The Patents Act 1970, along with the Patents Rules 1972, came into force on 20th April 1972, replacing the Indian Patents and Designs Act 1911. The Patents Act was largely based on the recommendations of the Ayyangar Committee Report headed by Justice N. Rajagopala Ayyangar. One of the recommendations was the allowance of only process patents with regard to inventions relating to drugs, medicines, food and chemicals.

The presentPatents Act, 1970 came into force in the year 1972, amending and consolidating the existing law relating to Patents in India

US case looks at the Australian "fair dealing" defence & reminds us that Fair Use is not a defence in Australia

Fair use supports "socially laudable purposes," typically, if not exclusively, involving the use of the copyrighted work by a second author

Many entrepreneurs do not comprehend the importance of a TM search.

A Trade mark may be defined as a lawfully protected abstract, word, symbol, color, mark, slogan or a mixture of those related to an organization or a selected product that differentiates it from the others accessible within the market.