I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book on Patent Law and Practice by Bharat Law House. The book is available from Amazon.in and Flipkart.com I seek your good wishes and blessings!The table of contents of the book is provided below: Page1-TOC.jpg 4.41 MB Page2-TOC.jpg 4.31 MB I am grateful for the opportunities that have come my way to be able to write something. Continue reading
The Delhi High Court on October 9, 2020 issued its proposed “The HighCourt of Delhi Rules Governing Patent Suits, 2020”. The notification may be accessed here on the Delhi High Court website or from this site: PublicNotice_G3SK9Q0PX99.PDF 223 KB The notification asks members of the Bar to send their comments / suggestions if any, within four weeks, to the office of the Registrar General of this Court by e-mail at jrrules.dhc@gov.in. My comments on the proposed rules may be accessed from here Response to Proposed Rules- RajivChoudhary.pdf 253 KB Continue reading
Shortly before the term of a patent (if granted) would expire, in an ex-parte order issued by the IPAB authored by Justice Manmohan Singh, the IPAB finally granted a patent to Ferid Allani for an application filed almost two-decades ago for an invention relating to ‘A method and device for accessing information sources and services of the web.’ Brief prosecution history of the application – from filing to grant Ferid Allani had an idea and filed a provisional patent application for it on 30.12.1999 in France and it was given the number 99/16704. Thereafter, a PCT application was filed on 29.12.2000 (PCT/FR2000/003759) and it entered India as IN/PCT/2002/00705/DEL on 17.07.2002. As su... Continue reading
In a crisp 10 page unanimous opinion, the US Supreme Court overruled the (unanimous) Federal Circuit decision. The US Supremes held that an “article of manufacture” need not be the end product as was claimed by Apple and agreed with Samsung that the article could be an intermediate product or a component !!! “The Federal Circuit’s narrower reading of ‘article of manufacture’ cannot be squared with the text of §289. The Federal Circuit found that components of the infringing smartphones could not be the relevant article of manufacture because consumers could not purchase those components separately from the smartphones. […] But, for the reasons given above, the term ‘article of m... Continue reading
First posted on spicyip.com on 25.07.2016In an office order issued some time back, our patent office streamlined the numbering of patent applications and request for examinations. This numbering system came into effect from 1st January 2016. The new numbering system is in line with global best practices. This new numbering system provides for patent applications having a 12 character numeric fixed length standard and applicable to all patent offices. The 12 character numeric length also includes Year of Filing, jurisdiction, type of application, and application number. Numering Scheme -I.PNG 52.6 KB Numering Scheme-image2.PNG ... Continue reading