A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court earlier this month made critical remarks on the government’s failure to finalize the drug policy pending since 2003, calling it a ‘slur on the face of all stake-holders’. Following this, the Group of Ministers held meetings to consider a retail pricing mechanism for essential drugs. It was agreed that the prices of 348 drugs set out in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) will be covered under the policy. The drug policy is vital […]

Notable developments in India 1. Kruttika Vijay, an ex-blogger at SpicyIP wrote a guest post on an important design case involving Whirlpool and Videocon. The specific design aspect was a washing machine which had a rectangular shape on one side and a semi-circular shape on the other with a jettisoned panel for the knobs. The court found that the design could not be invalidated despite arguments being advanced that it was not novel and had previously been published. Using the