “Patent-opposition”. The Patents Act 1970, provides with two types of patent opposition i.e. “pre-grant” and “post-grant” under section 25 of the Act. The reason as to why these oppositions are at a better footing in terms of cost and time is because these proceedings are time bound. As per section 25(1) read with Rule 55 of the Patents Act,...

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Compulsory License: A tool to help supplies cope up with demands in the crisis

PATENT LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS : A RUN-THROUGH

Pre-Grant Patent Opposition