Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increasing amount of co-operation between Big PhRMA companies and Indian generics, mostly in the form of acquisitions such as the Abbot-Piramal deal or the Ranbaxy-Diachi deal. The aim of these deals, for innovator companies, was to build up capacities in the generics sector to cater to the growing market for generic medicines. The growing investment led to a clamour for a ban on 100% foreign direct investment in generic pharmaceutical companies. Apart from such investment, I think (and I’m no expert in these...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Image of E.Coli Bacilli from hereIn a welcome development, the Controller General has made public the feedback that his office received in response to his call for comments on the Draft Guidelines for Examination of Biotechnology Patents. The feedback can be accessed over here on the website of the IPO. Our earlier post on the topic can be accessed over here. Most of the replies were from mainly law firms, specializing in patent prosecution....
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Patent Gurukul and Pravin Gandhi College of Law at Mumbai are hosting a ‘brainstorming’ session on ‘Traditional Knowledge & Biodiversity’ on February 15, 2013. The session will focus on the recent 'Guidelines for Processing of Patent Applications Relating to Traditional Knowledge' and its implications on the Biodiversity Act & Rules. The objective of this exercise as outlined in the press release below: In view of the extreme approach adopted by the government which is highly detrimental to indigenous research, it is proposed to draft...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Image from hereThis week, we come to the readers with the review slightly late and will be covering all the posts in the past 2 weeks since the January Week 1 Review by Sai Vinod. Given the higher number of blog posts to reminisce about, this weekly review won’t have a separate section referring to the global IP happenings this week. It all started with Mathews carrying a detailed and incisive post in 2 parts (here and here) introducing the much-discussed...
As expected, the WTO recently authorised Antigua, a tiny Carribean island, to "cross retaliate" against intellectual property belonging to the United States. What this effectively means is that Antigua qualifies as a "legal" pirate of the Carribean i.e. it can pirate music and movies belonging to US copyright holders, without violating any international norm. (I deliberately use the term "legal" pirate, if only to evoke a strong paradox)."...As...
In a previous post, we had mentioned that the DIPP had notified the changes in the patent agent examination that prescribed a lower weightage to viva than the written examination. Based on this notification, candidates like Renu Rampal (post) could have applied to become patent agents. However, the patent office faced a few practical difficulties in implementing the decision of the Delhi High Court (DHC). The practical difficulty was that if the notification was applied retrospectively, a few candidates (~20)...
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