Roche and Tarceva in Delhi HC again, this time vs. Natco

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F Hoffman La Roche, the Swiss-based drugs multinational, has re-entered the Delhi High Court in an infringement matter over the Tarceva patent. This time, Roche has sued Natco Pharma, and specifically, their anti-cancer drug sold “Erlonat”, which it is alleged infringes Roche’s patent rights over their anti-cancer drug, Tarceva. Readers will recall instantly that Tarceva is the same drug over which Roche has fought Cipla before various benches of the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court, all of which […]

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Indian Copyright Amendments: Making Bollywood Fairer?

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The copyright amendment bill is certain to prove the most significant IP development for India this year. We are therefore inviting guest posts from those of you who might be interested in blogging of specific aspects of this bill. Please write and let us know if you are interested and we promise to publish those pieces that are conceptually clear, advance logically coherent arguments and read well overall. Apart from the PRS website, Prashant informs me that a current version

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Spicy IP Tidbit: WIPO celebrates World IP Day by unveiling New Logo

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On April 26, 2010, a day that marked the 10th anniversary of the World IP day as well as the 40th anniversary of the day the WIPO Convention had been entered into force, WIPO has chosen to come up with its new logo. This may be considered to be an effort on WIPO’s part to provide a new visual identity for the Organization, in conjunction with the new steps being taken to keep up with the manner in which IP

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SpicyIP Interview: KritiKal and innovative solutions for India

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SpicyIP hopes its readers have had an interesting World IP Day so far, and have some innovative celebrations for the times ahead! Following up on Shamnad’s succinct and timely editorial on India’s engagement with the world of IP, I pick on one of the issues he raised for this post — innovation in India, and the need to create incentives for the abundant and sometimes latent creativity that lies within the Indian people. Appropriately enough, WIPO (which has a new

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Indian Patent Office Publishes Details of Pharma Product Patents

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In what is certainly a significant step towards increasing transparency by making available information, the Indian Patent Office has published two documents listing the details of pharmaceutical product patents granted by it in the last three years, one of which specifically lists pharma product patents granted to foreign applicants. This could prove to be instrumental in increasing the rate of post-grant oppositions. That said, could this step draw criticism from certain quarters for bringing only pharmaceutical product patents under the spotlight?

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India and TRIPS on World IP Day: A Gripping Rendezvous

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SpicyIP wishes all of its readers a wonderful World IP day! May this day and the days that follow unleash your creativity and imagination and spur an inventive zeal in all that you do. To mark this momentous day, the Mint commissioned an editorial on India’s IP journey after 15 years of TRIPS. The piece is as below: India’s Tryst with TRIPS The year 1995 proved a watershed for international intellectual property (IP) issues. It heralded the birth of the

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‘Working’ a Patent under the Indian Patent Act, 1970 – Does importation of a patented invention count?

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In early January this year Sai had carried a post on a public notice issued by the Patent Office, under Section 146 of the Patents Act, requesting all patentees to furnish statements, by 31st of March, 2010, in the format prescribed by Form 27 on how their patents were being worked in India. Form 27 is available on the Patent Office website over here and requires the patentee to furnish the following information: (i)Is the patent being worked in India?(ii)If

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Guest Post: ACTA – A Draft Trade Agreement with a Potential to Create Trade Barriers?

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The Spicy IP team is delighted to bring to the readers a Guest Post by Dr. Henning Große Ruse–Khan, who has kindly agreed to share with us the following comment on the ACTA draft and its potential to mandate trade barriers: After years of secrecy and forced by recent leaks (see here), the negotiating parties to an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), currently the EU, the US, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Morocco, and Switzerland, now have released an ‘official’ draft

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Graham Dutfield on Traditional Medicines and Patents – Excerpts from the talk

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We present to you the excerpts from the talk delivered by Prof.Graham Dutfield,Leeds University,UK on traditional medicines and patents.We thank Prajna R.Mahapatra,a third year student of NUJS Kolkata and an enthusiastic member of IPTLS for her painstaking efforts in preparing this note. Our podcast friendly readers (listeners actually) can also access the podcast here. Speaking at the a talk titled “From Traditional Medicines to Modern Drugs: Do Patents Protect Inventions and Promote Piracy?” as a part of the I(P)DEATE Series,

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