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National IPR Policy 2016 India: Objectives, Reforms & Impact

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India’s adoption of a comprehensive National Intellectual Property Rights Policy on 12 May 2016 marked an inflection point in the country’s engagement with the knowledge economy. For the first time, the government brought all forms of intellectual property – patents, trademarks, copyrights, geographical indications, industrial designs, semiconductor integrated circuit layout designs, trade secrets and plant […]

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K.K. Bansal & Rajesh Bansal v. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Division Bench | Decided: 18 May 2026 RFA(OS)(COMM) No. 17 of 2018 & RFA(OS)(COMM) No. 18 of 2018 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Om Prakash Shukla Background A. Standard Essential Patents – Prefatory Note The Division Bench commenced its judgment with an

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Mold Tek Packaging Limited v. Pronton Plast Pack Pvt. Ltd.

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High Court of Delhi | Division Bench | 11 July 2025 Case Number: FAO (COMM) 114/2024, CM APPL. 34224/2024 & CM APPL. 34226/2024 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Digpaul BACKGROUND The appellant, Mold Tek Packaging Limited, was the plaintiff in CS (Comm) 668/2023, instituted before the learned District

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Divisional Patent Application in India: Section 16 Explained

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Divisional Patent Application in India Section 16, Unity of Invention and the Post- Boehringer and Syngenta Legal Landscape Among the more technically demanding areas of Indian patent prosecution, divisional applications occupy a position of outsized practical importance. The ability to divide a patent application to carve out one or more inventions embedded in a parent

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Philip Morris Products S.A. v. Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs & Anr.

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High Court of Delhi | 17 April 2026 Case Numbers: C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 6/2024, 40/2024, 49/2024, 61/2024, 79/2024, 28/2024, 32/2024 and 27/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Jyoti Singh BACKGROUND This common order disposes of eight connected appeals, all filed by the same appellant, Philip Morris Products S.A., under Section 117A of the Patents Act, 1970, against orders

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Biosimilar Patents in India – Patentability, Exclusivity and the Patent-Regulatory Interface

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Biologics occupy a peculiar and increasingly central place in modern medicine   large, complex molecules manufactured through living cell systems rather than chemical synthesis, used to treat cancer, autoimmune disease and a growing list of conditions for which no small-molecule alternative exists. As the patents covering the first generation of blockbuster biologics   Herceptin, Avastin, Rituxan, Humira

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Vishal Prafulsingh Solanke & Anr. v. Controller of Patent and Designs & ors.

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High Court of Judicature at Bombay | Commercial Appellate Division | 9 March 2026 Case Number: Commercial Appeal (L) No. 13430 of 2025 in Commercial Miscellaneous Petition No. 110 of 2025 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Bharati Dangre and Hon’ble Ms. Justice Manjusha Deshpande, JJ. Citation: 2026:BHC-OS:7027-DB BACKGROUND The appellants, Vishal Prafulsingh Solanke and another, filed

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Agriboard International LLC v. Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs

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High Court of Delhi  Decided: 31 March 2022 C.A. (COMM.IPD-PAT) 4/2022 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Prathiba M. Singh Background Agriboard International LLC is a company incorporated in the United States engaged in the development of methods and apparatus for the manufacture of compressed structural fiberboard from agricultural fibrous matter, particularly rice straw. On March 14,

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Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies Pvt. Ltd. v. Deputy Controller of Patent and Designs & Anr.

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High Court of Delhi | 12 March 2026, Case Number: C.A. (COMM.IPD-PAT) 3/2025 & I.A. 3472/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Jyoti Singh BACKGROUND The appellant, Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is a company specialising in sustainable energy storage solutions, particularly sodium-ion battery technology, with a focus on transforming agricultural and bio-waste such as cattle

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