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