India's generics industry has made affordable medications available worldwide. This success is entwined with its evolving patent laws, particularly for pharmaceuticals. This blog explores India's pharmaceutical patent landscape, its influence on innovation, drug access, and public health. The 1970 Patent Act was a turning point for India, initially recognizing only the methods of drug production for patenting, with a pr...Read More

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Biotechnology is the process of using biological science to create new ways, products, or goods that are useful for living organisms and contribute to the health and technology advancement of society. The most common application of biotechnology involves the development of medicines or proteins th...Read More

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Intellectual property rights are legal rights given to the inventor or creator to protect his invention for a certain period of time. The objective is to foster innovation, protecting investments in research and development, increasing overall efficiency of the market resulting in promotio...Read More

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The issue of patent protection and its impact on drug accessibility and pricing is an important part of today's global intellectual property discourse. This debate continues to be a source of dispute, raising concerns about striking a balance between protecting patents and ensuring that vital pha...Read More

One kind of IP right, similar to trademarks and ‘copyrights’, is a ‘patent’. The ‘Latin word patere’ meaning ‘to lay open,’ as in render accessible to other people's examination, is where the concept of ‘patent’ originates. An innovation is not allowed to be made, used, or sold by anybody else for a parti...Read More

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Intellectual property rights, or IPRs, are the rights that individuals have to protect their ideas, creations, inventions, and other forms of intellectual property. Creators are granted exclusive...Read More

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Patent is a limited exclusive monopoly right granted by the government of India for an invention to the inventor or assignee as a territorial right in consideration of disclosure of the invention to the Government. In simpler words, Patent is a protection given to inventor for his inventions for a l...Read More

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The article aims to identify the general definition of patent analysis and the procedure for the same. Moreover, the article also aims to discuss various searches that are associated with Patent analytics i.e., Knock out search, Collection search, Novelty Search, and State of the Art sea...Read More

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The implementation of the Unitary Patent System (UPS) commenced on the 1st of June, 2023. Earlier, the European patent system posed challenges to the competitiveness of European businesses and businesses seeking patent protection in Europe. It was thus essential to offer patent applicants and...Read More

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Patent means granting exclusive authority to the inventor, who has invented something new and this new invention has introduced a new method, process or solution to an existing problem. In simpler words a patent is granted to a person and he gets exclusive rights for the invention this exclusive ...Read More

The Delhi High Court, through its decision dated 13th July 2023 has shed light on a fundamental question regarding the overlapping portions of patent and competition law in the Indian legal landscape. The key question addressed here was whether or not the...Read More

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A patent is a right granted to an inventor to commercially exploit his or her invention to the exclusion of others. It can be obtained for a new or improved machine or process, article of manufacture, or chemical composition.

The "first-to-f...Read More

In South Africa the Intellectual Property Rights are either registered or unregistered. Formal applications for registering IP rights are made via the appropriate government channels while the unregistered rights exist from the creation of IP.

A patent is a tool that grants the owner of the patent an unrestricted, exclusiv...Read More

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Today, generation is growing now not only at a totally fast pace but it is getting subtle to the general public at massive or even to individuals who are staying in far flung corners of the sector at a pace formerly unknown.

The new technology ...Read More

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A patent is an exclusive right granted to the inventor of an invention to forbid others from using, making, selling, or otherwise commercially exploiting the invention. It is granted by the respective governments, for a particular span to incentivise inventors and promote creativity. To grant a patent, the g...Read More