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Madras High Court Orders Fresh Review of TVS Motor's Patent Plea For Scooter Frame Design
The Madras High Court has overturned a decision by the Patent Office that had denied TVS Motor Company a patent for its "vehicle frame assembly" invention. The court said the Patent Office did not properly examine how the design worked or whether it was truly obvious from earlier technologies.In its ruling dated November 28, 2025, Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said the refusal order did not provide enough reasoning to conclude that TVS Motor's invention lacked originality. Because the...
LiveLawBiz: Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 02, 2025
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Delhi High Court Upholds Rejection Of Patent For Amylin and AstraZeneca's Sustained-Release Diabetes Injection
The Delhi High Court has upheld the Patent Office's refusal to grant Amylin Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals a patent for their sustained-release exenatide injection for diabetes, ruling that the formulation was 'obvious' from existing science and lacked the inventive step required for protection. A single bench of Justice Tejas Karia in an order dated November 24 said that the formulation would be obvious to a skilled person, reading the earlier scientific disclosures, "obvious...
Centre Revamps Patent Penalty Rules; Appeal Period Now Begins On Receipt Of Order Instead of Date Of Order
The Centre government has overhauled the penalty adjudication mechanism under the Patents Rules, 2003 after notifying the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2025, which came into force on November 25, 2025. The amendment substitutes the entire Chapter XIV A -Adjudictaion Of Penalties and Appeals, that had been introduced in 2024 and introduces several procedural changes while retaining the structure of the earlier framework.The most significant change is that the 60 day period for filing an appeal...
US Court Orders EscapeX, Lawyers To Pay Google USD 2.5 Lakh As Cost For Frivolous Patent Suit
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a California court's order requiring a mobile app developer- EscapeX to pay Google more than USD 2.5 lakh in attorneys' fees and costs after finding that the company filed a frivolous patent infringement lawsuit and then tried to prolong the case with an equally baseless post-judgment motion. This included a USD 63,525 that EscapeX and its lawyers must jointly pay for multiplying the proceedings.In a ruling dated November 25, 2025,...
Delhi High Court Quashes Patent Office Order, Sends Trident's 'Air Rich Yarn' Patent Plea Back For Review
The Delhi High Court has overturned a Patent Office decision that refused Trident Limited a patent for its “air rich” yarn and fabric technology. The court said the Patent Office failed to properly examine the key feature of the invention, which is the “homogeneous distribution of pores across the radial cross-section of yarn”, and had not correctly assessed obviousness under Indian patent law. In a judgment dated November 24, 2025, Justice Tejas Karia held that the Patent Office had not...
LiveLawBiz: Business Law Daily Round-Up: November 26, 2025
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Madras High Court Quashes Order Allowing Pfizer To Seek Documents From Indian Drug Manufacturer For US Suit
The Madras High Court has overturned a Single Judge's order that had permitted pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to enforce Letters Rogatory issued by a United States court to obtain documents and testimony from Chennai-based Softgel Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. Letters Rogatory are formal requests sent by a court in one country to a court in another country seeking assistance in gathering evidence for a legal proceedingA division bench of Justice G Jayachandran and Justice Mummineni Sudheer Kumar ruled on...
Delhi High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of Medilabo's Patent For Neurodegenerative-Disease Drug
The Delhi High Court has set aside a Patent Office order refusing Medilabo RFP's patent application for a pharmaceutical composition used in treating neurodegenerative diseases, holding that the authority rejected the application without examining the amended claims and without explaining how the invention fell within the bar on “methods of treatment” under Section 3(i) of the Patents Act, 1970. For context, Section 3(i) of the Patents Act excludes the patenting of methods of diagnosis and...
Madras High Court Asks Patent Office To Re-Evaluate Objections Against Allied Metallurgical's Anti-Stick Coating Patent
The Madras High Court has recently set aside a Patent Office order that refused Hi Tech Chemicals' challenge to an anti-stick coating patent owned by Allied Metallurgical Products, after finding that the authority failed to properly examine the objections raised. The court said that “the quality of obviousness analysis leaves much to be desired” and directed a fresh hearing before a different officer. A single bench of Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, delivering the judgment on November...
India's Trademark Registry Accepts Its First Smell Trademark For Japanese Company's Rose-Scented Tyres
The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks has accepted a Japanese company's application for a “floral fragrance/smell reminiscent of roses applied to tyres”, making it the first smell mark to be accepted for advertisement in India.The order dated November 21, 2025 directs that Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.'s application in Class 12 be advertised on a “proposed to be used basis” as an olfactory mark along with the graphical representation it submitted. Sumitomo filed the...
Bombay High Court Sets Aside Patent Office Rejection, Orders Fresh Consideration of Medical Therapeutic Device Patent
The Bombay High Court has set aside the rejection of a patent application for a medical therapeutic device, directing the Patent Office to reconsider the matter afresh. The court found that the Patent Office had failed to follow mandatory statutory procedures under the Patents Act before refusing the application. A single bench of Justice Arif S Doctor passed the order on November 17, 2025, ruling that the Patent Office's refusal suffered from procedural irregularity and a lack of reasoning. ...