Month: December 2022

In March 2023, the Delhi High Court will consider two significant rejections by the Patent Office (PTO) that will determine the fate of diagnostic method patents in India. The PTO recently rejected EMD Millipore’s patent application involving IR based spectroscopy and Sequenom’s patent application involving non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnostics on the grounds that both inventions

Part I provides factual context to the post below. Interpreting Section 3(i) Section 3 is the key section on “patent eligibility” and lists out what are not “inventions” under the Indian Patents Act. One such non-eligible patentable subject matter is listed in Section 3(i): “Any process for the medicinal, surgical, curative, prophylactic, diagnostic, therapeutic or

                        While according paramount importance to following the due process of law in following all procedural requirements in an investigation even by men in uniform, the Bombay High Court has in an extremely commendable, courageous, cogent and creditworthy oral judgment titled Vikram S/o Madhukar

                         While upholding the right to publish judgments, the Kerala High Court in a most learned, laudable, logical, landmark and latest judgment titled Vysakh K.G. vs Union of India & Anr. And Other Connected Cases in W.P.(C).Nos. 26500/2020 and others and cited in 2022

Happy holidays to all our readers! After another eventful week on the blog, we are here with our weekly reviews summarizing the 5 posts covered on the blog along with 19 case summaries and other national and international IP developments. Highlights of the Week IP Reveries: Class 5.2 – Interrogating India’s Drug Regulation System Prof.

Candidates preparing for U.P. Judicial Services Exam should solve the U.P. Judicial Services Exam Mains 2015 Paper (General Knowledge) and other previous year question papers before they face Prelims and Mains. It also gives an idea about the syllabus and how to prepare the subjects by keeping the previous year’s questions in mind. All toppers

Legal Bites brings you a roundup of Important Legal Updates of 2022, which played a significant role. Important Legal Updates of 2022 – Legal Bites Year Update I. SC appoints a 5-member Panel headed by ex-judge Indu Malhotra to probe the PM security breach On January 12, 2022, the Supreme Court appointed an inquiry committee

                                    It is really most heartening, most refreshing and most enriching to learn from various news reports that the Haryana State Government led by the Chief Minister Hon’ble Mr Manoharlal Khattar as reported widely in most national newspapers

          I really wonder many times and it is certainly beyond my comprehension that why when there is so much of brouhaha over “uniform civil code” with newspapers since last so many decades but no one has any time to ever debate over “uniform bench code”. Not even once in my