India: Trademark

The viewpoint of being able to provide cheap drugs to a population which cannot afford it has started yet another debate in the pharma sector about how drug companies should price the life saving drugs in the developing world.

In an eagerly awaited decision, India's Controller of Patents has granted a licence to generics pharmaceutical manufacturer, Natco Pharma Ltd (Natco) to manufacture Bayer's patented anticancer drug 'Naxavar'.

In Scan Biotech India & Another v Scan Biotech India , Scan Biotech India & Another (Plaintiffs), a pharmaceutical product manufacturing concern sought permanent injunction against Scan Biotech India (Defendant) for their use of the trademark "BOLRAN" and the use of the trade name "SCAN BIOTEK INDIA".

The German Federal Court of Justice/ German Bundesgerichtshof was recently tasked to analyse whether the ever-so-popular Birkenstock sandals are a work of art.

Last year, the American Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") settled its first lawsuit against discrimination in hiring by an AI tool.

The Ghibli Trend involves using Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "AI") tools and heavy filters to alter images and videos, making them look like they belong in a Studio Ghibli film...

Intellectual property laws allow its owners to exclude others from performing certain specified acts, at the same time it allows him to grant third parties special permission to perform any of those acts through licensing, while retaining ownership.

As millions tune into their love for cricket, we log into another IPL: the Indian policy landscape (IPL). This IPL looks more like a test match though, not a T20 — we are all in it for the long haul.

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In a recent judgement, the Hon'ble High Court of Madras has clarified that a method of supplementing animal feed...

The Calcutta High Court has set aside the rejection of grant of patent for an invention titled...

Access to affordable medical care is a fundamental right of every human being. From the perspective of patent law, in India, generally the focus has been on pharmaceutical drugs and how patent law can balance the right of public to affordable drugs viz-a-viz the right of innovators.