Patent

The Government of India, in its continued effort to decriminalise and rationalise offences and promote trust-based governance to improve the ease of living and doing business, has enacted the Jan Vishwas......

The Delhi High Court has clarified that Indian patent applications cannot be refused solely because approval from the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is pending......

A priority claim in a patent application is crucial in determining novelty and the applicant’s legal rights, and also, critically, helps in ascertaining statutory timelines for filing applications and related documents....

Until 2025, India’s public policy prohibited the grant of patents for inventions relating to atomic energy in order to keep such technologies under Government control....

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded across research, industry, and professional practice, and increasingly contributes to technical problem-solving beyond mere assistance. For patent law, a fundamental question has emerged: .......

A typical patent infringement matter plays out thus: the patent holder / plaintiff sues for patent infringement, along with an application for an interim injunction to stop the infringer ......

Identifying actors in patent infringement requires pinning down the party directly manufacturing a patented product or performing the patented process in question ......

The Indian government has updated the definition, eligibility criteria, recognition process, and compliance framework for startups, and introduced a new category ......

Claim construction is an important aspect of infringement analysis. In several jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and the European Union......