In an extremely surprising order, Justice Sistani of the Delhi High Court passed an ex-parte interim injunction, on the 16th of September, 2011 against Symed Laboratories Ltd. in a lawsuit filed by Vifor (International) Ltd., a European Pharmaceutical Company for the violation of its Indian patent no. 221536. It must be noted that the patent has been granted to Vifor (International) AG i.e. the Swiss parent company and not Vifor (International) Ltd, which is the entity that has filed the […]

Continuing from my last post on Astella’s patent infringement lawsuit against Micro-Labs, I’ve managed to access the details of the file wrapper from the IPAIRs system and I thought it would be interesting to point out a few of the other issues that may arise in the challenge Astella’s Indian Patent No: 234753. Let me also insert the caveat that the accuracy of this post is directly dependant on the accuracy of the information uploaded on the IPAIRs system and

We have recently received information about an interesting patent infringement case filed by Astellas Pharma Europe B.V. (‘Astellas’) a company incorporated in the Netherlands, before the Delhi High Court (C.S. (O.S.) No. 1166 of 2011) against Micro-Labs Ltd., a Bangalore based Indian pharmaceutical company. Despite the distinctly European name of the Plaintiff, it is in reality a subsidiary of a Japanese company, which in itself is the child of a merger between two Japanese companies. For some reason, probably one