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Sri Lanka has been on the lines of becoming a major hub of business in the South Asia market. Sri Lanka does provide a suitable...

The purpose of the Invention Secrecy Act, 1951 The Invention Secrecy Act was created to restrict the exportation of classified...

Congratulations if you have secured a patent in India – truly well-deserved going through all that you’ve gone through. It could now be...

Once a patent application has been refused by the Controller of Patents, the applicant still has an opportunity to get a grant. This can...

The granting of secondary use patents in the pharmaceutical industry has become more prominent after the negotiations of the TRIPS...

A Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program has commenced between the Indian Patent Office (IPO) and the Japan Patent...

This article discusses challenges faced by patent applicants for inventions in the field of Immunology, especially those relating to gene...

Intellectual Property Rights are jurisdictional in nature. Hence, instances wherein different patent applications for the same subject...

Recently, the government of India issued a notification throughthe Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Department of Industrial Policy and...

A Patent infringement lawsuit was filed by Communication Components Antenna INC against alleged infringer Ace Technologies Corp and its...

INTRODUCTION With as many as 47854 patents filed and 13035 granted in the single financial year of 2017-2018 , it is obvious that keeping...

It is a general rule that once pronounced by a Court a judgment becomes functus officio and it cannot be altered or changed. However, an...

The nature of Intellectual Property Rights is such that, like any other law, it has loopholes as well as overlaps. These overlaps arise...

As a result to the PIL filed by Prof. Shamnad Basheer, complaining against IPO for noncompliance of section 146 (working statement of...

The 2017 fad of fidget spinners hasn’t yet faded, but in fact is intensively growing globally. For those who are not aware of this toy,...

This article focuses on the involvement of Section 3(k) in the process of patent application of Apple titled ‘a method for browsing data...

Section 3k is often criticized for its ambiguity of the words “computer programme per se ”. Though the Indian Patent Act doesn’t...

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has amended Patent Rules 2003 with effect from 1 st December 2017 called as...

The process of applying for patents in Singapore will become much easier and more efficient after Intellectual Property Office of...

Myanmar, also known as Burma, a least developed country in mainland South-East Asia, is still in its embryonic phase of Intellectual...