Strategic Delay Backfires: How Novartis Lost Its Cross-Examination Rights

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Recently, the DHC disposed of Novartis’ writ petition against the Controller’s orders to continue the post-grant opposition before allowing Novartis to cross-examine the Opponents’ experts. Anushka Kanabar breaks down the judgment, discusses how Novartis’ strategy backfired, and explains why the Controller’s decision does not violate the principles of natural justice. Anushka is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University. Her previous posts can be accessed here. Strategic Delay Backfires: How Novartis Lost Its Cross-Examination […]

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(Sponsored) IP8 Launches pioneering Agentic AI for Continuous Global Patent Infringement Surveillance

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IP8, an infringement monitoring platform by the team behind PatSeer, is launching an agentic AI solution for continuous global infringement surveillance. To know more, please read on below:- IP8 Launches pioneering Agentic AI for Continuous Global Patent Infringement Surveillance (18 September 2025) New York – IP8, an enterprise-ready infringement monitoring platform built by the team behind PatSeer, today launches a market-defining service that helps IP teams identify up to 10× more monetizable infringement opportunities while reducing investigation time by up

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Smoke and Mirrors: BHC Denies Interim Relief After Finding Both Parties Approached with Unclean Hands

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[This post is authored by Anushka Kanabar. Anushka is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University. Her previous posts can be accessed here.] A recent decision by the Bombay High Court in Velji Karamshi Vaid v. V3 Fashion & Ors. illustrates the deciding role principles of equity like the clean hands doctrine can play in interim injunction proceedings. Through an order dated September 9, 2025, the Court dismissed Velji Karamshi Vaid’s application for an interim

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Frimline and the Future of Open-Ended Transition Phrases in Indian Patent Law

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On the Delhi High Court’s recent order in Frimline v. Smatco, Anushka Kanabar explains how the order is another step in the judicial shift towards a broad interpretation of claim construction, which is aligned with the US’ approach. Anushka is a fourth-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University. Her previous posts can be accessed here. Frimline and the Future of Open-Ended Transition Phrases in Indian Patent Law By Anushka Kanabar In its recent decision

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Part II: A Peek Behind the Curtains of the Patent Amendment Rules 2024: A Diversity Analysis

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In continuation of the discussion on Prashant’s RTI, which revealed some spicy behind-the-scenes details about the Draft Patent Amendment Rules, 2023 consultation, Arnav Kaman assesses the diversity of stakeholders who participated in the process by sending their comments and highlights the glaring absence of academia from it. Arnav is a 4th year law student from the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. His previous posts can be accessed here. A Diversity Analysis of the Consultation on the Draft Patent

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Part I: A Peek Behind the Curtains of the Patent Amendment Rules 2024

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In early July, Prashant shared with us a mammoth RTI response containing juicy insights on the comments received on the Patent Rules and the 2021 Standing Committee Report on the IP regime in India. The response also included the Patent Office’s replies to stakeholders’ comments on the Draft Patent Rules, 2023, which reveal an interesting contrast between their position and the ultimate outcome on some provisions, as well as other considerations (such as the FTA negotiations) owing to which the

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Knowledge as (Constitutional) Commons, Knowledge as Commodity: Assessing the Implications of Delhi HC’s Sci-Hub Order through Boyle’s ‘Second Enclosure Movement’

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Assessing the implications of the Sci-hub blocking order from the lens of James Boyle’s work, “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain” (2003), Sarthak Gupta explains how it affects education, research, and scientific progress in the country. Sarthak is a lawyer currently serving as a Judicial Law Clerk-cum-Research Associate to Justice Sandeep Mehta at the Supreme Court of India. He was not involved in the case in any capacity, and all views expressed are his own, not

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 8 – September 14)

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Midway to September – a post on the problems of the Indian SEP-Antitrust Gridlock. A two part post on the Pandemic Agreement’s PABS system and another on the Karnataka HC between revocation petition and a patent infringement proceeding. This and a lot more on last week’s SpicyIP Weekly Review. Here’s a roundup of our blog posts, case summaries and top IP developments in the country and the world this week. Anything we are missing out on? Drop a comment below

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License to Kill (Innovation): Problems of the Indian SEP-Antitrust Gridlock

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In light of the anticlimactic end to the Ericsson v. CCI dispute, SpicyIP Tech Innovation Policy Fellow Ambika Aggarwal writes on how the long battle for sectoral power and the lack of policy guidance from the Patent and Competition Law authorities, especially in matters of SEP and antitrust overlaps, divert focus from markets and affect innovation incentives and domestic competition. Ambika is a Ph.D. (IP Law) scholar at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Her experience includes working as a Research

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Part II: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Delving into the Entanglements of the PABS Annex

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Continuing the discussion on Stephanie Switzer, Adam Strobeyko, Mark Eccleston-Truner, Sylvain Aubry, and Michelle Rourke’s paper on Pandemic Agreement’s Annex, in Part II of the post, Srishti discusses the considerations put forth in the paper. Srishti is a third-year student at National Law University, Delhi. Her previous posts can be accessed here. Part II: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Delving into the Entanglements of the PABS Annex In Part I, the blog post dived into suggestions proposed in the paper

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