PROCEDURAL RELAXATIONS IN PATENT FILING The Parliamentary Committee Report on evaluating the IPR regime in India dated 23rd July, 2021 has been tabled in both Houses of the Parliament. The Report has been the subject of study amongst various IP scholars. The Report has made several recommendations regarding amendment of substantial provisions to the Patents …
The Parliamentary Committee Report tabled in July 2021 made several recommendations regarding the Intellectual Property (IP) regime in India. The suggestions made regarding amendments to the Patents Act have been discussed in our Newsletter 30. As we know, Artificial Intelligence (AI) mainly aims to develop systems and mechanisms with the ability to perform the tasks …
For the first time in India, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) device has been registered as a co-author in a copyrighted work. Titled “Suryast”, the painting is said to have been created by “Raghav”(an artificial intelligence painting app) and one Mr. Ankit Sahni an IP lawyer who owns the said App. In an interview with an …
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South Africa has accepted a patent application naming an AI as an inventor, and has marked a new milestone in the evolution of patent law. The patent is for “a food container based on fractal geometry that improves grip and heat transfer,” and was accepted by South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission on June …
As a part of examination of the subject, the Committee considered the subject in detail in its five meetings wherein it heard the views of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); legal associates i.e. Amarjit & Associates, Ajay Sahni & Associates, and Subramaniam …
Patents are a nuanced and complex set of property rights requiring various skills at various levels of their management. Once a scientific invention has been made, the procedure to register with the Patent Office and secure a patent and later safeguard this patent and its bundle of affiliated rights from infringement requires the services of …
INTRODUCTION Following the Biden administration’s public expression of support to the patent waiver request filed by India and South Africa at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), several leading magazines and newspapers have published articles and editorials regarding the effectiveness of such a measure. Given the importance of the topic, we present a sequel to last …
In October 2020, India and South Africa presented a request in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for suspension of IP rights in medicines and medical equipment used in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. The debate while sparking a debate on the general IP framework and its morality also placed special focus on the …
The patent system’s exceptionalism itself manifests its complexity. The patent professionals including agents, attorneys, or any other person associated with the patent system are expected to possess the necessary qualifications to enable them to perform their role. In order to obtain patent protection in any country, a patent application has to be filed in the …
As per section 2(1)(j) of the patents Act, 1970 an invention means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application. Since patents are granted to inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology, it is important to ascertain from the nature of the claimed Computer-related invention whether …
Amendment of a patent may include amendment of patent application, patent specification or other related documents. In most cases patents are not granted in the way they are filed. An applicant may require certain changes in such documents to comply with the specific statutory provision envisioned in the Act. Thus amendment plays a vital role …
According to Section 48 of the Patents Act, a patentee is conferred with exclusive right to prevent third parties from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing a patent. However, there can be certain limitations to these rights. One such limitation is international exhaustion of patent rights under Section 107A (b) of the Patents …
According to Section 6 of the Patents Act, 1970 a person claiming to be the true and first inventor of the invention, assignee of the person claiming to be the true and first inventor and the legal representative of any deceased person who immediately before his death was entitled to make such an application can …
The basis of patent law lies in the protection and enforcement of patent rights of innovators which in turn contribute to the promotion of technological innovation in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare. Under the Indian patent Act, section 146(1) empowers the Controller of Patents to direct any patentee or licensee to furnish …
Selection patents can be said as those patents which claim particular compounds to be individually new but as falling within an earlier disclosure of a broader group of compounds for which protection is already claimed. The law regarding selection patents is essentially developed to protect the original inventor, as regards to the invention he has …
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