Supreme Court of India | Decided: 14 February 2014 Civil Appeal Nos. 2086-2087 of 2013 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla Citation: (2014) 5 SCC 1 | AIR 2014 SC 3152 | 2014 SCC OnLine SC 156 Background Enercon GmbH is a German company and one
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Single Judge | Date of Decision: 28 March, 2026 Case Number: C.A.(COMM.IPD-PAT) 486/2022 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND In NEC Corporation v. Assistant Controller The Appellant, NEC Corporation, is the applicant for Patent Application No. 201717010986, filed on 28.03.2017 before the Patent Office, New Delhi as
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High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, Division Bench | Date of Decision: July 1, Case Number: LPA 545/2024 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. Hari Shankar and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Om Prakash Shukla BACKGROUND The Appellant, Sulzer Mixpac AG, filed Application No. 1329/DEL/2012 on 1 May 2012 before the Controller of Patents seeking registration of
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Supreme Court of India | April 27, 1962 | AIR 1963 SC 449 S.K. Das, M. Hidayatullah & J.C. Shah, JJ. Background Amritdhara Pharmacy had been selling a popular ayurvedic medicinal preparation under the mark “Amritdhara” since 1901 (initially as “Amrit Ki Dhara,” later changed to “Amritdhara” in 1903). The medicine was introduced by Pandit
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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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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Competition Law and Patent Licensing in India – CCI Jurisdiction, SEPs, FRAND and the Definitive Ericsson Rulings Patents and competition law sit in a relationship of permanent structural tension. A patent is, by design, a legal monopoly that the State grants an inventor the exclusive right to prevent all others from making, using, selling, or
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, 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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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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