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Monsanto’s Patent on Method of Producing Transgenic Plants refused by IPAB
Monsanto’s Indian patent application 2407/DEL/NP/2006 on transgenic plants with heat/salt/draught tolerant plants is rejected by IPAB. The subject patent application is directed to a method of producing a draught/stress/heat/salt/drug tolerant transgenic plants by inserting a recombinant DNA molecule that expresses a cold shock protein CspA or CspB. The subject patent application was rejected by the … Continue reading Monsanto’s Patent on Method of Producing Transgenic Plants refused by IPAB
Read more »IPO displays Month & year of RFE that are being examined
Indian Patent Office (IPO) makes available a dynamic grid here also shown below: IPO will make the month and year for the Request for Examination (RFE) filed that are currently being examined and the First Examination Report (FER) being issued, for each of the Groups, as displayed hereinabove. IPO also states that if FER is … Continue reading IPO displays Month & year of RFE that are being examined
Read more »Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2013
Indian Patent Office (IPO) has recently published Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2013 here and has invited comments (objections or suggestions) from public within 45 days from the publication of the notification (12th June 2013). The main changes proposed are the following: 1. There is a 100% hike in official fees for almost all the proceedings … Continue reading Draft Patents (Amendment) Rules 2013
Read more »Advocate as a Patent Agent, without passing the exam?
Gaurav Jit Singh, an intern at Khurana and Khurana talks regarding a recent judgement about case of declaring any advocate as Patent Agent without passing the Patent Agent Examination and the judgement from the court. The judgment, dated March 15, 2013, declares amendment introduced via Section 67 (a) of the Patents (Amendment) Act of 2005 … Continue reading Advocate as a Patent Agent, without passing the exam?
Read more »VERNON HUGH BOWMANv/s MONSANTO COMPANY et al. (US No. 11-796, 2013) Case of Patent Exhaustion
Gajendra Khichi, an intern at Khurana and Khurana talks about case of patent exhaustion or doctrine of exhaustion. Through this post, he gives special emphasis on the recent case of Vernon Hugh Bowman v/s Monsanto Company et al., which created quite a stir regarding patentability of seeds and plants. Today, when you acquire a new patented machine, … Continue reading VERNON HUGH BOWMANv/s MONSANTO COMPANY et al. (US No. 11-796, 2013) Case of Patent Exhaustion
Read more »India Joins Madrid Protocol
India became signatory to the Madrid Protocol for International Registration of Marks at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on 8th April 2013. Now, Indian applications can register their Trade Marks in as many as 89 countries through a single application. India is the 14th G-20 economy to accede to the protocol. The treaty will … Continue reading India Joins Madrid Protocol
Read more »The Glivec saga in India is finally over
As it has been widely covered by media in and outside India, it is no new news to pharmaceutical and patent fraternity that Novartis has lost about 7 year long legal battle to secure a patent protection for its invention on beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate in India. A 112 page long Supreme Court judgement … Continue reading The Glivec saga in India is finally over
Read more »Khurana and Khurana win an award from Corporate Intl Magazine
We are pleased to announce that our firm Khurana and Khurana Advocates and IP Attorneys has been chosen as the winner of 2013 Corporate Intl Magazine Legal Award for the category of ‘IP Patents Law Firm of the Year in India’. Since 2005, Corporate Intl has been firmly established as one of the leading monthly … Continue reading Khurana and Khurana win an award from Corporate Intl Magazine
Read more »Copyfight or Copyright?- An analysis on the legal scenario of parallel importation
On 19 March, 2013, in a closely divided 6-3 judgment in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley, the U.S. Supreme Court held that copyright law could not be used to prevent parallel importation into USA for works that are made outside USA. The facts of the case are as follows: In 1997, a student named Supap Kirtsaeng, … Continue reading Copyfight or Copyright?- An analysis on the legal scenario of parallel importation
Read more »What is a Priority Date of a Patent of Addition?
This Article would not discuss as to what is a patent of addition, when does it expire etc., answers to which are clearly mentioned in the Indian Patents Act. Briefly to sum up, a Patent of addition can be filed at any time either before or after the grant of a main application for an … Continue reading What is a Priority Date of a Patent of Addition?
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