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Annual Report 2024 of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
The Annual Report 2024 of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office has been published today. It is available in English, German, and French on the Boards' website. Delivering decisions of the highest quality continued to be a central priority in 2024. As in...
Certainty for businesses and choice for consumers as UK maintains IP rights regime
No legislative changes mean businesses can continue operating under the existing exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime without any new requirements. The UK+ regime protects creators and innovators while ensuring fair competition in the marketplace and...
Intellectual Property Salary Survey 2025
Caselton Clark shares a special edition of its 2025 Intellectual Property Salary Survey, providing a comprehensive analysis of salary and benefits trends over the past 10 years. The report covers various levels of seniority across the UK and parts of Europe. To access...
Crystal Crop v. Safex: Delhi High Court on Doctrine of Equivalents and prosecution history estoppel in patent disputes
In Crystal Crop Protection Ltd. v. Safex Chemicals India Ltd. & Ors., CS(COMM) 196/2024, Neutral Citation: 2025:DHC:3382, decided on May 7, 2025 by Hon’ble Mr Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court, the court refused to grant an interim injunction, holding...
Potter Clarkson appointed in landmark UK AI inventorship appeal
Appeal to be heard at the High Court in July 2025 could have major commercial ramifications for patents created with AI assistance or wholly by AI models. London - May 8, 2025 – Potter Clarkson, a leading intellectual property law firm, has been appointed by US-based...
Calcutta High Court sets aside template order in patent (post-grant) opposition proceedings
Terex India Private Limited (Terex) filed an appeal against the order passed by the Deputy Controller of Patent and Designs on March 2, 2023 (under Section 117A of The Patents Act, 1970), challenging the refusal of the post-grant opposition filed by Terex for the...
The obviousness-type double patenting saga continues!
It is very common for patentees to have multiple granted patents within the same patent family, and due to patent term adjustment (PTA), one or more of those patents could expire well beyond the expiration date of other patents in the family. However, what if an...
Diamond industry gets rocked: Sonani Industries injunction application rejected
The Hon'ble Division Bench, High Court of Gujarat recently delivered a judgment on July 19, 2024, in the patent infringement case involving Sonani Industries Pvt Ltd (formerly Sonani Jewels Pvt. Ltd.) and Galactica Processing Technologies LLP & Ors. This appeal...
El Salvador approves new Intellectual Property Law
The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has approved a new Intellectual Property Law, repealing the previous Law on Trademarks and Other Distinctive Signs, as well as the Intellectual Property Law that had been in force since 1993 and its regulations. The new law...
Ozempic’s impending patent expiry spurs development of biosimilars in mainland China
China has the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity in the world, owing to growing trends in Western dietary patterns, sedentary lifestyles, and urbanization, making it a lucrative market for GLP-1 receptor agonist developers. According to Clarivate...
King’s speech: AI implications for IP
What did the King’s Speech say about AI? Many of us working on inventions in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector were watching the King’s speech with anticipation following rumors of an AI bill. Although the speech did not explicitly commit to an AI bill, it did...
UK IPO issues fresh warning to beware of misleading invoices
Customers should not pay these and should always report them to the IPO IPO issues fresh alert to beware of unsolicited payment requests. Figures show a recent surge in such requests reported by customers – up 63% on the same period last year. IPO publishes updated...
InterDigital v. Lenovo: royalties without limits
Four weeks after hearing five days of argument, the Court of Appeal delivered a 90-page decision in InterDigital v. Lenovo, dismissing most of the grounds of appeal and cross-appeal. The only significant issue on which the Court of Appeal disagreed with the trial...
India ranks fifth in the global generative AI landscape
India ranks fifth globally in the number of Generative AI (GenAI) patents published between 2014 and 2023, as highlighted in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) recent report. The report Patent Landscape Report on Generative Artificial Intelligence...
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