The latest decisions of the “Intellectual Property Appellate Board’s (IPAB)”to revoke the patent protection of Gefitinib, the cancer drug patented by AstraZeneca; Pegasys, hepatitis drug patented by Roche and Nexavar, the cancer drug patented by Bayer are the major setbacks of big pharmaceutical companies of India. In the above cases, the Indian generic companies have […]
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Patent Exhaustion is also known as first sale doctrine. Under the doctrine, the rights of the patent holders become exhausted after the sale. Therefore, the patent holder cannot sue anyone for the infringement for the sold patent. The drawback of the doctrine is that it did not clearly define the territorial status of the doctrine. […]
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“Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)”and other similar organizations approached WIPO to create a mechanism so that the blind and other disable people can get access to the copyrighted reading materials like others. On 21st June 2011, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, the European Union and its Member States, Mexico, Norway, Paraguay, the Russian Federation, the […]
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Indian copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012 is now waiting for the approval of president. Enacting the amended act is now a matter of time. You can get the details of the bill from here. The experts and the people related to the copyright laws started to analyze the pros and cons of the bill. The general […]
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India first enacted the Copyright law in the year of 1847 in the regime of East India Company. In the last 165 years, the copyright laws were amended several times to cater the needs of the changed social environment. Some changes are minor and some are the major changes. However, three major distinctive changes in […]
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The American invents act has taken a major legal step against the marking statute. Before the enforcement of American invents act, anyone could file a case against any company accusing for selling the product that marked with numbers of expired patents or patents which did not cover the products. The suit was filed as qui […]
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