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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