The appellate board granted a patent to Resverlogix Corp. for an invention related toinflammatory agents for regulating interleukin-6 (IL-6) and/or vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM-1) after refusal by the patent office. The appellate authority considered the order of the controller to be against law and non-speaking. The order was based…

The patent office recently granted an application for application number 7124/CHENP/2010 to Immunogen Inc. The application claims cross-linkers and drug conjugates comprising said linkers. The applicant submitted that cross linkers of the invention lead to several unexpected advantages of the resulting immune-conjugates, such as increased drug loading, enhanced conjugate potency…

The Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court had created the Intellectual Property Division (“IPD”) in the Delhi High Court to deal with matters relating to Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”). The Delhi High Court has now published Rules to deal with the matters listed before it’s IPD.

The Supreme Court (SC) has extended the period of limitation till February 28 for filing any petition or appeal etc before any court or tribunal in the country. The extension came in light of the rise in Covid-19 cases in the country driven by the spread of the Omicron variant…

By Amita Arora Indian Patent Office dismissed design cancellation petitions filed by Tristar Products Pvt. Ltd. against Registered Design Nos. 267949 and 267950 in the name of Presto Industries (Registered Proprietor) The Petitioner filed the cancellation petitions on the following grounds: GROUND -I:    Design previously registered in India GROUND – II:…

 The High Court of Himachal Pradesh has granted an injunction to Boehringer Ingelheim against the respondents, MSN laboratories and Dr. Reddy Laboratories and the respondents have been restrained from infringing the patent rights of Boehringer Ingelheim under Indian Patent No. 268846. MSN laboratories and Dr. Reddy Laboratories are restrained from…

The High Court of Delhi is in the process of framing Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2021. A draft of the proposed “Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules,2021” has been published. The members of the Bar have been requested to send their comments through e-mail…

Following the Supreme Court’s order of September 23, 2021, which lifted the extension of limitation period for legal actions, enforced in wake of the surge in COVID-19 infection in India in March 2020, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks has issued a public notice on October 3, 2021.…

The Supreme Court (SC) has said that the relaxation granted on the limitation period for filing court cases in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic would come to an end on October 2. The SC ordered that period from March 15 last year till October 2 this year shall stand…

Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY introduced the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 on 21st September 2021. The amended rules provide a fee reduction for “educational institutions” and define “educational institution” as a university established or incorporated by or under Central Act,…